Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU benchmarks leaked: Faster than the Apple M1 Max, AMD’s 5980HX and Intel’s 11980HK are downright eaten up

I have something very interesting for my readers today and I am taking over the article from my friend Usman Pirzada more or less in the original, so I have also put him as the actual author. After all, it’s his work and not mine. Surely a simple quote and the usual paraphrasing of a news story wouldn’t have been fair enough there [...]


Intel already practicing IHS manufacturing for Alder Lake – late and early Rocket Lake CPUs compared

A few weeks before the launch of the upcoming Alder Lake CPU generation, Intel seems to be already experimenting with new Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS) manufacturing processes on Rocket Lake CPUs. Noticeable differences between a recently acquired model and a launch sample already give the first visual signs of a new manufacturing process. The [...]


Faster than light? Definetely not with the memory – Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Tachyon test with teardown and overclocking

Gigabyte’s Z590 Aorus Tachyon, unlike many other Rocket Lake XOC (Extreme Overclocking)  motherboards, has been available virtually since the platform’s launch, albeit in fairly limited quantities. A 2-DIMM topology optimized for RAM overclocking, ample power supply and OC features en masse are supposed to squeeze out the absolute [...]


Intel Core i9-12900K, i9-12900F and i5-12400 – Pictures of the new Alder Lake CPUs and details about HGS (Hardware Guided Scheduling)

The latest high-resolution images of an engineering sample of the Intel Core i9-12900K have now been leaked by Yuuki_AnS. The leaker obtained this chip, which was sold on the Chinese black market for a starting price of $700. These images give us a slightly better impression of the Intel Core i9-12900K as “ES2” (Engineering Sample 2) [...]


DDR5, is that you? – Kingston Fury Renegade DDR4-5333 CL20 2x 8 GB RAM kit test with teardown and overclocking

As CPUs become faster and faster, the main memory must be able to keep up with the volume of data to not become a bottleneck. For the same reason, the upcoming generation of Intel CPUs will also rely on the new DDR5 standard, which is supposed to bring more bandwidth through higher clock speed and at the expense of latency compared to DDR4. With [...]


Realtek ALC 4080 with sound cuts and random noise also at the line out and after the update – causes and a first workaround!

You can find the Realtek ALC4080/4082, which was already launched in 2020, as a sound solution on many new Intel boards of the middle and upper class and due to a certain feature, which is also due to the saving of Intel SKUs, you get new problems at the same time. The problems with the SPDIF (optical output), which have already been fixed by a [...]


The highest-end OC platform for Intel? – EVGA Z590 Dark motherboard review with teardown and overclocking

EVGA’s Z590 Dark is probably one of the most sought-after XOC motherboards for the current generation of Intel CPUs, not least because of its uncompromising design, legendary reputation and limited availability of its predecessors. Whether EVGA has created a worthy successor with the project name “E599” to also fire Intel’s [...]