Do you use an external SSD? We will be testing a few NVMe-enabled enclosures in the future. That’s in order to see which solution shapes SSD characteristics in what way, where speed (SSD) will always be limited by USB connectivity (and maybe sometimes cooling?). The first such external SSD enclosure that we will discuss in detail is from Axagon – the 10-gigabit EEM2-GTR model. Read more “Axagon EEM2-GTR: Well-finned enclosure (USB-C) for SSDs”
It was supposed to be just a few days until the arrival of the expected Zen 5 AMD CPUs. Their desktop version was supposed to come out at the end of the current month (July 31), but surprisingly, we now learn that the release was postponed at the very last minute. Fortunately, it doesn’t look like a big delay, but it is a bit worrying that it is supposedly due to issues caught in last minute testing this late into the launch preparations. Read more “Ryzen 9000 delayed due to last-minute problems”
Last week, we covered the clock speeds of Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 CPUs. Now another information leak uncovered what clock speeds possibly reached by the Arrow Lake processors from Intel. This is an important piece of the puzzle, as we already know what the IPC of their cores will be, but the clock speeds were a big unknown, given how the new wider architecture and TSMC’s 3nm node could have drastically lowered them. And with that, the performance. Read more “Leak gives a peek at the clock speed of Intel Arrow Lake CPUs”
Primarily for the needs of very small computer systems, Arctic has expanded its range of low-profile fans. It did this with the P8 Slim PWM PST, which is not only low-profile, it keeps its dimensions smaller in the remaining two axes as well. With 80 mm it copies well, for example, minimalist cases for Raspberry Pi and similar single-board computers. This small fan has a blade count above Arctic’s standards. Read more “Low profile in 80mm format. Arctic released the P8 Slim PWM PST”
Soon it will be six months since the issue with game crashes on 13th and 14th generation Intel Core CPUs came to be widely known. Intel largely keeps silent while looking for the root cause, but the issue is unfortunately still ongoing, and not at all rare. This has now been substantiated by an investigation of YouTube channel Level1Techs, which says that as many as tens of percent of processors are displaying these problems. Read more “Stability issues and crashes affect large part of Raptor Lake CPUs”
Well, the time has finally come this year, as a few weeks ago Noctua introduced the long-awaited NH-D15 G2 cooler, which has seen years of development, optimizations, and delays. Expectations are so extremely high and I myself am curious if we will see a new king among coolers. A really interesting battle awaits us, because in the meantime, several high-end coolers have appeared on the market, which the NH-D15 G2 will have to beat. Read more “Noctua NH-D15 G2 – Meeting all our expectations?”
When AMD announced the Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs with Zen 5 architecture at Computex 2024 back in early June, the company already revealed full specifications including the clock speeds. The boost clock speeds given for the highest model turned out to be the same as with Zen 4 (5.7 GHz for the Ryzen 7950X), but that wasn’t quite the final answer. As in previous generations, the maximum clock speed is actually higher than the official number. Read more “Ryzen 9000 can boost to higher clock than the official spec says”
The number of graphics cards tested over the recent period has reached a number after which we can pause a bit and specifically focus on the noise level of their coils. The latter has always been recorded in standard measurements, but in large tests with lots of other information, this unique data was getting lost. That is why it will now, within the scope of this article, be limited to these only. So which of the modern graphics cards has the quieter coils? Read more ““All” graphics cards in in-depth coil whine analysis”
Information on Intel’s new generation of desktop processors, the Arrow Lake family is gradually making its way online. So far, Intel has only publicly revealed and detailed the mobile version called Lunar Lake, which has a various important innovations, including a powerful NPU that can power the so-called Copilot+ PCs with Microsoft’s AI features. Arrow Lake is their desktop version of Lunar Lake, but will lack many of these new features. Read more “Many Lunar Lake innovations won’t make it to Arrow Lake CPUs”
We recently covered the I/O capabilities of Intel’s new processors for laptops and the LGA 1851 desktop platform, due to replace today’s LGA 1700 boards and Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors in October. However, that was the full features that apply to the more pricy boards based on Z890 chipsets. But Intel will once again resort to segmentation and the cheaper boards will be cut down in various ways, sometimes by quite a bit. Read more “Intel Arrow Lake chipsets: Z890/B860/H810 specs and differences”
This is a first – a fan with the leading edges of the impeller blades on the opposite side to normal ones. This is primarily done for a better view of “fans without stator struts” in cases with glass side panels. In addition, such an unconventional design also has quite clear and measurable advantages and disadvantages, also in terms of functional characteristics. Let’s take everything in turn. Read more “Asus TUF Gaming TR120 (ARGB) Reverse: A nicer look? Yes, but…”
Intel should finally release a generation of its discrete “Battlemage” graphics cards with Xe2 HPG architecture later this year, but it will be competing with AMD’s Radeon RX 8000 and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5000 cards for most of its lifetime. It does look like Intel will have one advantage on its side, though – Battlemage will be on the same manufacturing node, and at least that way it won’t be disadvantaged right off the bat. Read more “Intel Arc Battlemage discrete GPUs use TSMC’s 4nm node”
After Computex, a report surfaced that the Zen 5 version of 3D V-Cache processors coming after the standard Ryzen 9000 models could have interesting extra features over previous generations, which was mentioned by company rep Donny Woligrosky. What exactly it will be, however, has not been said. It seems that the news could be the possibility of overclocking these CPUs, which has been missing until now due to the 3D chiplets. Read more “Big change for 3D V-Cache. Ryzen 9000X3D to be overclockable”
Close up of the new Noctua NF-A14x25r G2 PWM fan and its first tests. However, consider these as material for a “rough idea”, since as you already know, the pilot 140 mm LCP fans have atypical mounting holes for their format, so their mounting to the wind tunnel was necessarily non-standard. However, a few things can be concluded from these partial measurements as well. Read more “Details of the Noctua NF-A14x25r G2 PWM fan + minitest”
As reported, mobile Zen 5 processors, the Ryzen AI 300, will be a bit delayed to the end of July. It raised the question of whether the desktop CPUs with Zen 5 cores, i.e. the Ryzen 9000 models, might also be delayed. The answer seems to have been found – a certain Slovenian online store has now included the Ryzen 9000 in its catalog. And it shows not only the date of availability, but also the prices, which are quite interesting. Read more “Ryzen 9000 to actually be cheaper than the previous generation?”
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. You can compete (and eventually win something) on a regular basis, with a new challenge every month. But for now, you need to get “to the next round” through the next one, in July. Read more “Axagon Riddle (7/2024). Can you guess what’s in the photo?”
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