Although very low, we did observe some vibration even with the Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 PWM fans. However, one question still remains unanswered, namely, how much variability can there be in the observed vibrations across samples. We will focus on this in the coming weeks, and you can make your own guesses about the variability of vibrations. The most accurate of you will then win… yes, the Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 PWM. Read more “Take a guess: How do Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 PWM fans vibrate?”
There’s perception that AMD releases CPU rather early and tweaks the platform (firmware, drivers and other things) after the release. Performance improves as time goes on, but on the other hand, it’s not at 100% at the beginning. Ryzen 9000 really put this on display, but it looks like Intel may be the same story this year. Core Ultra 200S CPUs have allegedly not shown their real power and will get faster. Will that turn the tide? Read more “Intel: Arrow lake will get AMD-style post-launch performance fixes”
The AMD AM4 platform has a reputation for longevity. For most, it goes back to 2017 an the first Ryzen, but it’s even been used with Excavator APUs in 2016. It supports CPUs and APUs all the way up to the 2020/2021 Ryzen 5000, meaning that three Zen architecture generations of Zen can be used, which has keept older motherboards relevant way longer than is usual. It looks like AM5 platform owners will be similarly lucky. Read more “AMD CPUs with Zen 6 architecture will still use the AM5 socket”
No new GPUs from Nvidia are expected to hit the market this year with the new products will be revealed in January (at CES 2025). But one possibly important premiere in the world of gaming GPUs is still slated to happen this year – Intel’s new Arc desktop GPUs, the Battlemage architecture, will be released. It looks surprisingly good in the mobile Lunar Lake processors, so Arc “Battlemage” desktop graphics cards might finally be worth it. Read more “Intel’s new Arc “Battlemage” gaming GPUs coming out next month”
In cooperation with Axagon, we have prepared a cyclical activity for this year, which may be of interest to HWCooling readers. We’ll post a detail of some piece of hardware and you can guess what it is. You can compete (and eventually win something) on a regular basis, with a new challenge every month. But for now, you need to get “to the next round” through the next one, in November. Read more “Axagon Riddle (11/2024). Can you guess what’s in the photo?”
AMD has launched the Ryzen 7 9800X3D with second-generation 3D V-Cache technology with a large cache in an extra chipset, which makes it a good (currently the best) CPU for gaming. But this technology is now likely to be deployed more widely. It’s apparently coming to high-performance Threadripper processors for the first time, and could even appear in APUs, i.e. mobile processors for laptops, perhaps as Infinity Cache for their GPUs. Read more “AMD plans Threadrippers with 3D V-Cache, X3D APUs coming too”
If you like things associated with your favourite brand, you might be interested in our polo shirts with HWC logos. They were primarily created for the HWCooling Techtour events as “pinnies”, but we have a few left over. Whether there will be enough for the biggest fans remains to be seen. Anyway, you can now purchase polo shirts and support the operation (and development) of HWCooling.net magazine. Read more “HWCooling polo shirts? Yes, and a few pieces for you too”
Raspberry Pi started as a small foundation, but since then it has created several boards and modules, its own “keyboard PC”, peripherals and is starting to develop its own chips. RPi traditionally used memory cards as the storage, but the latest version has NVMe SSD support, so now comes the logical thing to do: Raspberry Pi is releasing its own SSD, although this time it is not in-house product, the module is manufactured externally. Read more “Raspberry Pi releases its own SSD for RPi 5, adds PCIe 3.0 support”
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”
SSD pricing has been unfavorable form most of the year, with storage becoming more and more expensive ever since the second half of 2023. Fortunately, it seems that the cycle is finally over and prices will hopefully start falling again, according to the SSD market forecast for the last quarter of the year published by market research outfit TrendForce, which has been tracking DRAM and NAND (and with them, entire SSDs) prices for a long time. Read more “Finally cheaper SSDs: A period of falling prices is coming”
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 looks like AMD is planning to proverbially rain on Intel’s parade around the new Arrow Lake desktop processors (Core Ultra 200S). Rumors lately say that AMD will release Zen 5 derived gaming “X3D” processors, which could conquer the throne of the fastest gaming CPU, just after the competitor’s launch. According to the latest reports, they will really come shortly after Arrow Lake and with better clock speeds than what “X3D” Zen 4 achieved. Read more “Ryzen 7 9800X3D launches right after Arrow Lake. 5.2 GHz all-core?”
Last year, Intel unveiled plans for improving the x86 platform and instruction set, on which virtually all PC CPUs (from Intel, AMD, China’s Zhaoxin) are based: The APX extension, which breaks through the limitations in the number of registers (somewhat mitigating ARM’s advantage), and AVX10, which is the successor or evolution of AVX-512. For a long time it was unclear when these innovations would ship, but now we finally know. Read more “APX and AVX10 in two years? Intel to introduce them in Nova Lake”
Intel unveiled the Core Ultra 200S series CPUs yesterday. Intel’s long-awaited new desktop processor platform is coming with the LGA 1851 socket, replacing LGA 1700 and the problem-plagued Raptor Lake CPUs. And this new platform is one of the bigger changes in the company’s history. In addition to improved connectivity, it features chiplet tiles with 3D packaging for the first time. And for the first time, Intel’s CPU is fabbed at TSMC. Read more “Core Ultra 200S „Arrow Lake“: New Intel desktop CPUs are here”
Today, the new generation of Intel’s desktop processors, the Core Ultra 200 (or Series 2), also codenamed Arrow Lake, was officially unveiled. These will be Intel’s first chiplet desktop CPUs, and once again use a new socket, the LGA 1851, which is physically different from the existing ones. However, cooler compatibility should be a solved problem – Endorfy coolers, for example, already have support for the new socket. Read more “Current Endorfy coolers already support Intel LGA 1851 socket”
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