For quite a while now, we’ve had HDMI 2.1 support in graphics cards as well as monitors and TVs (since the GeForce RTX 3000 and Radeon 6000). While monitor and TV resolutions haven’t grown that much still only going up to 8K, refresh rates have been on the rise. And their demands should be addressed by a new version of TV and monitor output interface that’s on its way now – HDMI 2.2. Read more “HDMI 2.2 is coming. Higher data bandwidth, but also new cables”
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”
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”
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”
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?”
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”
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”
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”
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”
One of the new features of the DeepCool liquid coolers that are about to go on sale will be new fans. Lighted Fans (ARGB). These will make their debut on the LP series liquid coolers. But the pump is new as well, and overall it looks like it may be a nice evolution of liquid coolers with ARGB fans and a lighted CPU block. One of the strengths of the block is a display with more large pixels that can be customized in different ways. Read more “DeepCool has new liquid coolers (LP) with new fans”
Although very low, we did observe some vibration even with the Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 PWM fans. However, one question still remains unanswered, namely, how much range can there be in the observed vibrations across samples. We will focus on this in the coming weeks, and you can make your own guesses about the range of vibrations. The most accurate of you will then win… yes, the Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 PWM. Read more “Take a guess: How do Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 PWM fans vibrate?”
There’s perception that AMD releases CPU rather early and tweaks the platform (firmware, drivers and other things) after the release. Performance improves as time goes on, but on the other hand, it’s not at 100% at the beginning. Ryzen 9000 really put this on display, but it looks like Intel may be the same story this year. Core Ultra 200S CPUs have allegedly not shown their real power and will get faster. Will that turn the tide? Read more “Intel: Arrow lake will get AMD-style post-launch performance fixes”
The AMD AM4 platform has a reputation for longevity. For most, it goes back to 2017 an the first Ryzen, but it’s even been used with Excavator APUs in 2016. It supports CPUs and APUs all the way up to the 2020/2021 Ryzen 5000, meaning that three Zen architecture generations of Zen can be used, which has keept older motherboards relevant way longer than is usual. It looks like AM5 platform owners will be similarly lucky. Read more “AMD CPUs with Zen 6 architecture will still use the AM5 socket”
No new GPUs from Nvidia are expected to hit the market this year with the new products will be revealed in January (at CES 2025). But one possibly important premiere in the world of gaming GPUs is still slated to happen this year – Intel’s new Arc desktop GPUs, the Battlemage architecture, will be released. It looks surprisingly good in the mobile Lunar Lake processors, so Arc “Battlemage” desktop graphics cards might finally be worth it. Read more “Intel’s new Arc “Battlemage” gaming GPUs coming out next month”
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 November. Read more “Axagon Riddle (11/2024). Can you guess what’s in the photo?”
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