Two network adapters, over twenty USB ports, a really powerful VRM… in short, a motherboard for those with more demands than usual. The X870E Carbon WiFi is also rich in connectivity thanks to the two chips that make up the chipset’s south bridge. Overall, this makes it a very well equipped motherboard for the AMD AM5 platform that is more expensive, but you still don’t have to pay a devastating amount for it. Read more “MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi: Basis in above-standard features”
The last stop of this year’s HWCooling Techtour. It was different, but still energetic, professional and enriching for students. In Liptovský Hrádok, we found out the “overall winner” of the skills competition and managed to do other things that we hadn’t quite done before. Third time’s the charm? Definitely. The students were (again) very active, curious and overall well prepared. Read more “Full of latest hardware and… surprises – SOŠE Liptovský Hrádok”
The just launched Arrow Lake processors do bring a new platform and the LGA 1851 socket, but that doesn’t mean incompatibility with coolers. Although Arrow Lake has more contacts, the processor size and mounting holes have remained the same, so all the coolers compatible with the LGA 1700 socket will keep working. However, there is one thing Arrow Lake is not compatible with – aftermarket socket mods used to prevent CPU bending. Read more “LGA 1851: On CPU bending, RL-ILM and contact frames support”
The old cinema hall of the Secondary Industrial Technical School in Martin has come to life again. On the occasion of the world premiere of Intel Core Ultra/Arrow Lake processors and Gigabyte Z890 motherboards, we organized expert lectures for the students and they could also physically see the hardware on site. In addition, they demonstrated their knowledge and also their excellent skills in mounting coolers on a CPU. Read more “Premiere of Intel Core Ultra 200S at SPŠT Martin”
The information embargo on Z890 motherboard tests (and also Intel Core Ultra 200S/Arrow Lake CPUs) is over. We kicked off our tests with an in-depth analysis of the MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard, which also sheds light on the features of the Core Ultra 7 265K CPU. Primarily though, this will now be about the Z890 Tomahawk, which in some places has some major changes from its last generation. Read more “LGA 1851 is here. MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi tested”
In the spirit of “Hungry for Knowledge”, to celebrate the release of the new Intel Core Ultra 200S (Arrow Lake) processors and Z890 motherboards (Gigabyte Z890), we’re making the rounds to a few high schools to show the public the latest hardware. In Žilina, it was yet unreleased desktop processors and motherboards, so in this case we are writing about a pre-premiere. And a worldwide one at that. Read more “Intel Arrow Lake pre-premiere at SOŠE Žilina and we’re going further”
New X870E motherboards for AMD processors and Z890 boards for the new Intel Core Ultra 200S processors are now coming to the market. There will be one new feature on Asus boards that is supposed to improve the performance of RAM. It’s a new DIMM slot design that may not look any different on the outside, but has improvements that should allow DDR5 to overclock to higher clock speeds with better signal quality for more stable operation. Read more “Asus NitroPath: Improved DIMM slots boost RAM speed by 400 MHz”
It copies the older B650E Aorus Pro X USB4 in many points, but it is not a “perfect clone”. In some ways the Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WiFi7 has the upper hand, in others it lags behind. However, this mid-range motherboard is definitely worth your attention. Those who were frustrated by the in some places relatively poor connectivity of the Asus TUF Gaming X870 Plus WiFi may now be satisfied. Read more “X870 Aorus Elite WiFi7. Gigabyte’s mid-range tested”
Last week, Intel announced discovery of another source exposing desktop Raptor Lake processors (Core 13th and 14th generation) to high voltage that leads to irreversible damage and instability. But there’s one more thing: The company says that to protect your CPU from damage, you should use the so-called Intel Default Settings that restrict power limits. So is the CPU in danger without them, and does disabling them risk degrading? Read more “Do you still have to use Intel Default Settings with Raptor Lake?”
Recently, we reported that the Intel LGA 1851 platform with Core Ultra 200 (“Arrow Lake”) processors will premiere certain memory innovation – CUDIMM modules that have an integrated clock driver (CKD) that enables operation at (hopefully) higher clock speeds. It was unclear for a while whether this would end up being an Intel exclusive feature, but now it looks like CUDIMMs will be usable on AM5 boards with Ryzen processors as well. Read more “CUDIMM will work on AM5, MSI says, Ryzen 9000 or 8000 needed”
Motherboards with AMD X870 chipsets are already in stores. Unlike the older models designed for the AM5 platform, also compatible with Ryzen 9000 processors, X870 motherboards must support the USB4 interface, and there are more minor changes. We start our analysis of motherboards with the new AMD chipsets with the Asus model – the TUF Gaming X870 Plus WiFi. The mid-range also has a strong VRM. Read more “Asus TUF Gaming X870 Plus WiFi: USB4 for reasonable money”
It seemed like the huge issue of unstable and crashing Intel Raptor Lake CPUs (Core 13th and 14th desktop generation) was over – and Intel would certainly like it to be – when last month BIOSes with microcode fixes started coming out. But it’s not. The company has now issued a new statement saying that even those fixes are not yet enough, and owners will need one more update to prevent these processors from slowly failing. Read more “Intel Raptor Lake CPUs need another fix to prevent damage”
Along with new CPUs based on the Zen 5 architecture, AMD has announced new boards in June, more precisely new chipsets for them, on which the new boards will be based (the CPUs themselves work in all AM5 boards). The date when these boards will come out seems to be clearer now. But this year, we’ll only see the more expensive X870 and X870E models and it will be a longer wait for the cheaper B850 and B840 variants. Read more “AMD X870, X870E, B850, B840 chipsets: Features and launch dates”
Are you eagerly awaiting the new AMD X870(E) motherboards? They don’t necessarily have to be “better” than the Gigabyte B650E Aorus Pro X USB4 in any fundamental way. The features of this motherboard match what can be expected in models with “800 series” chipsets. These will be coming out soon, but USB4 support, which is a key new feature, is already available on the Gigabyte motherboard. So there might not be too many practical differences. Read more “Gigabyte B650E Aorus Pro X USB4: Motherboard with X870 specs”
It looks like the most important thing to happen in the PC industry this year are the widespread issues of Intel Raptor Lake processors with instability and game crashes caused by gradual physical damage to the chips due to high voltages that leads to irreversible degradation. The microcode patches, which will hopefully stop the CPUs from dying – the CPUs for which it is not too late already that is – have finally started to appear. Read more “The fix for dying Intel CPUs is out for first motherboards”
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