Axagon riddles. Here are the most successful solvers

Giveaway, News | | Editors

The year-long effort is behind you. Month after month you have been wondering what Axagon product is hiding in its (photo)detail shown in the available photo. We are pleased by the really high participation, although the evaluation was not easy at all. The challenge was not only whether you answered correctly, but also in what time it was. The podium was taken by the fastest people who didn’t get it wrong even once. Read more “Axagon riddles. Here are the most successful solvers” »

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K vs. AMD R5 9600X or… R7 9700X?

Extra tests, Processors | | Ľubomír Samák

The lowest “K” model of the Intel Arrow Lake CPU family benefits, like its predecessors, from a large number of cores. Unlike them, it doesn’t have Hyper Threading, but it doesn’t lag behind compute-wise, and the Core Ultra 5 245K is more efficient. However, it’s not enough to rival the Ryzen 9000s. Not at high performance. In medium workloads, typical of gaming PCs, however, the situation turns around. Read more “Intel Core Ultra 5 245K vs. AMD R5 9600X or… R7 9700X?” »

Intel Officially Announced the Arc B580 and B570 Battlemage

Graphics, News | | Adam Vágner

Yesterday, Intel officially unveiled two initial models of the new generation of Arc graphics cards. Their chips use an architecture codenamed Battlemage, and one of key advantages is expected to be a strong price-to-performance ratio in the lower mid-range segment. They offer significant improvements over the previous generation in nearly every aspect and introduce alternatives to most competing technologies Intel has lacked in previous lineup. Read more “Intel Officially Announced the Arc B580 and B570 Battlemage” »

Intel Battlemage is here, Arc B580 and B570 out next week

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

A few days ago, stores leaked the Intel’s next-gen Arc B580 “Battlemage” graphics card, which should go on sale in December. And now it seems to have been confirmed, the release date has been leaked as well as the fact that there won’t be just one Battlemage card. Intel is preparing two or three SKUs. Or at least for now, because more powerful models may still be added later, the fate of those is not very clear right now. Read more “Intel Battlemage is here, Arc B580 and B570 out next week” »

DeepCool Assassin IV VC Vision – Cubed perfection

Cooling, CPU coolers, Extra tests | | Pavel Sekerka

DeepCool’s Assassin IV and Assassin 4S coolers performed exceedingly well in our reviews. Now another variant of this cooler is about to be released, the Assassin IV VC Vision, which has a redesigned base built around the vapor chamber principle. This should provide more efficient and faster heat dissipation from the CPU. So let’s see how this cooler performs in stress tests and whether it will carve out a place in the elite club of high-end coolers. Read more “DeepCool Assassin IV VC Vision – Cubed perfection” »

Axagon Riddle (12/2024). Can you guess what’s in the photo?

Giveaway, News | | Editors

In cooperation with Axagon, we have prepared a cyclical activity for this year, which may be of interest to HWCooling readers. We’ll post a detail of some piece of hardware and you can guess what it is. We are nearing the final round, where you’ll need to correctly solve the last, December riddle. After that, the evaluation of your efforts for the whole year 2024 and the well-deserved rewards will finally arrive. Read more “Axagon Riddle (12/2024). Can you guess what’s in the photo?” »

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K: #1 in multi-threaded tasks even without HT

Extra tests, Processors | | Ľubomír Samák

A new CPU has taken the throne of absolute performance – the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K. Yes, it’s a tight race, it’s with higher power consumption and lower efficiency, but that’s a necessary tax to pay for that “absolute peak”. Sure, someone will gladly sacrifice that leadership in favor of better operating characteristics, but either way, the 24-core CPU is the one that sets the pace in compute tasks on a mainstream platform. In this case, it’s Intel LGA 1851. Read more “Intel Core Ultra 9 285K: #1 in multi-threaded tasks even without HT” »

