What a difference a year makes. In March 2019, I wrote about a GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card that was on sale for $469.99, which at the time was a decent bargain. Now 12 months later, the least expensive model available is this Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070, which is on sale for $379.99 at Newegg. That price is […]
Category Archives: Hardware
ASRock RX 5500 XT Phantom Gaming D Review: Inexpensive, Well-performing
AMD’s RX 5500 XT release in December 2019 targeted the entry-level 1080p gaming segment and was, overall, received well by the public. In particular, the 8GB variants are enticing, as they don’t take the performance hit of the 4GB cards in certain titles, though for now the card hasn’t managed to break into our best graphics […]
Colorful H310 Motherboard Shown Supporting Four Generations of Intel CPUs
While Intel has forced consumers to upgrade their motherboard with every new wave of CPUs since Skylake, Colorful apparently has a more cost-effective solution. Hardware leaker @momomo_us recently discovered that Colorful’s H310M-E V20 accepts four generations of Intel Core chips, spanning from Skylake to Coffee Lake Refresh. The H310M-E V20 comes in a compact, micro-ATX form factor and, of course, features […]
Samsung’s speedy DDR5 is coming next year, even if no PC will support it
DDR5 is on the way! We shouldn’t have to wait too long to see next-generation DDR5 system memory land in systems, according to Samsung. Whether those will be gaming systems we’ll have to wait and see what Intel and AMD have in store. But there’s still plenty to be excited about right now as the […]
The GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0 Motherboard Review: EPYC with Dual 10G
The workstation and server markets are big business for not only chip manufacturers such as Intel and AMD, but for motherboard vendors too. Since AMD’s introduction of its Zen-based EPYC processors, its prosumer market share has been slowly, but surely, creeping back. One example of a single socket solution available on the market is the GIGABYTE […]
Intel 10th Gen Laptop CPU at 5 GHz Spotted Before Release
The Intel Core i9-10880H, which should be the direct successor to last year’s i9-9880H, hasn’t been announced yet, but benchmarks results are already creeping up. Hardware leaker @_rogame reportedly found the upcoming mobile chip in a 3DMark submission yesterday. The i9-10880H (codename Comet Lake-H) is expected to arrive sporting eight cores and 16 threads like its predecessor. Besides the improved clock speeds, […]
Intel Core i5-L15G7 Lakefield CPU Rivals Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
A second Intel Lakefield processor has finally popped up in the wild. Twitter user @InstLatX64 recently spotted the Core i5-L15G7 in a Geekbench 5 submission. Based on the model name alone, the Core i5-L15G7 should be a lower-specced model in contrast to the previously-tested Core i5-L16G7. The Core i5-L15G7 chip is listed with five cores, which correspond to one powerful […]
ASRock’s AMD EPYC Motherboard Flaunts Seven PCIe 4.0 x16 Expansion Slots
German news outlet HardwareLuxx noticed a fascinating LGA4094 motherboard for AMD’s EPYC processors in ASRock Rack’s arsenal. For the uninitiated, ASRock Rack is ASRock’s elite server division. ASRock Rack engineered the ROMED8-2T to house both EPYC 7001-series (Naples) and EPYC 7002-series (Rome) processors. The motherboard features the standard LGA4094 (Socket SP3) socket and adheres to the ATX form factor. The ROMED8-2T […]
OLOy WarHawk RGB 2x32GB DDR4-3200 Review: Lower-Priced 64GB Performance
It’s easy to understand why a memory kit with four-times the capacity costs four times as much, but those of us accustomed to pricing out 16GB kits still face sticker shock at the thought of paying $299 for two DIMMs. But a look around at various competitors’ kits shows that this is, indeed, a value […]
Intel Core i5-10500T and Core i7-10700T Leaked With 92W and 123W Peak Power Consumption
Now that the Core i9-10900T has been leaked, it’s the Core i5-10500T and Core i7-10700T’s turn to shine. Thanks to @TUM_APISAK’s most recent findings, the potential specifications for the two looming Comet Lake desktop processors are out there for everyone to see. In terms of specifications, Intel’s T-series chips are very close copies of their regular counterparts. The processors feature the […]