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ASRock Unveils Intel Z590 Mini-ITX Motherboard with Thunderbolt 4

Home News (Image credit: ASRock) ASRock has quietly introduced one of the industry’s first Intel Z590-based Mini-ITX motherboards with a Thunderbolt 4 port. The manufacturer positions its Z590 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB4 platform as its top-of-the-range offering for compact gaming builds for enthusiasts that want to have all the capabilities of large tower desktops and then some,… Read more

Ice Lake-D Gets a Massive Memory and Core Count Upgrade

Home News (Image credit: Intel) According to a tweet by leaker @momomo_us, Intel is refreshing its Xeon D lineup with the Ice Lake architecture. These parts are known as Ice Lake-D and will be replacing older Xeon D architectures with several major upgrades. Xeon D is a branch of Xeon processors aimed towards the ‘microserver’… Read more

ASRock Radeon RX 6700 XT Phantom Gaming D Review – The Fastest RX 6700 XT

Introduction We have with us the ASRock Radeon RX 6700 XT Phantom Gaming D 12 GB OC graphics card. The latest entrant to the custom-design graphics card space debuting with the RX 5000 series, ASRock has established itself as a serious design-house for premium custom Radeon RX graphics cards. The Phantom Gaming D is the… Read more

ASROCK Z590 Phantom Gaming Velocita Review

Introduction After almost a decade of total market dominance, Intel has spent the past few years on the defensive. AMD’s Ryzen processors continue to show improvement year over year, with the most recent Ryzen 5000 series taking the crown of best gaming processor: Intel’s last bastion of superiority. Now, with a booming hardware market, Intel… Read more

Nvidia’s Mining Limiter is Dead: Farm Uses 7 RTX 3060s

Home News GeForce RTX 3060 (Image credit: Quasar Zone) It’s true that nothing lasts forever, but Nvidia’s anti-mining limiter on the GeForce RTX 3060 didn’t last long at all. Cryptocurrency miners have circumvented the algorithm in a little over one month since the official announcement. Intentional or not, Nvidia played a huge role in helping… Read more

AMD’s Radeon RX 6600 XT Will Land With Just 32MB of Infinity Cache

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD (via Kepler_L2) released a new Linux patch that exposes the cache configuration for its Navi 21, Navi 22 and Navi 23 silicon. The last is rumored to power the chipmaker’s upcoming Radeon RX 6600 series (or maybe RX 6500 series). The description for the patch reads: “The L1 cache… Read more

ASRock Teases Radeon RX 6900 XT Formula

Home News (Image credit: Twitter) As tweeted by @momomo_us; it appears that ASRock has teased a brand new RX 6900XT model in Asia called the Formula OCF 16G. We don’t know much, but we can assume it comes with 16GB of GDDR6. Presumably this will be ASRock’s flagship model of the RX 6900 XT, built… Read more

ASRock Z590 Steel Legend WiFi 6E Review: Feature-Rich, Affordable

Our Verdict The ASRock Z590 Steel Legend WiFi 6E is an inexpensive yet capable Rocket Lake board that should handle any ambiently cooled CPU you can throw at it. It packs integrated Wi-Fi 6E, three M.2 sockets and six SATA ports. This roughly $210 board looks to be a well-rounded option to jump into Intel’s… Read more

ASRock Z590 Steel Legend WiFi 6E (11th Gen) Review

Introduction After almost a decade of total market dominance, Intel has spent the past few years on the defensive. AMD’s Ryzen processors continue to show improvement year over year, with the most recent Ryzen 5000 series taking the crown of best gaming processor: Intel’s last bastion of superiority. Now, with a booming hardware market, Intel… Read more

Building Project A.R.E.S: My Award-Winning Sci-Fi Case Mod

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Page 1 of 3: Project A.R.E.S. (Astral Robot Enclosure Systems) Project A.R.E.S. (Astral Robot Enclosure Systems) tells a story: Starship Copper Nebula, named so for its peculiar color, is tapped for space program A.R.E.S. The starship comes in contact with some sort of organic alien technology, which starts to… Read more

NZXT’s first AMD motherboard is sleek and packed with USB ports

NZXT’s first AMD motherboard is the N7 B550. Like the Intel versions that preceded it, the N7 B550 has a slick design with the option of either a black or white shroud that covers the bulk of the board itself. No doubt NZXT hopes the motherboard’s clean appearance will make it an appealing option for… Read more

Klevv Bolt XR DDR4-3600 C18 2x16GB Review: The RGB-Less Commoner

Our Verdict The Bolt XR DDR4-3600 C18 is a memory kit that gels great any processor. If you can find it in your region, it’s worth your attention. For Decent performance Overclocking upside Low-profile, RGB-less design Against Currently unavailable at U.S. retailers Not every piece of computer memory needs to have fancy heatsinks or flashy… Read more

NZXT N7 B550 Review: NZXT Meets AMD

Our Verdict NZXT’s N7 B550 is a solid entrant into the AMD motherboard space. The heavily shrouded appearance looks good and the board is plenty capable with a ton of USB ports on the rear IO. Priced at $229.99, it’s a good basis for a B550 Ryzen rig. For Capable 12-Phase, 50A Power Delivery Wi-Fi… Read more

ASRock Packs AMD’s Ryzen 5000 CPU Into a 1U Short Depth Server

Home News (Image credit: ASRock Rack) ASRock Rack has quietly unveiled its new 1U shorth depth low-power server based on AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processor as well as X570 chipset. The 1U2-X570/2T can be used for light server workloads, or as a remote desktop. Both AMD and Intel offer a broad range of Epyc and Xeon… Read more

New Entry-Level Rocket Lake Xeons Briefly Appear on List

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s new W-1300 series of Xeon processors briefly emerged in a compatibility list showing all CPUs supported in Intel’s latest LGA1200 socket. However, a few hours later they were taken down. This could mean that these new Xeon processors will support the same socket as Intel’s consumer-grade Rocket Lake products…. Read more