GeForce RTX 5090 gets Chinese D version, no performance reduction

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

A year ago, due to US sanctions aimed at limiting China’s access to powerful AI acceleration, Nvidia began selling the cut-down RTX 4090D instead of the GeForce RTX 4090 in that market because the high-end gaming GPU was already crossing the performance limits imposed. As expected, the new Blackwell generation will face the same problem and Nvidia is preparing a special RTX 5090D Chinese SKU, but reportedly with full performance. Read more “GeForce RTX 5090 gets Chinese D version, no performance reduction” »

PC Cooling Guide: Heating Up Ryzen 9 7950 X in Cinebench

Cooling, Extra tests, PC cases | | Adam Vágner

Today, we’ll focus on what happens inside a case when a CPU is under heavy load. We’ll run a Cinebench 2024 rendering on a Ryzen R9 7950X cooled by a Noctua NH-D15 G2 air cooler with AM5 offset mounting bars and see how it affects the temperatures and how all the values change with different settings of the system fans’ performance across their entire operating speed range. Read more “PC Cooling Guide: Heating Up Ryzen 9 7950 X in Cinebench” »

DeepCool: LQ AIOs respond better to CPU hotspots

Cooling, CPU coolers, News | | Ľubomír Samák

Claims of stricter coldplate optimizations to dissipate heat from the CPU as quickly as possible are also making their way into liquid coolers. These include new AIOs with an innovative microchannel structure that could help current CPUs and cool them down to lower temperatures. DeepCool will take this on with two liquid coolers (LQ) in the two most widely used formats. Read more “DeepCool: LQ AIOs respond better to CPU hotspots” »

Intel Core Ultra 7 265K: Often more efficient than Ryzen 7 9700X

Extra tests, Processors | | Ľubomír Samák

Intel Arrow Lake desktop CPUs have undergone a significant change on many levels. Aside from the new performance (P) and efficient (E) core architectures, they are now chiplet-based and have stopped using Hyper Threading, for example. At the same time, the power consumption is lower and the Core Ultra 7 265K CPU is often more power efficient compared to the competition. This even in games, which we haven’t seen before. Read more “Intel Core Ultra 7 265K: Often more efficient than Ryzen 7 9700X” »

Intel plans its own 3D V-Cache, but not for gaming CPUs

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

AMD processors are now the performance leaders in games (people likely didn’t see this coming, back in the early Ryzen days), thanks in large part to 3D V-Cache technology boosting the L3 cache capacity to 96MB, which can hold a good part of game’s hot data. It makes sense to expect Intel to come up with something similar to catch up to AMD. After all, they once had something similar in the form of Broadwell processors with eDRAM. Read more “Intel plans its own 3D V-Cache, but not for gaming CPUs” »

SSD reaches 122TB capacity, beating largest HDD by four times

News, SSDs | | Jan Olšan

Not so long ago, one could wonder how long it would take SSDs to overtake hard disk drives in capacity. It’s a while since that has happened, but the capacity of electronic storage based on NAND Flash memory continues to grow at a much faster rate than that of magnetic platters. While WD and Seagate have only just passed the 30TB capacity mark, SSDs now offer four times that. The price per unit of capacity, however, will be somewhere else. Read more “SSD reaches 122TB capacity, beating largest HDD by four times” »

MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi: Basis in above-standard features

Extra tests, Motherboards | | Ľubomír Samák

Two network adapters, over twenty USB ports, a really powerful VRM… in short, a motherboard for those with more demands than usual. The X870E Carbon WiFi is also rich in connectivity thanks to the two chips that make up the chipset’s south bridge. Overall, this makes it a very well equipped motherboard for the AMD AM5 platform that is more expensive, but you still don’t have to pay a devastating amount for it. Read more “MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi: Basis in above-standard features” »

Arctic Freezer 4U SP5 details: A “two for one” cooler

Cooling, CPU coolers, Preview | | Ľubomír Samák

Arctic’s new cooler – the Freezer 4U SP5 – is a bit different from the coolers we normally cover. It’s designed for the high-end AMD SP5 platform, which is reflected in its unconventional base. At first glance, it looks like the cooler has two bases, and in fact, its entire structure is reminiscent of two mainstream Freezer coolers stuck together. Such a design makes sense though. Read more “Arctic Freezer 4U SP5 details: A “two for one” cooler” »

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