Hardware
Intel Z390: Overview of all motherboards for the i9-9900K launch
Intel’s Z390 platform is the successor of Z370 for the Coffee Lake Refresh generation. We have collected all upcoming motherboards as an overview.
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AMD
AMD Zen 2 might feature 13% more IPC than Zen+
AMD’s Zen 2 architecture will soon be available in the first products. A leak shows that Zen 2 allegedly has 13 percent more IPC than Zen+.
AMD
Polaris 30: AMD Radeon RX 590 with benchmark leaked
AMD allegedly plans a new version of Polaris as Polaris 30 with 12nm structure width. A leaked RX 590 with benchmark confirms this.
Graphics card
Nvidia Turing: full review of a MSI RTX 2070 Gaming Z leaked
The guys from HardOCP got an RTX 2070 from MSI early. Since they are not subject to any Nvidia NDA, they have published a review in advance.
Hardware
Intel doesn’t solder the 28 core Xeon W-3175X
Intel starts soldering the heatspreaders again with this year’s processors. However, the 28-core Xeon W-3175X of all things isn’t supposed to be soldered.
Graphics card
der8auer washes his hardware in the dishwasher
Extreme overclockers often work with Vaseline to protect the hardware from condensation. For cleaning, der8auer puts his hardware into the dishwasher.
AMD
i9-9900K: Ryzen 7 2700X is getting cheaper and cheaper
While the Intel Core i9-9900K is really expensive at start, AMD is taking the chance and makes the Ryzen 7 2700X cheaper.
Graphics card
Nvidia Turing RTX 2070 benchmark leaked out
In a few days, Nvidia’s cheapest raytracing graphics card, the RTX 2070, will be launched. A 3DMark Time Spy result from the Turing card has now been leaked.
Graphics card
Nvidia: eight Turing Mobile GPUs leaked, launch at CES 2019
After the launch of the Nvidia Turing models for desktop, the mobile models will soon also be released. The first models are already expected at CES 2019.
Hardware
i9-9900K: OC up to 5.3 GHz with water cooling and 7.1 GHz with LN2
The overclocker slave overclocked the Core i9-9900K directly at the Intel event. It reaches 5.3 GHz with water cooling and 7.1 GHz with liquid nitrogen.