Category: News

The new Phanteks D30 fan: Extra thickness now in 140 mm

Cooling, Fans, News | | Ľubomír Samák

A few 120 mm fans are already thicker than standard, but now there is one which is also one number larger. And it’s being taken up again by the brand that managed to popularize the 30 mm profile the most – Phanteks. The latest D30-140s come in two designs. In addition to the regular variant, there is also a reversed one with the same blades, but incorporated into the frame for the opposite direction of airflow so that it mainly “looks” good. Read more “The new Phanteks D30 fan: Extra thickness now in 140 mm” »

First games with FSR 3 are out, AMD released AFMF preview driver

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

A month ago, AMD announced the arrival of FSR 3, or FidelityFX Super Resolution 3, a technology that adds interpolation-based frame generation to FSR, analogous to Nvidia’s DLSS 3. The feature had its public launch last weekend as FSR 3 was patched into the first two games. Fluid Motion Frames, which doubles the frame rate via drivers even when the game doesn’t directly support it, is now also available for testing. Read more “First games with FSR 3 are out, AMD released AFMF preview driver” »

Pure Loop 2, or BeQuiet! renewed the cheapest line of AIO coolers

Cooling, CPU coolers, News | | Ľubomír Samák

In the lower class of BeQuiet! liquid coolers, the new Pure Loop 2 models replace the old (Pure Loop) models in up to four formats. This means that this news may be of interest to users of SFF systems as well as those on the opposite end of the spectrum, with full tower cases. The key changes between generations are the pump upgrade (finally with PWM control) as well as fans with higher static pressure. Read more “Pure Loop 2, or BeQuiet! renewed the cheapest line of AIO coolers” »

Intel plans: 2nm processors next year, 1.8nm Panther Lake in 2025

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Intel took a symbolic “step into the future” by unveiling Meteor Lake processors now, for the first time using TSMC-manufactured silicon as well as advanced chiplet design with 3D Foveros technology. Meteor Lake will come out at the end of the year, but Intel has also revealed a roadmap of processors for PCs and laptops, showing what will come after it. Three new generations or families of “lake” processors are coming in 2024 and 2025. Read more “Intel plans: 2nm processors next year, 1.8nm Panther Lake in 2025” »

Intel unveils Meteor Lake processors: 4nm, tiles, Xe LPG graphics

News, Notebooks, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Meteor Lake is Intel’s first processor manufactured on in-house 4nm node, an important milestone. It is also, paradoxically, Intel’s first processor manufactured at TSMC, as many of its parts are outsourced in this way – a milestone too. This is the first mainstream Intel processor to use chiplets (or tiles) and advanced 3D packaging. It’s almost and extra beyond that, that there are new CPU cores, new GPU, and a new NPU for AI acceleration. Read more “Intel unveils Meteor Lake processors: 4nm, tiles, Xe LPG graphics” »

AMD launches Epyc 8004: lower-cost, lower-power SP6 platform

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

This year, AMD has already released the Epyc 9004 “Genoa”, a 96-core server version of the Zen 4 architecture and even the HPC Genoa-X models equipped with 3D V-Cache. Now they are joined by a separate family – processors codenamed Siena, which are specifically designed for lower power draw and lower cost. They have their own SP6 platform with six-channel memory controller (so the boards should cost less too) and TDPs starting from 70W. Read more “AMD launches Epyc 8004: lower-cost, lower-power SP6 platform” »

The days of SSDs getting cheaper are over. Prices are starting to rise

News, SSDs | | Jan Olšan

SSDs have been steadily getting cheaper for a long time now, often to prices undreamed of a few years ago. This was due to a slump in PC demand, which left the NAND Flash memory market oversupplied. Beware, however, this price drop seems to have bottomed out and prices are expected to start going up from autumn, or at best stay flat. So the time fo any storage upgrades may be now as SSDs may get more expensive in the coming months. Read more “The days of SSDs getting cheaper are over. Prices are starting to rise” »

Nvidia Blackwell adds IPC instead of cores. Up to 70% faster?

