Today I want to talk about a guilty pleasure of mine, the overclocking of RAM, more precisely DDR5 and its timings. There is a strange difference between the specifications of JEDEC, the standard’s committee, and the Intel specifications of the Alder Lake CPUs of the 12th generation. And even though the exact functionality of the individual [...]
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Today we’ll take a look at GEEKOM’s mini-PC, which looks very similar to Intel’s NUC systems on the outside, a self-proclaimed new star in the sky of microcomputers. Although they say they were founded in 2003, this is the first system from this brand. So the whole thing is worth a closer look, more on that in the article below [...]
Last week, AMD announced a few more details about its Ryzen 7000 CPU lineup, codenamed Raphael, and still corrected or corrected others. Thus, AMD confirmed that the TDP of its top Ryzen 7000 CPUs will actually be 170 W, while the maximum package power of the AM5 (LGA 1718) socket may even reach 230 W. The company also confirmed that the gaming [...]
You could almost think that today there would be another review of the NZXT H1, which recently got a revised version, but no, this is about the Revolt 3 case from HYTE, a brand of the system dealer iBUYPOWER, which looks similar at first glance. According to their own statement, they want to “show their commitment to the DIY market.” [...]
The H7 Elite is NZXT’s new ATX premium case and promises luxurious features in a classy guise. We will find out whether this is the case in today’s test. As is well known, everyone can tell a lot when the day is long. The H7 Elite is one of three versions launched on 5/25/2022. The other two are called H7 and H7 Flow, and the prices [...]
The LGA1700 socket, which Intel introduced for the 12th generation of their Core CPUs last November, is known to have one or two problems with bending hardware. For context, I recommend our other two posts if you haven’t read them already. But in short, the problem is that the clamping force of the ILM (Integrated Loading Mechanism) is [...]
SK Hynix 16 Gbit M-Die is known to be the holy grail in terms of DDR5 overclocking, at least at time of writing. The prices for the fastest kits with clock rates in the XMP profile of over 6000 Mbps are still quite expensive. However, if you dare to work on the clock and timings of the RAM yourself anyway, cheaper kits with the same ICs are an [...]
Qualified Vendor Lists, or QVL for short, are probably familiar to anyone who has looked for a suitable pairing of motherboard and RAM kit. Since RAM kits with an XMP profile are not covered by the official specifications of the CPU manufacturers (Intel or AMD), motherboard and RAM manufacturers test the compatibility between their products [...]
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It's Sunday again, and yet there's still light in the lab. Certain things are coming up next week, and so the Sunday photo series will fill exactly the gap that hours of benchmarks tear into the normal article budget. A human being is not an amoeba and cell division only works in prison. So it's best for the community to relax a bit [...]
In today's workvlog I show you again a Mini ITX system, saved with a full custom watercooling in the smallest space and the complete installation history. And yes, in the tightest of spaces you also need very jointed fingers as well as a tiny bit of stamina and a lot of patience. And what else do you need? That's right: a suitable housing [...]
There have been several Black Editions or Extreme Editions at Intel in the past, but Grey Editions? This marks the strict exclusivity for the Chinese market, at least in the case of the i5-12490F CPU. The grey sheep in Intel’s Alder Lake product family is thus a real rarity in the western market, and that alone is reason enough for me to do [...]
The starting point of the misery was a mini-ITX build with custom water cooling. All of this is fully in line with the trend, and the fact that EKWB got it this time with the cooler used is just a coincidence. The manufacturer has included an extremely stable backplate in the scope of delivery, which is very praiseworthy in itself, and which is [...]
We have already discussed the topic of load peaks with the upcoming graphics cards including PCIe 5.0 as well as the new ATX 3.0 standard and Intel’s statements on this topic in detail several times. But since in the end no one really knows what to do with all these standards and theory in their own practice, my friend Aris (Dr. Aristeidis [...]
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In the gaming tests I even got carried away with a certain euphoria, especially in terms of efficiency. Now the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has to prove what it is really capable of in normal applications of my workstation – aside for gaming. And this is exactly where the gray everyday life quickly catches up with you again. To say it up front: it [...]
G.SKILL is constantly expanding its portfolio of DDR5 offerings. While a 2x 32 GB SKU with 6000 CL30 was added just a few weeks ago, the smaller but even faster 2x 16 GB 6600 CL34 kit is officially announced today. This is yet another variant of the well-known Trident Z5 design, which will be available in black and silver, with and without RGB, as [...]
To say it in advance: The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is AMD’s almost condescending gesture of nonchalance to make use of an Epyc chiplet (“Milan”) with 3D-V cache as a “secondary purpose”, pack it into a normal consumer CPU and “purely by chance” send Intel’s waffle toast in the form of the completely [...]
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