Category: News

New Thermalright Macho Maxx: Lower weight, higher performance?

Cooling, CPU coolers, News | | Ľubomír Samák

Thermalright has released a new Macho cooler, which has seen the most significant changes in fin geometry between generations. It is still a wide single tower cooler, but the intention seems to have been to increase the efficiency of the design. In other words, to make more sensible use of the available material from which the cooler is made. Macho Maxx does have a lower heatsink weight than its predecessor (Macho rev. B), but it will probably not be weaker. Read more “New Thermalright Macho Maxx: Lower weight, higher performance?” »

Nvidia will launch a new RTX 3060 Ti with GA103 die, photo is out

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Nvidia’s Ampere graphics were initially based on the GA102 (RTX 3090, 3080) and GA104 (RTX 3070, 3060 Ti) chips, with the smaller GA106 and GA107 coming later. Interestingly, there was aslo talk of GA103 chip from the very star that didn’t show up. A year after Ampere’s release, it came to life in the form of mobile GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. Now we’ve got its first photo, as well as news that it’s making its way to desktop cards… Read more “Nvidia will launch a new RTX 3060 Ti with GA103 die, photo is out” »

The era of PCI Express 5.0 SSDs will begin in Q3 2022

News, SSDs, Storages | | Jan Olšan

Several SSDs using PCIe Express 5.0 have already been unveiled. So far though, these have been only announcements of products with no store availability information given whatsoever. Teamgroup has also announced their PCIe 5.0 SSDs now, but in this case, the company has shared when are they supposed to come to market. Thanks to this, it’s finally becoming clear when will you have a chance to make Alder Lake’s PCIe 5.0 useful. Read more “The era of PCI Express 5.0 SSDs will begin in Q3 2022” »

Patriot P400 with Innogrit controller: just 2.5W PCIe 4.0 SSD

News, SSDs, Storages | | Jan Olšan

Patriot P200 SSD was a notable SATA drive a few years ago, with 1 TB capacity for cheap and decent performance despite being DRAMless. After the NVMe switch with P300, this lineage has produced another interesting SSD: Patriot P400, with the 4 in the name indicating a move to the PCI Express 4.0 interface. For users with suitable motherboards, P400 could prove to be very intersting SSD, and one of the most power efficient yet. Read more “Patriot P400 with Innogrit controller: just 2.5W PCIe 4.0 SSD” »

Three new cases from Cooler Master, HAF 500 and two MasterBoxes

News, PC cases | | Ľubomír Samák

The legendary HAF series of cases is getting more extensive with an upgraded model that has 200-millimeter fans, as well as adjustable graphics card cooling, for example. In addition to the main haul, Cooler Master also suddenly introduced the cheaper MasterBox 500 and MasterBox TD300 Mesh. That’s the smallest case of the trio, but even at 38 litres, it can fit two large liquid cooler radiators. Read more “Three new cases from Cooler Master, HAF 500 and two MasterBoxes” »

ASRock X370 mainboards with Ryzen 5000 support. End of the ban?

Motherboards, News | | Jan Olšan

This month AMD has announced they might cease blocking Ryzen 5000s from running on mainboards with X370/B350 chipsets (not the cheaper A320 though, ironically). This ban has been enforced on the AGESA code level. We possibly have some first signs of this: ASRock has just added Ryzen 5000 support to X370 motherboards, with a new AGESA. The company has previously floated alpha BIOSes supporting Zen 3, but now it is official. Read more “ASRock X370 mainboards with Ryzen 5000 support. End of the ban?” »

Nvidia introduces DLDSR: Dynamic Super Resolution with AI scaling

Graphics, News | | Ľubomír Samák

Last week, Nvidia quietly released GeForce RTX 3080 with 12GB of VRAM, which was strangely buried in an announcement of a driver release for God Of War. But there was yet another new feature hidden in it: Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution (DLDSR). It’s a new technology for GeForce RTX cards based on DLSS, but this time it’s not about upscaling, but ironically about downscaling, enhancing the Dynamic Super Resolution feature. Read more “Nvidia introduces DLDSR: Dynamic Super Resolution with AI scaling” »

Beware, some Arctic MX-5 thermal pastes may dry out faster

Cooling, News, TIMs | | Ľubomír Samák

Less than a year into the MX-5’s existence, the first publicly known flaw is associated with this thermal paste for which it may achieve lower thermal conductivity than expected. This is due to the compound that makes up the paste not holding together properly, and the thermally conductive interface will harden before application, in the tube. Arctic has supposedly already withdrawn these batches from circulation, but one needs to be cautious. Read more “Beware, some Arctic MX-5 thermal pastes may dry out faster” »

