EVGA ends 22 year partnership with NVIDIA, No RTX 4000 series GPUs

Originally reported through an interview between Gamer’s Nexus and EVGA’s CEO Andrew Han, it seems that EVGA will officially end its partnership of over 20 years with NVIDIA for the their next generation 4000 series graphics cards and beyond, and will not continue building new GPUs of any sort. That means no NVIDIA, AMD, or […]

GIGABYTE Z690 Aorus Master: Physical Review & IC Analysis

Today we are tackling our first Z690 chipset motherboard that ushers in the new era of PCI-E 5.0 and DDR5 compatible PCB designs that require a much higher level of engineering and quality compared to previous Intel chipset motherboards, so let’s see how GIGABYTE’s high-end Z690 Aorus Master competes. Video Part 1 (Overview) can be […]

GIGABYTE Z690 Aorus Master Video Review: Part 1

The first part of our two part series on the GIGABYTE Z690 Aorus Master includes unboxing the package, detailing the accessories, going over ports, slots, and headers, and ends with preparing the motherboard for the second part, which includes a teardown and IC analysis. Video Part 2 (Teardown and IC Analysis) can be found here.

Update on our past year

We had to take a long leave of absence for almost a year, and this video explains what happened with us over the past year and what’s to come in the future.

Intel Alder Lake vs. AMD Zen 3: Windows 11 vs. Windows 10 August 2022 results

Video version here. October 5th, 2021 marked the initial release of Microsoft’s Windows 11 OS. Soon after, many users started to notice lower performance on certain CPUs compared to Windows 10, and fixes were promised. Almost a year later we are here with results from our benchmark suite utilizing the latest Windows 11 update to […]

AMD Ryzen 7000-Series (Zen 4) event live stream-LIVE UPDATES

AMD is live streaming it’s anticipated Ryzen 7000-series processor (Zen 4) at 7PM EST on August 29th, 2022. We are providing live updates as they come in for users who can’t watch the livestream. If you missed the livestream, you can also watch it here after the live stream is finished. 19:00- US EST- Start […]

Intel i9 12900K and i5 12600K Review, Windows 10 Updated July 2022

Intel’s Alder Lake processors get a run through our benchmark suite with the latest Windows 10 July updates. Alder Lake CPUs use a hybrid die with P-cores being the high-power high-performance processor cores while the E-cores are meant for power efficiency and background tasks. Combining both on a single die with a shared cache is […]

ASRock’s AM5 launch lineup detailed with a total of five X670E motherboards

ASRock has been in business for 20 years now, and to celebrate the launch of AMD’s AM5 platform they are launching a custom motherboard; the X670E Taichi Carrara. Alongside the Carrara is the non-Carrara X670E Taichi, the mainstay of ASRock’s lineup. ASRock launched a total of five X670E motherboards, which is the most we have […]

GIGABYTE’s X670E Aorus Xtreme and X670E Aorus Master detailed

GIGABYTE is ready to launch its top tier X670E motherboards the X670E Aorus Xtreme and X670E Aorus Master. Let’s take a look at what GIGABYTE has to deliver by looking at slides recently presented at AMD’s Next Frontier of Ryzen Motherboards webinar. GIGABYTE started out by detailing their powerful voltage regulator solution for the new […]

ASUS AM5 Crosshair X670E Extreme and Crosshair X670E Hero detailed

ASUS debuted two motherboard models during the AMD X670 webinar; the ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme and the Crosshair X670E Hero. We will talk about them in more detail here, but for those who have been searching Google for information on the Crosshair IX Hero might want to instead Google “Crosshair X670E Hero” as ASUS has […]