Well, from a purely technical point of view, Comet Lake-S is actually the generation 9.5 and not the tenth, because the real changes concern the base and the chipset rather than the actual piece of silicon. But that together with the Z490 chipset, which is also officially launched today, you can read something like a small evolution in the article [...]
Intel's Comet Lake-S is just getting started and of course you need a new base (again). Note: You can never have enough pins and with the features it looks similar. So what exactly awaits the potential buyer? First of all, the Z490 boards will rely on the new socket 1200. There is also an I/O extension, especially pcI Express 4.0 support [...]
In the course of MSI's "Review It – Keep it" campaign, I was lucky that the nice PCHMG community chose me in the final vote. The big bundle includes: an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, an MSI MEG X570 ACE, an SMSI Optix MAG272CQR and finally the MSI MPG Sekira 500G, with which I will start here and now in the picture section. A large case comes [...]
The weather provokes the way outside and be it on the home balcony. You like to take such a mobile sound lover out with you, because with the pure natural noises it is not far away in the city anyway. Despite lockdown. But how you manage to go singing and swimming with a 66 Euro expensive speaker in the truest sense of the word, I even want to [...]
NVIDIA has now announced the new date for its failed online event as part of GTC 2020: the 14th. May 2020. The company also launched a pun that the audience should then become "GET AMPED", which seems to be a wink to the upcoming GPU architecture: Ampere. In March, the company was still trying to save the GTC 2020 in some way by not [...]
Google is cutting its marketing budget for the second half of 2020 by up to 50 percent, according to audited internal documents, according to CNBC. This development only clearly shows that even the largest and highest rated companies are not immune to the devastating effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In a further move, Google informed [...]
Digitimes, a reliable source, reported in a report that both AMD and Nvidia have bought all the excess capacity at TSMC, contrary to the current trend, by increasing their orders for next-generation GPUs and CPUs to the maximum. This is how you can see that TSMC in the 1st Half-year 2020 will achieve very strong results thanks to the sudden [...]
Well, you can think of the EEC as you want, because everyone can actually enter what they would like (e.g. alleged “Big Navi” models from AFOX, but from time to time the list can be a certain indicator if the entries don’t look too suspicious. Intel’s Ponte Vecchio GPU, which is scheduled for 2021, appears to be sending a [...]
NVIDIA recently introduced an AI tool for RTX owners that not only frees microphone recordings, but secondary and independent playback of any audio stream from noise. RTX Voice, as an AI noise cancellation tool, can be used for pretty much anything that uses the microphone input, including teams, zoom, Skype, Teamspeak and, of course, Discord [...]
The name Noctua is likely to be known to most, be it the private silent enthusiast, Sys admin with sensitive ears or even users in the industry. A wide range of products and very quiet operation are associated with the Austrian/Taiwanese company for as long as the chocolate-brown color of the fans. Some time ago they got a new robe in light grey [...]
What Unibos (a brand of the Czech distributor Bostar) has come up with seems conclusive at first glance, albeit a bit niche: a portable and stable case for an NVMe-SSD, which you can bring to top performance via Thunderbolt 3 on suitable devices. Unfortunately, the whole thing excludes all USB generations, so that the case cannot be used [...]
According to AMD, the new AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300X offer twice as many multitasking capabilities as previous generations with four cores and eight threads, opening up completely new perspectives in Mainsteram. At the same time, the new B550 chipset for the AM4 socket now also offers the bandwidth advantages of the PCIe 4.0 on cheaper mainstream [...]
Counterfeiting and CPU fraud have not only been around since yesterday, especially in the retail market. But according to HKEPC’s latest report, it now looks like the big tech companies themselves are falling victim to these scams. The report mentions that Chinese-based shopkeepers and resellers have tried to send massive amounts of [...]
On April 14, 2020 I had already teased the whole story about Minecraft for Windows 10 including RTX and explained the techniques behind it. That is why I am saving myself this new introduction and I prefer to get straight to the point. Minecraft RT, like Quake II RTX, relies on pathtracing of the complete image and that’s exactly what you [...]
With the VPN100, Patriot recently launched another 1TB NVMe SSD, which relies on well-known components, so that i don't give up any puzzles in terms of assembly and which I had already tested before. But to use the current prices as a benchmark is going to be difficult, because the street price is running amok pretty much every SSD. A fast 1TB [...]
Our forum member Casi030 has recently given himself up to the grinding again and since many readers write that heatpipe direct touch is bad, he has once done a test for himself with a massive radiator floor. For this, he has secured a Scythe Kotetsu Mark II TUF Gaming Alliance to compete against the AMD Wraith Prism and the Arctic Freezer 33 [...]
The topic is plentiful complex and hot and ideally suited to provoke even neat emotions. I would therefore like to preface this article with a preliminary remark, which iamplease keep in mind during the reading. After all, I have thought for a long time whether and how what has accumulated here in my desk and in my head in recent years can be [...]
Minecraft is a long-running game and is also the best-selling game in the world with over 176 million copies sold on all platforms. While the game was released 10 years ago, it is still one of the five most popular games on PC. NVIDIA has worked with Mojang Studios and Microsoft to bring ray tracing, physical-based materials, and DLSS 2.0 to [...]
While it may have sunk a little, TSMC last month unveiled the world's largest chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) interposer. With a bandwidth of 2.7 TBps, this chip now offers almost three times the performance compared to the previous generation, which is quite remarkable. In times of corona hysteria, one might now think that production would [...]
The subject is almost as old as lignite and I have not only written an article about it in recent years. However, the feedback of those who are looking for help and would like to see everything clearly summarized and updated again is piling up again. Of course, I will not close myself off from this and restructure the whole issue and also revise [...]
