ASRock Z490 PG Velocita motherboard review and testing. Experimenting with overclocking the Core i7-10700K

ASRock’s team of specialists never ceases to go for bold experiments, regularly equipping products with features that are not found in competitors. Rocket Lake-S processors are still in development, and here they have already provided a specialized M.2 port for the needs of high-speed SSDs with PCI Express 4.0 interface. It won’t work with current …

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ASUS ROG Strix B560-A Gaming WiFi motherboard review and testing. Introducing the Intel B560 Chipset with the Core i7-10700K Processor

Together with the release of Rocket Lake-S processors to the market, developers from Intel proposed new chipsets of the “500th” series. Now boards based on the older Z590 solution are equipped with two CPU power sockets and an unprecedented power subsystem, since the appetites of computing units grow quite noticeably after forcing high power limits, …

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MSI MPG Z590 Gaming Force motherboard review and testing. Experimenting with overclocking the Intel Core i7-11700K

MSI’s efforts to capture the attention of new customers have led to the inclusion of the Gaming Force product in the lineup. The emphasis is on a catchy design, the color of radiators and stickers is far from the monochrome colors that are widely used on the market. The board was not developed from scratch, …

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G.Skill Trident Z Royal F4-4000C17D-32GTRSB 4000 MHz 32 GB memory kit review

G.Skill products have been on our market for more than 10 years and during all this time they have gained wide popularity among enthusiasts and overclockers due to the excellent potential of advanced solutions. The Trident Z series has proven itself well, which has become the main one for this manufacturer and whose representatives differ …

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Review and testing of motherboard ASUS Prime B560-Plus. diligent internship

High-level motherboards attract the attention of all enthusiasts, however, ordinary, inexpensive devices also find their buyers. The cheapest ASUS products turned out to be assembled in the Prime family, and the letter index of the model directly indicates segmentation within the line. In the current situation, it is the board chosen for review that occupies …

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Review and testing of the Intel Pentium Gold G7400 processor. Well, why not four cores?

Yes, this is the thought that many will have when they first encounter this processor. The same Celeron G6900 suffers terribly from two physical cores, and in terms of computing power, it is able to surpass the outdated Core i5 of the Sandy/Ivy Bridge era! Today’s CPU is noticeably more cheerful due to the support …

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Review and testing of GoodRAM IRDM Ultimate X PCIe GEN 4 x4 NVMe M.2 1000 GB SSD. SSD for Ryzen

Wilk Elektronik, which owns the GoodRAM brand, continues to delight us with its latest innovations, and this time we will look at another NVMe SSD. But if our last guest was an ordinary bufferless model, today’s one is a progressive solution with PCI Express 4.0 support. There are not many such drives now and they …

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Overview of the main events of 2020. Processors and platforms

Of course, the events of the outgoing year will be remembered for a long time, and often not in the most positive way. If we consider only the hardware market, then the second half of 2020 turned out to be very fruitful. Both GPU makers have launched high-end graphics cards, next-gen gaming consoles from Sony …

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Overview of the main events of 2020. Consoles, memory and new trends

For the hardware industry, 2020 has been a very mixed year. On the one hand, new generations of gaming video cards and AMD Zen 3 processors have come out that have changed the balance of power in the desktop CPU segment, and on the other hand, the notorious COVID-19 has brought a lot of problems …

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ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Hero motherboard review. functional hero

The Intel 500 series chipsets for the LGA1200 platform were introduced in mid-January this year, as were the boards on them, but the processors based on the Rocket Lake-S core were released only a week ago. Perhaps the chip maker wanted to fill the inventory of new products, or maybe the motherboard manufacturers simply did …

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