Tag: hardware

This is not a drill: Noctua’s best fan yet is actually coming out this June

This is not a…

This moment has been a long time coming. Noctua, creator of many of the best PC fans, is making…
The reason Framework laptops just keep getting better: ‘We’re blind to none of the feedback and we absorb it all’

The reason Framework laptops…

Framework's laptops just keep getting better. Not magically, of course, but it recently announced its new Framework 13 with…
A liquid cooler with no pump: Noctua is working on a prototype targeting ‘AIO level performance’

A liquid cooler with…

Noctua doesn't do liquid coolers. It still doesn't today, though over at Computex it revealed a prototype for a…
Intel says it’s happy to make the very Arm chips that threaten its x86 hegemony

Intel says it’s happy…

“If Arm emerges, I want to be the foundry.” So says Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger when asked at his…
Team Group showed me some blazingly fast Gen 5 SSDs, pink DDR5, and a host of wacky cooling solutions to keep it all in check

Team Group showed me…

I'm sometimes asked why we don't often recommend Gen 5 NVMe drives (although, to be fair, we do recommend…
Witness the mighty Noctua power supply

Witness the mighty Noctua…

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Kingston gave me my first glimpse of CAMM2 DDR5 RAM at Computex 2024, along with some AI-gen race drivers and a very heavy F1 theme

Kingston gave me my…

I've been anxious to get a look at CAMM2 DDR5 in the flesh, so to speak, at this years…
Intel’s latest processor is mostly made by its biggest manufacturing rival because it had ‘a better process technology at that point in time’

Intel’s latest processor is…

Lunar Lake is a chiplet-based processor. The majority of these chiplets, which Intel calls tiles, are not manufactured by…
It’s on: our first look at Intel Battlemage comes from Lunar Lake’s new graphics silicon with its redesigned Xe2 architecture

It’s on: our first…

Battlemage is coming. At least that's what Intel says at an event dedicated to its new mobile processors, Lunar…
One thread per core: ‘we can deliver better than Hyper-Threading performance without Hyper-Threading’ claims Intel for Lunar Lake

One thread per core:…

Intel is ditching Hyper-Threading with its latest Lunar Lake processors. The simultaneous multithreading technology that has steadily delivered two…