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AMD to Raise TDP for Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X to 105W
AMD is preparing to increase the thermal design power (TDP) for its Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X processors from 65W to 105W. This change will come with the release of the AGESA 1.2.0.1 Patch A BIOS update, expected to be available for all AM5 motherboards. AMD Aims to…
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4070 To Feature 3080 Performance For 3060 Power Draw
Power draw is a big topic for graphics cards with some of the top-end cards drawing upwards of 400W but luckily down at the mid and low end, we will be seeing lower power draw in particular with the RTX 4070 compared to its predecessor. RTX 4070 To Have a…
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Top Spec AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs May Come With a Worryingly Toasty 170W TDP!
With the upcoming launch of the AMD Ryzen 7000 platform later this year, big things are definitely on the way for fans of Team Red. Not only will this see the transition to the latest AM5 motherboard socket platform, but it will also see AMD’s official desktop introduction to the…
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Sources Claim Next-Gen AMD/Nvidia GPUs will Require 400-500 Watts!
It’s not exactly a secret that graphics cards over recent years have become significantly more potent than their predecessors. And where there are high levels of performance, there is (nearly always) a pretty hefty amount of power required to back it up. – Following a report via Videocardz, however, reliable…
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Benchmark Shows Intel Comet Lake-S Running Insanely Hot!
Back in January, we reported on leaked rumors that the upcoming Intel 10th-gen Comet Lake-S platform was going to be very impressive in terms of specifications. The downside was that this seemingly came at the cost of it also being very hungry in terms of power consumption. With figures of…
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Threadripper TDP and Cache Confirmed by AMD
Threadripper TDP The latest AMD Threadripper CPUs are almost upon us, but one or two pretty significant details have eluded us this whole time. For some reason, we’ve been unable to find out the TDP of the latest processors, which was a little concerning. Of course, we knew it was…
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FSP Launches Windale CPU Air Coolers
Power supply manufacturer FSP (Fortron Source Power) released their first PC chassis two months ago in a bid to expand beyond power related products, and now they have announced their first set of CPU coolers. The FSP Windale 4 and Windale 6 are CPU heatsinks using a tower-style form factor…
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RX 480 Exceeding PCI Express Power Specifications
After much speculation regarding its performance, the RX 480 has finally been released. While the performance is good for the money, some users are expressing disappointment, as they had really high (see: over inflated) expectations. Unfortunately for users and AMD, it now appears that the graphics card is drawing more…
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Intel Launches Braswell Entry-level SoCs
Intel has launched the brand new Braswell SoCs that will take the place of the current Bay Trail-D SoCs. The four new SoCs are built on the same 14nm process as Broadwell CPUs, with two dual-core and two quad-core models. The two new dual-core Braswell parts that are in the…
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GIGABYTE GeForce GTX Enabled BRIX Gaming PC in the Wild
Since the launch of the Intel NUC platform, there has been a lot of discussions about its small form factor and how more power could be harnessed from it and GIGABYTE managed to give a solution to this in the shape of the BRIX. Though its evolution, the BRIX has…
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Three New Intel Xeon E5-4600 v2 CPUs In The Works
Intel is going to introduce Ivy Bridge-EP microprocessors in Q1 2014, branded as Xeon E5-4600 v2, for quad-socket servers. Along with the two Xeon E5-4600 v2 models, the E5-4610 v2 and E5-4657L v2, that were found in a CPU support list on the ASRock website, intel also added three new…
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB Graphics Card Review
It’s that time of year again where NVIDIA have a new series of cards in the pipelines and as we have seen running up to today, the number of rumours and leaks that have been flying about are as profound as ever. For some this leads to pure confusion as…
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