Update from 09.03.2021 – CTR 2.0 RC5 Lower reference frequency values for Zen3 (extra safety when pressing the TUNE button) The number of attempts to contact the SMU is increased from 5 to 10 Testing Mode – only AVX Light (fixed a bug where it was possible to unlock this switcher) Update from 04.03.2021 – CTR 2.0 RC4 As we [...]
Load spikes that can cause even nominally adequate power supplies to suddenly shut down are all the rage right now, especially since the launch of NVIDIA’s current Ampere generation. It is also undisputed that this leads to the creation of legends and, of course, the accessories industry. But is there any point at all in placing a capacitor [...]
Anyone who spends a lot of time in a home office knows the dilemma: one computer for work, one computer for private use, both with monitors and peripherals, but both somehow have to be on the same desk. Chaos ensues, ergonomics and productivity suffer. The remedy is a KVM switch. We’ll take a look at what that is and what an implementation [...]
Those who are waiting for news about Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake processors can take a deep breath just before the launch, only to come up for air again right away. After all, Intel’s Rocket Lake architecture represents the first significant architecture upgrade in over 6 years and will also support PCIe 4.0, so they can catch up to [...]
You’ve seen a lot of things, even on YouTube. For example, a 500 watt power supply miraculously survives even a GeForce RTX 3080, while exactly this card even forced a 1300 watt Platinum behemoth to give up in the lab before the Ampere launch. Well, NVIDIA has meanwhile defused the boost and thus also the load changes, but that should still [...]
With the Xtreme SKUs, ADATA XPG expands the existing Spectrix D50 RAM portfolio with two products in the high-end segment with actually extreme XMP clock rates of 4800 and 5000 MT/s. And to spoil a little in advance, for once not Samsung B-Die, but SK Hynix DJR serves as the basis for this flagship RAM. We will take a close look at whether this [...]
The reports about failures of Gigabyte’s current P750GM are piling up and also my friend Aris Mpitziopoulos has already tested this power supply and, analogous to what you could read in the social networks, already had to dispose of it professionally with a capital complete failure and, after an also visually remarkable firework. The power [...]
AMD’s Zen3 architecture Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs and matching X570 motherboards are popular, sell like hotcakes, and are also considered one of AMD’s best CPU lineups because they offer a lot of performance.But where there is a lot of light, there also seems to be the first shadows, if you follow the reports on Twitter and Reddit [...]
Now that Zen 3 has been out for some time, one naturally wonders about AMD’s next-generation CPU architecture for the Ryzen and EPYC CPUs, i.e. Zen 4 carries. Latest rumors now say that there will be another huge IPC jump and massive performance increase over the current processors. The s latest rumor on this topic comes from ChipsandCheese [...]
Intel has announced that the 11. It is expected that the 3rd generation Rocket Lake desktop CPUs will not be compatible with the existing B460 and H410 based motherboards. According to Intel, the new CPUs will only be officially supported on Z490 & H470 motherboards, while the more budget-oriented offerings will have to stay out. However [...]
Since there were some irritations at the beginning, also in connection with older installations, a special CTR-Cleaner is now available for download, which deletes the old entries from the registry under ” %LOCALAPPDATA%/A, %LOCALAPPDATA%/Nemesis_UIv2″ reliably. Please note: The program should be run as administrator (right click and [...]
If you are in urgent need of a new computer, you have to put up with the extreme prices on the one hand and the limited availability of the components on the other. It’s annoying, but it’s not likely to change anytime soon. Because you can’t always choose the time of an upgrade, or the conditions never really fit 100% anyway [...]
Corsair has unveiled the new 5000D, 5000D Airflow and iCUE 5000 RXG case models at CES 2021, with a design language and naming scheme that aims to tie in with the 4000 series product portfolio. We’ll take a look at whether Corsair has succeeded in this in today’s review of the top model iCUE 5000X RGB. As our friend “Aris” [...]
Corsair is announcing the new 5000 Series cases at CES 2021. Continuing the naming scheme and design language introduced with the 4000 Series in late September, the 5000 Series is available as the 5000D, 5000D Airflow and iCUE 5000X RGB. In addition to the black variants, there will also be white variants of the model. The 5000 Series is therefore [...]
Intel previewed its upcoming Rocket Lake architecture for the first time at CES 2021. The upcoming Rocket Lake CPUs mark the first really big architectural overhaul in well over 5 years and is also an architecture that, due to circumstances, has been backported from 10nm at great expense so that Intel can get it to market as quickly as possible [...]
The fact that graphics cards cause considerable load peaks I could already prove impressively 6 years ago for the first time – including all the resulting problems and measures for the power suppliers. In the meantime, a lot has been done, of course also in the interest of the end customers. And yet, there are always situations where a power [...]
Our friend Yuri (1usmus) made an interesting discovery in the course of working on the new Clock Tuner for Ryzen (CTR) 2.0 for the Zen3 CPUs and the implementation of AMD’s API, because although both the Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 7 5800X are actually made with only one chiplet (CCD), some time before Christmas 2020 models have been spotted [...]
The first block diagram of AMD's Ryzen 5000 "Cezanne" APUs based on the Zen 3 architecture has been leaked by now Videocardz. The block diagram shows that AMD's Ryzen 5000 'Cezanne' APUs will feature some major design changes compared to the current generation and are not just a simple refresh of the current 3rd Gen Ryzen [...]
The fact that you should use your RAM at least in dual-channel if possible has fortunately become widely accepted in the industry today. However, unlike channels, ranks are still talked about very rarely, if at all. Many publications, some of them very well known, prefer instead to talk about “sticks” or modules affecting performance [...]
When miners are mining, of course, really fat wattages come into play for the power supplies as well. Better efficiency in the masses is of course really fun and also generates a monetary added value. That's probably what the manufacturers of the China firecracker sold in the USA thought, too, as they gave their firecracker a snazzy 90-plus [...]
