Category: News

Cheap A620 AM5 boards are out, starting at $85. Here’s the models

Motherboards, News | | Jan Olšan

In the last few days, inexpensive A620 chipset-based AM5 motherboards for Ryzen 7000 started leaking. We’ve already seen photos of one model and it seems that AMD has timed the unveiling and release for the last day of March (maybe they wanted to formally make it before the end of the first quarter). And now, boards with this chipset were launched from all the usual manufacturers, with the cheapest ones going as low as $85. Read more “Cheap A620 AM5 boards are out, starting at $85. Here’s the models” »

First AMD FSR 3.0 sneak peek, technology is similar to DLSS 3

Graphics, News, Technology | | Jan Olšan

Few months ago, AMD has announced ongoing work on the third generation of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) upscaling, which should bring a similar feature to DLSS 3 – interpolating of intermediate frames inserted between legitimate game frames, much like TVs do with video and movies. AMD has now formally confirmed this and presented FSR 3.0, which will offer frame interpolation and will again be open technology (including source code). Read more “First AMD FSR 3.0 sneak peek, technology is similar to DLSS 3” »

BeQuiet! Light Wings fans now also in white

Cooling, Fans, News | | Ľubomír Samák

For users who prefer a contrast to the traditional stuff, BeQuiet! has released white Light Wings fans, in both 120mm and 140mm formats. By the standards of lighted fans, these will be models with some of the stiffest blades, especially in the smaller format. Because of its design characteristics, it is highly likely to achieve extremely low vibration alongside a superbly non-intrusive sound profile. Read more “BeQuiet! Light Wings fans now also in white” »

Enermax introduces ATX 3.0 standard with the Revolution series

News, PSUs | | Ľubomír Samák

Enermax now also has its irons in the fire among ATX 3.0 PSUs. The “weaker” variant has a rated power of 1000 W, the more powerful up to 1200 W. The main attraction of these PSUs (not only the new Enermax Revolution, but ATX 3.0 models in general) is the 16-pin connector for external power supply of GeForce RTX 4000 graphics cards. And the Enermax PSUs have two of them, which is one of the competitive advantages compared to other solutions. Read more “Enermax introduces ATX 3.0 standard with the Revolution series” »

Your CPU is Rocket Lake or older? Write us for a 400W cooler

Giveaway, News | | Editors

We’d be happy to give someone, whom it will help, an unconventional Zalman liquid cooler. The Reserator 3 Max Dual will definitely have a nice collector’s value someday, but it will have to wait for retirement. It may not support the latest platforms anymore, but it is still well equipped to run in many PCs with relevant performance for today. And it has the cooling performance to handle very high power Core i9-class processors as well. Read more “Your CPU is Rocket Lake or older? Write us for a 400W cooler” »

Beware: counterfeit Samsung SSD 980 Pro are selling in China

News, SSDs | | Jan Olšan

When you shop on auction servers or Chinese internet “marketplaces”, you are at risk of counterfeit hardware. There have been and still keep being sold counterfeit graphics cards (that usually contain old and worthless GPUs), but also processors. And now, apparently, we are getting counterfeit NVMe SSDs. They also appeared in China and are while they are quite sophisticated, you won’t get the desired features and performance. Read more “Beware: counterfeit Samsung SSD 980 Pro are selling in China” »

RTX 4080 Noctua Edition is out. Great cooler, what about the coils?

Graphics, News | | Ľubomír Samák

You already know the non-reference graphics cards with Noctua coolers from the Nvidia Ampere generation (GeForce RTX 3000), but now comes the first design with an Ada Lovelace GPU, on the RTX 4080. The main improvement of the cooler lies in the use of the Vapor Chamber and the cooling efficiency seems to be really top-notch. But we know less about the coils – nobody was really concerned with them in tests, but we did get some information from Noctua. Read more “RTX 4080 Noctua Edition is out. Great cooler, what about the coils?” »

Radeon RX 6300 spotted in China. Modern GT 1030 replacement?

