ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Extreme – Best X570 Motherboard with Thunderbolt 4

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Motherboard manufacturers are releasing a new version of their AMD X570 motherboards – the “X570s“. These X570s motherboards don’t come with a cooling fan for the chipset. ASUS recently announced several new X570 motherboards. But its flagship is perhaps one of the best if not the best X570 motherboards currently in the market – the … continue reading

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Unleashed – A GeForce RTX 3060-killer?

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AMD recently announced its latest GPU, the Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card. Aimed towards 1080p gamers, the RX 6600 XT is targeting users who are still using a GTX 1060 (or older) GPU, offering up to a “2.5x performance” increase. It’s also AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card. It would be … continue reading

Lian Li UNI Fan AL120 Fans Now Available – Check Out Its New Features

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Early this month, Lian Li adds the UNI Fan AL120 series in addition to its SL120 fan series. The new Uni Fan AL120 features the same interlocking and daisy chain connection. Interestingly, it features a fully customizable fan blade and inner frame lighting effects. The AL120 is stylized with brushed aluminum trims and an aluminum … continue reading

MSI Unleashes SPATIUM M.2 NVMe SSD Series – M480 Gen4 Leads The Family

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The SSD market is getting more and more saturated and very competitive. Even well-known motherboard and graphics card manufacturers have entered this market. MSI recently announced its SPATIUM SSD series. The new series includes the M480, a Gen4 NVMe SSD; the M470, also a Gen4 but slightly slower; and the M370, an entry-level Gen3 NVMe … continue reading

Intel 11th Gen vs 10th Gen CPU – Which One To Get?

Intel 11th Gen Vs 10th Gen CPU

Intel‘s latest 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs are now available. Reviews went live starting end of March, and it was not looking good for the “flagship” i9-11900K. Most reviewers did not recommend the i9-11900K since it’s expensive, power-hungry, and runs very hot. On the flip side, the Core i5-11600K was faring well against the Ryzen … continue reading

ASUS ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6900 XT T16G Gaming Graphics Card Unleashed

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Graphics cards are really hard to come by these days, and liquid-cooled ones are even rarer. Recently, ASUS released a new version of its liquid-cooled RX 6900 XT – the ASUS ROG Strix LC RX 6900 XT TOP T16G graphics card. Aesthetically speaking, it looks similar to its predecessor that was released late last year. … continue reading

DDR5 vs DDR4 – Advantages of DDR5 Memory

DDR5 vs DDR4 memory

DDR5 memory is just a few months away and we will start to see these new memory kits in the DIY PC market. The upcoming 12th Gen Intel CPU and 600 Series chipset, as well as AMD’s Zen4 architecture, are said to support and will make use of DDR5 memory. Kingston recently announced that they … continue reading

IBM 2nm Chip Technology Announced – It’s the World’s First!

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IBM recently announced its breakthrough in semiconductor process and design with the world’s first chip featuring 2 nanometers (nm) nanosheet technology. While we have seen substantial performance gains and efficiency that a 7nm fab process can offer, IBM’s 2nm even push those numbers to a new level. IBM’s 2nm is said to offer up to … continue reading

Intel Core 1800 Alder Lake CPU Rocks 16 Cores and 24 Threads

12th Gen Intel Core Alder Lake CPU

It has only been several weeks since Intel released the 11th Gen Intel Core Rocket Lake-S CPUs. But more information about Intel’s upcoming 12th Gen Alder Lake desktop processor is one by one surfacing on the web. Recently, specs about a certain Intel Core 1800 Alder Lake (engineering sample) CPU were leaked by Igor’s LAB. … continue reading