AMD Cezanne ‘refresh’ codenamed Barcelo coming to Ryzen 5000 series

With the announcement of the Ryzen 5000 series, AMD made a questionable choice to mix Zen3 based Cezanne chips with Lucienne based on Zen2. The latter was more or less a Renoir silicon refresh, although the company refused to call it this way.

It seems that the next generation featuring Zen3+ will be exclusive to Ryzen 6000 series as the

Intel Core i9-12900K has a maximum Turbo Boost Max 3.0 frequency of 5.0 GHz

Intel flagship Alder Lake-S CPU has been pictured in a retail form for the first time.

No more laser engraving for engineering or qualification samples as pictures of the first retail and final version of the processor have been posted by DDAA117 on Chinese social media. The photos confirm the SKU names of the Core i5-12600K and Core i

GeForce RTX 3080Ti/3060 blank screen issue fix

NVIDIA quietly provides a firmware update for two of its graphics cards solving a DisplayPort-connected monitors bug.

Probably unbeknownst to many users, two of the GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards are experiencing issues with the monitor’s DisplayID, causing blank screens during boot. Apparently, this issue has been known to NVIDIA and they already have a fix. Unfortunately, it will require a firmware update.

What this means is that users who are

Matrox Celebrates 45 Years of Technology Innovation

Marking more than four decades of continued innovation through constant reinvention and an enduring commitment to technical excellence

DDR5 to be a lot more expensive than DDR4

While motherboard makers are now slowly revealing the design of their next-gen Intel 600 series motherboards, memory manufacturers are busy shipping new modules to retailers. Both products should become available at the same time, which is November 4th, the official launch date and sales embargo for Intel Alder Lake CPUs and Z690 motherboards.

There does not appear to be an embargo on the DDR5 memory itself though, in fact, some brands have already

AMD Rembrandt APU spotted alongside DDR5-4800 memory

The first trace of the new Ryzen 6000 series APU codenamed Rembrandt has been discovered in the UserBenchmark database.

The processors with an OPN code of 100-000000518-41_N are listed with a base clock of 3.9 GHz and a boost clock of 4.1 GHz. We actually know this is a next-gen CPU because it is listed with an FP7

AORUS Z690 XTREME, flagship features from Gigabyte

These might be the first photographs of the top-of-the-line Z690 motherboard.

Gigabyte is launching AORUS Z690 XTREME Gaming board with PCIe Gen5 and DDR5 support on November 4th. This is the flagship design featuring all the bells and whistles that the company has to offer. This is also an Extended ATX form factor design and is often reserved for high-end SKUs such as the AORUS series.

The specs

G.SKILL Announces World’s Fastest DDR5-6600 CL36 Trident Z5 Memory Kits

Overclocked Intel Core i9-12900K outperforms Ryzen 9 5950X in CPUZ multi-thread test

Bilibili content creator 热心市民描边怪 published the results of the upcoming Alder Lake Core i9 processor with all ‘big’ cores overclocked to 5.2 GHz.

According to the screenshot from the CPU-Z benchmark, the Core i9-12900K scored 851 points in