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Basic low-cost dedicated GPUs became a dying breed over the last decade. Faster integrated GPUs leave less and less room for them and it doesn’t pay off to develop new chips of this sort anymore. Nvidia has been selling the GeForce GT 1030 with a 16nm Pascal architecture chip for almost six years now, and it’s only now, it seems. that a more modern replacement could appear: the Radeon RX 6300 with a 6nm GPU based on a current architecture. Read more “Radeon RX 6300 spotted in China. Modern GT 1030 replacement?” »

24GB/48GB DDR5 modules don’t work with Ryzen CPUs, fix coming?

Memory, News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

In the past, Intel processors could not run newer higher-capacity DDR2 and DDR3 modules, while AMD processors worked. That’s why we were sort of assuming that the currently appearing DDR5 modules with unusual “non-binary” capacities would just automatically work on AMD platforms. But that’s not true, it seems that they only work with Intel processors for now and Ryzen 7000s will only be able to use them after a future update. Read more “24GB/48GB DDR5 modules don’t work with Ryzen CPUs, fix coming?” »

Ryzen 7000X3D: technical details and asymmetric CCX handling

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Last day of February, AMD started selling the Ryzen 7000 processors with 3D V-Cache, the chiplet technology increasing L3 cache capacity. Prior generation (Ryzen 7 5800X3D) proved that this benefited gaming, and it looks like the same is true now. Ryzen 7000s are aimed specifically at gaming PCs, and according to reviews, they seem to have surpassed Intel’s Raptor Lake processors in that and are now holding the gaming performance crown. Read more “Ryzen 7000X3D: technical details and asymmetric CCX handling” »

Radeon driver problem breaks Windows, avoid factory reset option

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

AMD released a new version of Radeon Software drivers 23.2.1 last month, which was significant in that after a hiatus where new versions were only for Radeon RX 7900s for a while, it merged the two branches and now the same driver supports all GPUs again. But it looks like there is a bug in the installer that may lead to a broken Windows installation. It’s said to happen only rarely, but there are certain situations to watch out for. Read more “Radeon driver problem breaks Windows, avoid factory reset option” »

Nvidia RTX Video Super Resolution out. What you need to know

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

In January, Nvidia announced a new feature for its graphics cards: the RTX Video Super Resolution, upscaling and post-processing videos played in Chrome-based web browsers. Nvidia uses AI upscaling with temporal stabilization in games under the DLSS name, so applying AI to web video is a logical extension. This feature has now been enabled by the current GeForce graphics drivers and the first comparisons and feedback are coming in. Read more “Nvidia RTX Video Super Resolution out. What you need to know” »

Stiffer and more efficient, improvements of the Arctic P12 (Max)

Cooling, Fans, News | | Ľubomír Samák

Arctic has released a successor to the P12 fan, or perhaps more likely a higher-end model of it, as the P12 Max is a bit more expensive. That’s because it has a significantly more sophisticated design that addresses the shortcomings of the P12. In particular, the P12 Max has stiffened blades to counteract the high vibration of Arctic’s 5-blade rotors, and also, it will be one of the most powerful 120mm fans due to its significantly increased speed. Read more “Stiffer and more efficient, improvements of the Arctic P12 (Max)” »

Intel LGA 1851 platform details: Z890 and Meteor Lake connectivity

Motherboards, News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Intel LGA 1700 desktop platform is now running on its second generation of processors (Raptor Lake) which will see a refresh in fall, but that will be the end of this socket. A new LGA 1851 socket is planned for Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake processors and a report has now revealed new features of this platform. Intel will give the processor-connected I/O interfaces an upgrade that will put it closer to the AM5 platform. Read more “Intel LGA 1851 platform details: Z890 and Meteor Lake connectivity” »

Impressive top-flow cooler Jiushark: 265W TDP, priced at 40 EUR

Cooling, CPU coolers, News | | Ľubomír Samák

If there’s anything missing in the relatively oversaturated range of CPU coolers, it’s a properly powerful top-flow model. The Chinese company Jiushark now brings one such cooler. Although it is not a completely original design (there already has been a similar cooler), it currently makes a rather unique impression. You will look in vain for an alternative with comparable TDP to the JF13K-Diamond cooler in its price range. Read more “Impressive top-flow cooler Jiushark: 265W TDP, priced at 40 EUR” »

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