Intel Alder Lake S – Power consumption myths and no end

I had already discussed the behavior of the new Intel CPUs on different motherboards a few days ago, but the whole thing didn’t leave me alone in the end. The measured differences, especially on the OC boards, were big enough not to book them as measurement tolerance and also reproducible, but then not big enough to explain the partly very [...]


Intel Alder Lake Test: When motherboard settings affect the power consumption and temperature of the CPU | Practice

Are you still amazed about the so different power consumption values at the different launch reviews of Intel’s Alder Lake? In the meantime I have the data of a second motherboard model and I could hardly find any deviations to my measurements. The second board is an MSI MAG Z690 Carbon Wifi, which positions itself one price and performance [...]


Intel Core i9-12900K(F), Core i7-12700K and Core i5-12600K Review – Gaming in really fast and really frugal | Part 1

Intel in fast AND economical? Yes, since the 12th. Generation, i.e. Alder Lake S, this also fits together again. And so today’s text effectively becomes the narrative for a kind of turnaround, for which Intel can really only be congratulated if it is objectively tested and everything is properly classified. Since this was connected with some [...]


20 reasons to take a deep breath after Intel’s Alder Lake announcement

Yes, the 1700 pins are all still on, so there is nothing mechanical standing in the way of the benchmarks for now. Because euphoric slides are only half the battle, a buy tip, on the other hand, has to be honestly fought for. So let’s take a look and also look forward to something. And to make sure that the time until the test date on 04.11 [...]