Big Shuriken 3’s revision B: LGA 1700 support and better fan

Cooling, CPU coolers, News | | Ľubomír Samák

Scythe has followed up the original Big Shuriken 3 cooler with a new revision. It brings, in addition to native support for Alder Lake processors, a supposedly improved fan. The Kaze Flex II is said to achieve the same cooling performance at lower noise levels, which is nice in the inexpensive top-flow category. There are really few coolers like this, and the Big Shuriken 3 rev. B has all the prerequisites to sit on an imaginary throne in its price category. Read more “Big Shuriken 3’s revision B: LGA 1700 support and better fan” »

Core i9-12900KS to come in Q1. 5.5 GHz enabled via Enhanced TVB

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

We have already reported on new Alder Lake CPUs released or introduced by Intel at CES 2022 (65W and 35W desktop models, 45W models for laptops a 9–28W mobile versions). But the company has pre-announced another addition: Core i9-12900KS. Intel has already confirmed and displayed this (so far) mightiest Alder Lake CPU and even set a rough release schedule. And we also learned the secret that is behind its extreme clocks. Read more “Core i9-12900KS to come in Q1. 5.5 GHz enabled via Enhanced TVB” »

PCIe 5.0 SSD for Alder Lake: MSI Spatium in card form-factor

News, SSDs, Storages | | Jan Olšan

This November, Intel Alder Lake CPUs have brought PCI Express 5.0 support to desktop computers (but not notebooks). Its high bandwidth is now of most use for SSDs, but unfortunately the Alder Lake platform does not offer PCI Express for M.2 slots. However we will still get SDDs for PCI Express 5.0. MSI and Phison have now revealed their Spatium disks designed as a card for PCIe 5.0 slots, circumnavigating the absent M.2 support. Read more “PCIe 5.0 SSD for Alder Lake: MSI Spatium in card form-factor” »

AM5 socket and Ryzen 7000 shown. Zen 4 capable of 5 GHz all-core

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

AMD has announced the release of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU with 3D V-Cache technology bound for spring and also talked its desktop CPU successors with Zen 4 architecture, planned to arrive this year. The company has shared the first pictures of the Ryzen 7000 CPUs and their AM5 sockets. AMD has further shown a demo, according to which the Zen 4 should be able to reach 5 GHz clocks on all cores, a great news for the 5nm technology. Read more “AM5 socket and Ryzen 7000 shown. Zen 4 capable of 5 GHz all-core” »

Akasa releases suspended fans resistant to dust and water

Cooling, Fans, News | | Ľubomír Samák

Added value in fans can take different forms. In the case of Akasa’s new OTTO SF12 and OTTO SC12 fans, it is dust resistance and the fans are also not to be disrupted by contact with liquid. Such designs are typically suited to the harsh ambient conditions of industrial plants. But neither airflow nor pressure is supposed to be on the second track. Finally, the fans also excel with a sophisticated anti-vibration system. Read more “Akasa releases suspended fans resistant to dust and water” »

Copper wire fins, the basis of the Ineo M12 SSD cooler

Cooling, CPU coolers, News | | Ľubomír Samák

Many different SSD coolers with atypical designs have been released over the years. But not a single one resembles the Ineo M12. Not only is it copper (but that doesn’t make it unique), but most importantly, it doesn’t use the traditional heatsink profile. In fact, this is most likely the only cooler with a wire heatsink. It also returns to the cooling philosophy of the bankrupt Nofan. The Ineo M12 uses an “icepipe”. Read more “Copper wire fins, the basis of the Ineo M12 SSD cooler” »

AMD unveils Ryzen 6000: 6nm Zen 3+ with superfast RDNA 2 iGPU

News, Notebooks, Processors | | Jan Olšan

AMD has been releasing its new laptop CPUs during CES every January, and this year will be no different. The Ryzen 6000 was revealed, AMD’s first 6nm APU that also brings support for DDR5 and LPDDR5 memory. And most importantly, all-new integrated graphics with RDNA 2 architecture that will set a new standard in gaming performance. But these processors also have other new features that Ryzen-based laptops have lacked until now. Read more “AMD unveils Ryzen 6000: 6nm Zen 3+ with superfast RDNA 2 iGPU” »

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