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Gigabyte’s Z590 Aorus Waterforce Motherboard Overflows With Features

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) Gigabyte’s AORUS Z590 Extreme Waterforce is one of the craziest motherboards that you’ll be able to buy soon for Intel’s Comet Lake and Rocket Lake SKUs, and could very well at some point find its way onto our best motherboards list. The board is designed for custom liquid cooling from… Read more

GPU Test System Update March 2021

Introduction TechPowerUp is one of the most highly cited graphics card review sources on the web, and we strive to keep our testing methods, game selection, and, most importantly, test bench up to date. Today, I am pleased to announce our newest March 2021 VGA test system, which has one of many firsts for TechPowerUp…. Read more

Intel’s 8-Core & 6-Core Tiger Lake-H Specifications Listed

Home News (Image credit: Intel) When Intel introduced its codenamed Tiger Lake-H processors earlier this year, it limited the announcement to quad-core CPUs aimed at a rather niche ‘ultraportable gaming’ segment and did not reveal any details about six-core and eight-core Tiger Lake-H CPUs it previously confirmed. These chips are still on track to be released in the… Read more

MSI MEG Z590 Ace Review: New Ace in Town

Home News (Image credit: MSI) While we still don’t have an Intel Rocket Lake-S Core i9-11900K CPU to use for testing, Intel Z590 boards have been rolling in. So while we await benchmark results, we’ll be walking in detail through the features of these brand-new boards. First up on our bench was the ASRock Z590… Read more

NASA’s latest Mars rover has the same processor as an iMac from 1998

NASA’s brand-new Perseverance rover is the most advanced machine that’s ever landed on Mars. But when it comes to rovers, “state of the art” is a subjective term. Perseverance is running on none other than a PowerPC 750, a single-core, 233MHz processor with just 6 million transistors that’s most famous for powering the original “Bondi… Read more

Best Thermal Paste for CPUs 2021: 90 Pastes Tested and Ranked

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Choosing the best thermal paste may sound simple, but a dizzying array of options can turn this seemingly easy choice into a time-consuming task. Thermal paste is designed to minimize microscopic air gaps and irregularities between the surface of the cooler and the CPU’s IHS (integrated heat spreader), the… Read more

TechTuber Benchmarks Core i7-11700 Qualifying Sample

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Intel’s 11th Gen Core CPUs might be weeks away from launch, but that hasn’t stopped a TechTuber from getting his hands on a qualifying sample of a Core i7-11700 to test. The Rocket Lake chip was put through a bunch of gaming, productivity, and synthetic benchmarks. Qualifying samples are the… Read more

Intel’s Rocket Lake Core i5-11600K Spotted

Home News (Image credit: Intel) With Rocket Lake’s release date approaching, testers are getting their hands on more and more SKUs from Intel’s future Rocket Lake lineup; this time, we have benchmark results of Intel’s future Core i5-11600K (thanks to @Leakbench). The 11600K was found running the Geekbench 5 benchmark with mediocre performance at best,… Read more

New Rocket Lake Chip Matches Zen 3 in Single Core Performance

Home News (Image credit: Intel) A new member of the Rocket Lake family has been spotted on Geekbench, this time an ultra-low powered variant called the Core i9-11900T. With 8 cores and a 35W TDP, this chip is the most power-efficient Rocket Lake SKU to date. But with performance that might surprise you. As these… Read more

A first look at Intel’s UHD 750 Graphics on 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs

Home News (Image credit: Twitter) A poster on the Chinese Bilibilli forums has managed to grab one of Intel’s (yet unreleased) Rocket Lake SKUs, the Core i5-11500, and focused exclusively on benchmarking the chips integrated graphics. The chip comes with Intel’s most powerful desktop iGP to date, the UHD 750 which promises to be significantly… Read more

Refreshed Intel Comet Lake CPUs Arrive in Malaysia

Home News (Image credit: Reddit) Intel’s recently announced Core i3 Comet Lake refresh CPUs have already made it to Malaysia, according to a Reddit post. A user shared images of what appear to be two Core i3-10105F CPUs in newly designed product packaging that had apparently arrived at a Malaysian retailer. These chips are presumably… Read more

Intel Core i9-10900KS Special Edition CPU Spotted

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel just spilled the beans on an Intel Core i9-10900KS CPU that could be coming soon. An Intel Software Advantage Program qualifying list shows the SKU, leaving us wondering what it may offer over the standard Intel Core i9-10900K. The document also states that buying the Core i9-10900KS or one… Read more

Intel Talks Resizable BAR for 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs, Laptops

Home News (Image credit: Intel) As usual, Intel’s poised for a busy year. The company has already launched its new 11th Generation Tiger Lake H35 mobile chips, and 11th Gen Rocket Lake should blast into the market this year to take on the likes of AMD Ryzen 5000. This week during The Tom’s Hardware Show,… Read more

Why Rocket Lake CPUs Won’t Work On Most 400-Series Motherboards

Home News Intel Chipset (Image credit: Chiphell) It’s well documented that Intel’s 11th Generation Rocket Lake processors are not compatible with H410 and B460 motherboards. A new report from a Chinese forum (via momomo_us) claims that the upcoming 14nm chips might not even work on all Z490 motherboards. The author has shared some compelling evidence… Read more

This Mobile Comet Lake CPU Can Be Installed Into LGA 1151 Desktop Motherboards

Home News (Image credit: AliExpress) Someone on AliExpress is selling a rather unique processor you won’t find anywhere else: a Comet Lake mobile processor with a built-in interposer that allows support for LGA 1151 desktop motherboards. If you want to run an efficient 10th Gen mobile CPU on your desktop, now is your chance! The… Read more