Just in time for Christmas we have something special for you today. With the help of MIFCOM, we were allowed to bin a statistically not insignificant amount of CPUs (over 500 in total) and today we have the evaluation for you to browse through. Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs are the topic today and this time we even covered all overclockable K [...]
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With Raptor Lake, Intel now also ends the era of monolithic processors. This of course comes with another decent performance boost and it will be the purpose of this review to compare the new CPUs with AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 family. That is definitely worthwhile, because Intel would quite like to have the so-called gaming crown back. The [...]
Anyone who buys a new AMD Ryzen 7000, no matter which model, will certainly curse the high temperatures and thus also get annoyed about the usually high power consumption under full load. However, it is very easy to remedy the situation if you know how and also observe a few basics so that the system really remains stable. The reason that the [...]
Today’s article will focus exclusively on the heatspreader of the Ryzen 7000 CPUs and, of course, on cooling, the optimal application of thermal paste and the question of where the nasty hotspots actually are. Not only does the CPU look significantly different from its predecessor, but the Integrated Heatspreader (IHS) also brings with it [...]
AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 desktop CPUs, based on the Zen4 micro-architecture, still use the same chiplet design as their predecessors, with a few small but not negligible changes. Igor already gave details about this in yesterday’s big review. Today we want to look at how to configure the new CPUs as optimally as possible and for this we [...]
AMD let us release tests of the four new Zen 4 CPUs today in the form of the Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X. We have already reported about it for a long time, but now the necessary test samples are finally materializing in the form of the real CPUs, which can provide answers to the many questions that have been [...]
How does Intel actually want to sell the new Raptor Lake CPUs? Today’s sales foils, which I show you as a picture gallery, suggest that the blue foil king sees enough strong arguments to give the sales team the right ammunition. But will all this be enough to still have a progandistic advantage after the launch of the new Ryzen CPUs, or will [...]
A little bit of retro is always interesting so I have an article from the beginnings of igorsLAB for you this time. The APU is now also available very cheap and that is enough for a usable HTPC in the end.
the Intel Alder Lake CPUs with their LGA1700 and Independent Loading Mechanism (ILM) including the bending problem have been around for 9 months now. The successor CPUs aka Raptor Lake might not be long away, but it has already been confirmed that they will use the same socket and thus most likely ILM as well. Existing motherboards with a 600 [...]
Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs with their LGA1700 and Independent Loading Mechanism (ILM) including the bending problem have been around for 9 months now. The successor CPUs aka Raptor Lake might not be long away, but it has already been confirmed that they will use the same socket and thus most likely ILM as well. Existing motherboards with a 600 [...]
Intel Meteor Lake U, P and H – Exclusive block diagram and specs of the mobile 14. Generation | Leak
Intel’s Meteor Lake processors of the 14th generation are scheduled for launch in the second half of 2023, starting with the mobile product line. They will compete against AMD’s Ryzen 7000 family, namely Phoenix and Dragon Range in the notebook and Raphael in the desktop segment. Meteor Lake is already quite far, because there are [...]
So far you know me mainly from the forum as a helper with hardware problems. Since similar questions often come up, Andreas (ApolloX) asked me if we could create some tutorials. I’ll start here with an article about the possibilities Windows itself offers for troubleshooting. If you would like to create tutorials as well, please feel free to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Intel Core i9-12900KS has been on the market for a few weeks now and is, at least on paper, actually just an even more highly selected variant of the i9-12900K with a slightly higher clock and base power out of the box. Enthusiasts argue about whether this is a sensible expansion of the product portfolio. Overclockers are naturally keen on the [...]
Today’s article is not a test, but actually just a teaser and I’ll explain why right away. Yes, I signed the NDA and meanwhile I also have a Ryzen 7 5800X3D. However, this is not a usual (rotation) sample from AMD, but a real retail CPU and bought myself. For this reason, too, I find myself somewhat conflicted. Actually, I wanted to [...]
Even though AMD has not explicitly sampled the new old Ryzen CPUs with Zen3 core, many of the new CPUs have already reached retailers. The top model, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D (8 cores, 16 threads, up to 4.5 GHz, 4 MiB L2 cache, 96 MiB L3 cache) should become available in rather homeopathic doses with an MSRP of about 450 dollars. Our own inquiry to [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
At the moment Yuri is doing well under the circumstances and he already wrote you in his letter that he tries to compensate many of the current events by work, as long as electricity and bombardment by Russian bombs and missiles allow it. However, he will continue to work as long as he is able and also impement Zen 4 in Hydra. Zen 4 also supports [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
What do you do with two Core i9-12900K trays? That’s right, binning! Today we have a very special treat for you from the south of Germany. The system integrator MIFCOM has kindly provided us with a large amount of Alder Lake i9 CPUs so that we can put them through their paces and examine them for differences in clock speed. Originally, the [...]
The occasion is sad enough, but today I would like to let my friend Yuri speak, who despite the siege and large-scale destruction of his hometown Kharkiv by the fascist invaders under the orders of Putin has not lost his courage. He has taken the time, despite all adverse circumstances and dangers, to address to you, as readers of this site and [...]