It’s been nearly a decade since PCIe 3.0 was announced. Although 4.0 was announced only a year later, it wasn’t until January of 2019 that AMD announced their new X570 chipset would support PCIe 4.0, and motherboards, CP[...]
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In the tech world, the general consensus used to be that if you weren’t planning to overclock your processor, there was no need to use liquid cooling. These days, particularly in recognition of AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 serie[...]
With the new line of X570 motherboards coming up, PCIe 4.0 is finally within reach for the average consumer. With that in mind, it seemed like a good idea to talk about PCIe lanes. What are they exactly, and how many&n[...]
Balancing Your GPU Power Budget
While the rate of increase of CPU frequency has plateaued over the last several years,1 overall performance of high-end GPUs continues to rise.2 Meanwhile, burgeoning industries like AI and Big Data are demanding bette[...]
When you see that the new Intel® 8th generation i7 processors have pretty much the same CPU and performance per MHz as the previous generation of Skylake and Kaby Lake Intel processors, you may not be initially impressed[...]