Category - CPU

Intel Core i9-11900K, Core i7-11700K, Core i5-11600K and Core i9-10900K vs. Zen3 – Last man standing in silicon

Now the time has finally come and the other CPUs of the 11th generation may also tested and the results published. I also deliberately decided against an early release of the Core i7-11700K, which is already available in stores, because only in direct comparison and with the micro code for a new BIOS, which was only added a few days ago, will it [...]


What Ryzen 6000 performance could theoretically look like | Investigative with the MSI B550 Unify-X

Ryzen has been known to be a gluey matter since Zen 2, though not in a conventional way. AMD has been combining CCX chiplets with IO chiplets into one CPU since the Ryzen 3000 series and the glue is the package in the form of copper and fiberglass. Today, we are seperating the glued components of two such CPUs and glueing them back together to [...]


Update RC5 – Clock Tuner for Ryzen 2.0 Tutorial and Download – New version with support for Ryzen 5000, Hybrid OC and Phoenix Mode

Update from 09.03.2021 – CTR 2.0 RC5 Lower reference frequency values for Zen3 (extra safety when pressing the TUNE button) The number of attempts to contact the SMU is increased from 5 to 10 Testing Mode – only AVX Light (fixed a bug where it was possible to unlock this switcher) Update from 04.03.2021 – CTR 2.0 RC4 As we [...]


Is a 500 W PSU really enough? An AMD Radeon RX 6800 and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 against a be quiet! Pure Power 11 500 W | Practice

You’ve seen a lot of things, even on YouTube. For example, a 500 watt power supply miraculously survives even a GeForce RTX 3080, while exactly this card even forced a 1300 watt Platinum behemoth to give up in the lab before the Ampere launch. Well, NVIDIA has meanwhile defused the boost and thus also the load changes, but that should still [...]


AMD Ryzen 5000 ‘Zen 3’ desktop CPUs and X570 motherboards are said to have high failure rates and DOA, according to PowerGPU

AMD’s Zen3 architecture Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs and matching X570 motherboards are popular, sell like hotcakes, and are also considered one of AMD’s best CPU lineups because they offer a lot of performance.But where there is a lot of light, there also seems to be the first shadows, if you follow the reports on Twitter and Reddit [...]


AMD’s RYZEN and EPYC CPUs with Zen 4 in 5nm and with over 25% more IPC and 40% more overall performance than Zen 3?

Now that Zen 3 has been out for some time, one naturally wonders about AMD’s next-generation CPU architecture for the Ryzen and EPYC CPUs, i.e. Zen 4 carries. Latest rumors now say that there will be another huge IPC jump and massive performance increase over the current processors. The s latest rumor on this topic comes from ChipsandCheese [...]


Intel officially denies the compatibility of the new 11. generation desktop CPUs (Rocket Lake) on motherboards with B460 and H410 chipset

Intel has announced that the 11. It is expected that the 3rd generation Rocket Lake desktop CPUs will not be compatible with the existing B460 and H410 based motherboards. According to Intel, the new CPUs will only be officially supported on Z490 & H470 motherboards, while the more budget-oriented offerings will have to stay out. However [...]


ClockTuner for Ryzen (CTR) Cleaner – The tool for the tool

Since there were some irritations at the beginning, also in connection with older installations, a special CTR-Cleaner is now available for download, which deletes the old entries from the registry under ” %LOCALAPPDATA%/A, %LOCALAPPDATA%/Nemesis_UIv2″ reliably. Please note: The program should be run as administrator (right click and [...]