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

The waiting for the next generation of Nvidia graphics cards will probably take a bit longer this time around, as Nvidia plans them for 2025 instead of fall 2024 according to the official roadmap. Still, information is starting to emerge about these upcoming GPUs that will bring the Blackwell architecture to both compute and gaming segment. And there are even first projections estimating the performance uplift over current GeForce GPUs. Read more “Nvidia Blackwell adds IPC instead of cores. Up to 70% faster?” »

Guess a fan vibration variance and win anything Endorfy

Giveaway, News | | Editors

Can you guess how big the difference in vibration can be between the “best” and “worst” piece of the inexpensive Endorfy Stratus 120 PWM fan? We’ll take a look at this in the future, and your job will be to guess as accurately as possible. As a reward, whoever comes closest to the correct answer will receive any “cooling” product from Endorfy. In the case of smaller items, the prize can also be made up of multiple items. Read more “Guess a fan vibration variance and win anything Endorfy” »

AMD Zen 6 requiring new socket? Server roadmap may suggest so

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Last week, a roadmap (or rather a cutout of it) apparently coming from one of the manufacturers of servers and similar hardware that was showing the planned products of the major players – Intel, AMD and Nvidia – was made public on the internet by leaker YuuKi_AnS. It appears to be showing the plans for 2025 or 2026, so time still quite a bit far off and product generations following those that are to come to market now. Read more “AMD Zen 6 requiring new socket? Server roadmap may suggest so” »

Intel Meteor Lake integrates LPDDR5X memory onto the CPU

News, Notebooks, Processors | | Jan Olšan

When Apple released their first ARM processors for computers in 2020 (Apple Silicon M1), one of the distinguishing features was that the RAM  was tightly integrated directly on the processor’s package (substrate), which was called “On-Package Memory”. This allowed for a reduction in power draw and was considered one of the sources of power efficiency for these CPUs. It looks like Intel’s CPUs will now start using the same concept. Read more “Intel Meteor Lake integrates LPDDR5X memory onto the CPU” »

This is “Grand Tornado” – finally an elite Scythe fan

Cooling, Fans, News | | Ľubomír Samák

We’ve known about Scythe’s preparations for a new fan for some time now. We are only now getting to the details of its design. While it hasn’t officially been released yet, it has appeared in Wootware catalogue – and in all its glory. In addition to the complete parameters, we have several high-resolution photos available. With the Grand Tornado fan, Scythe is sure to get a say in who has the “best” fan. Read more “This is “Grand Tornado” – finally an elite Scythe fan” »

The next fan in our test database will be… can you guess?

Fans, Giveaway, News | | Editors

In the next fan test there will be a model for which many of you have been waiting for a long time. It will be quite easy to recognize it even from the photo, which reveals only a small part of it, a detail. Everyone who writes us what fan it is will be entered into a draw for one big pack of them. And it’s really worth entering, there aren’t many more attractive options in the 120mm fan field (and we’ve exhausted all the hints with this one). Read more “The next fan in our test database will be… can you guess?” »

AMD Strix Point: 12 cores, 1024 RDNA 3.5 architecture shaders

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

The year 2024 is slowly approaching, in which Zen 5 based AMD Ryzen 8000 processors should come out. Now, a HWiNFO leak has hit the internet, apparently taken on a sample of such a processor, which slipped out from AMD or some board manufacturer, or that someone at those companies screencapped. Thanks to this we have a look at some of the specs of a Strix Point APU, i.e. the Ryzen 8050 for laptops with integrated RDNA 3.5 graphics. Read more “AMD Strix Point: 12 cores, 1024 RDNA 3.5 architecture shaders” »

Noctua has LGA 1851 support. Mounting stays physically the same

Cooling, CPU coolers, News | | Ľubomír Samák

The first generation of Intel CPUs with support for the future LGA 1851 socket is still a long way off, but the first info about cooler support is already making its way to the public. Documents have surfaced where materials around the Noctua NH-U12A cooler are linked to this platform, for which everything is ready. Noctua doesn’t deny this, and meanwhile ideas arise about how it could possibly be with the mounting systems of other coolers. Read more “Noctua has LGA 1851 support. Mounting stays physically the same” »

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