Category: News

AMD plans Threadrippers with 3D V-Cache, X3D APUs coming too

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

AMD has launched the Ryzen 7 9800X3D with second-generation 3D V-Cache technology with a large cache in an extra chipset, which makes it a good (currently the best) CPU for gaming. But this technology is now likely to be deployed more widely. It’s apparently coming to high-performance Threadripper processors for the first time, and could even appear in APUs, i.e. mobile processors for laptops, perhaps as Infinity Cache for their GPUs. Read more “AMD plans Threadrippers with 3D V-Cache, X3D APUs coming too” »

HWCooling polo shirts? Yes, and a few pieces for you too

News | | Editors

If you like things associated with your favourite brand, you might be interested in our polo shirts with HWC logos. They were primarily created for the HWCooling Techtour events as “pinnies”, but we have a few left over. Whether there will be enough for the biggest fans remains to be seen. Anyway, you can now purchase polo shirts and support the operation (and development) of HWCooling.net magazine. Read more “HWCooling polo shirts? Yes, and a few pieces for you too” »

Raspberry Pi releases its own SSD for RPi 5, adds PCIe 3.0 support

News, SSDs | | Jan Olšan

Raspberry Pi started as a small foundation, but since then it has created several boards and modules, its own “keyboard PC”, peripherals and is starting to develop its own chips. RPi traditionally used memory cards as the storage, but the latest version has NVMe SSD support, so now comes the logical thing to do: Raspberry Pi is releasing its own SSD, although this time it is not in-house product, the module is manufactured externally. Read more “Raspberry Pi releases its own SSD for RPi 5, adds PCIe 3.0 support” »

LGA 1851: On CPU bending, RL-ILM and contact frames support

CPU coolers, Motherboards, News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

The just launched Arrow Lake processors do bring a new platform and the LGA 1851 socket, but that doesn’t mean incompatibility with coolers. Although Arrow Lake has more contacts, the processor size and mounting holes have remained the same, so all the coolers compatible with the LGA 1700 socket will keep working. However, there is one thing Arrow Lake is not compatible with – aftermarket socket mods used to prevent CPU bending. Read more “LGA 1851: On CPU bending, RL-ILM and contact frames support” »

Finally cheaper SSDs: A period of falling prices is coming

News, SSDs | | Jan Olšan

SSD pricing has been unfavorable form most of the year, with storage becoming more and more expensive ever since the second half of 2023. Fortunately, it seems that the cycle is finally over and prices will hopefully start falling again, according to the SSD market forecast for the last quarter of the year published by market research outfit TrendForce, which has been tracking DRAM and NAND (and with them, entire SSDs) prices for a long time. Read more “Finally cheaper SSDs: A period of falling prices is coming” »

Asus NitroPath: Improved DIMM slots boost RAM speed by 400 MHz

Memory, Motherboards, News | | Jan Olšan

New X870E motherboards for AMD processors and Z890 boards for the new Intel Core Ultra 200S processors are now coming to the market. There will be one new feature on Asus boards that is supposed to improve the performance of RAM. It’s a new DIMM slot design that may not look any different on the outside, but has improvements that should allow DDR5 to overclock to higher clock speeds with better signal quality for more stable operation. Read more “Asus NitroPath: Improved DIMM slots boost RAM speed by 400 MHz” »

Ryzen 7 9800X3D launches right after Arrow Lake. 5.2 GHz all-core?

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

It looks like AMD is planning to proverbially rain on Intel’s parade around the new Arrow Lake desktop processors (Core Ultra 200S). Rumors lately say that AMD will release Zen 5 derived gaming “X3D” processors, which could conquer the throne of the fastest gaming CPU, just after the competitor’s launch. According to the latest reports, they will really come shortly after Arrow Lake and with better clock speeds than what “X3D” Zen 4 achieved. Read more “Ryzen 7 9800X3D launches right after Arrow Lake. 5.2 GHz all-core?” »

APX and AVX10 in two years? Intel to introduce them in Nova Lake

News, Processors, Technology | | Jan Olšan

Last year, Intel unveiled plans for improving the x86 platform and instruction set, on which virtually all PC CPUs (from Intel, AMD, China’s Zhaoxin) are based: The APX extension, which breaks through the limitations in the number of registers (somewhat mitigating ARM’s advantage), and AVX10, which is the successor or evolution of AVX-512. For a long time it was unclear when these innovations would ship, but now we finally know. Read more “APX and AVX10 in two years? Intel to introduce them in Nova Lake” »

Core Ultra 200S „Arrow Lake“: New Intel desktop CPUs are here

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Intel unveiled the Core Ultra 200S series CPUs yesterday. Intel’s long-awaited new desktop processor platform is coming with the LGA 1851 socket, replacing LGA 1700 and the problem-plagued Raptor Lake CPUs. And this new platform is one of the bigger changes in the company’s history. In addition to improved connectivity, it features chiplet tiles with 3D packaging for the first time. And for the first time, Intel’s CPU is fabbed at TSMC. Read more “Core Ultra 200S „Arrow Lake“: New Intel desktop CPUs are here” »

Current Endorfy coolers already support Intel LGA 1851 socket

Cooling, CPU coolers, News | | Jan Olšan

Today, the new generation of Intel’s desktop processors, the Core Ultra 200 (or Series 2), also codenamed Arrow Lake, was officially unveiled. These will be Intel’s first chiplet desktop CPUs, and once again use a new socket, the LGA 1851, which is physically different from the existing ones. However, cooler compatibility should be a solved problem – Endorfy coolers, for example, already have support for the new socket. Read more “Current Endorfy coolers already support Intel LGA 1851 socket” »

Do you still have to use Intel Default Settings with Raptor Lake?

Motherboards, News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Last week, Intel announced discovery of another source exposing desktop Raptor Lake processors (Core 13th and 14th generation) to high voltage that leads to irreversible damage and instability. But there’s one more thing: The company says that to protect your CPU from damage, you should use the so-called Intel Default Settings that restrict power limits. So is the CPU in danger without them, and does disabling them risk degrading? Read more “Do you still have to use Intel Default Settings with Raptor Lake?” »

Axagon Riddle (10/2024). 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. 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 October. Read more “Axagon Riddle (10/2024). Can you guess what’s in the photo?” »

CUDIMM will work on AM5, MSI says, Ryzen 9000 or 8000 needed

Memory, Motherboards, News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Recently, we reported that the Intel LGA 1851 platform with Core Ultra 200 (“Arrow Lake”) processors will premiere certain memory innovation – CUDIMM modules that have an integrated clock driver (CKD) that enables operation at (hopefully) higher clock speeds. It was unclear for a while whether this would end up being an Intel exclusive feature, but now it looks like CUDIMMs will be usable on AM5 boards with Ryzen processors as well. Read more “CUDIMM will work on AM5, MSI says, Ryzen 9000 or 8000 needed” »

Intel catching up with Radeons? Battlemage GPUs will clock high

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Intel is expected to launch the second generation Arc gaming graphics cards late this year, or early 2025. Their Alchemist generation suffered from various flaws (high idle power consumption, for example) and a less mature ecosystem but it’s still the most successful (and the only usable yet) attempt to produce an alternative to GeForce and Radeon graphics cards. The next generation, Battlemage, could hopefully take it further. Read more “Intel catching up with Radeons? Battlemage GPUs will clock high” »

Intel Raptor Lake CPUs need another fix to prevent damage

Motherboards, News | | Jan Olšan

It seemed like the huge issue of unstable and crashing Intel Raptor Lake CPUs (Core 13th and 14th desktop generation) was over – and Intel would certainly like it to be – when last month BIOSes with microcode fixes started coming out. But it’s not. The company has now issued a new statement saying that even those fixes are not yet enough, and owners will need one more update to prevent these processors from slowly failing. Read more “Intel Raptor Lake CPUs need another fix to prevent damage” »

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