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Intel Core i9-10900K Stress Tested: Comet Lake Flagship Hits 93°C

Intel Core i9-10900K

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A Chinese Weibo user has pushed a flagship Intel Comet Lake-S CPU to its limits. The tester cooked an Intel COre i9-10900K for a little over 47 minutes with its  power draw and maximum temperatures hitting 235W and 93 degrees Celsius (199.4 degrees Fahrenheit), respectively.

The i9-10900K features a 10- core , 20- thread design with a 3

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Intel Core i5-10400 Benchmarked: Comet Lake CPU Edges Out i5-9400F

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Intel recently announced its new Comet Lake-S desktop CPUs , and someone over at the Chiphell forums has already shared some benchmark figures that give us a hint of what we can expect from the Intel Core i5-10400.

Specs

Intel Core i5-10400Intel Core i5-9400F
Cores / Threads6 / 126 / 6
Base Clock2.9 GHz2.9 GHz
Boost Clock4.3
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Intel Reportedly Reserves 28-W Ice Lake Chips Exclusively for Apple

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Intel's new 10th-Gen Ice Lake chips (not to be confused with the just-announced 10th-Gen Comet Lake-S chips ) have received quite some attention for their interesting new chip configuration. The most powerful chip in the lineup was the Core i7-1068G7 -- and we say was because Intel has just removed it from their chip databases , and it has not yet shipped in any products.

In exchange,


Asus ZenBook Duo UX481 Review: Dual-Screen Ultraportable

Our Verdict

The Asus ZenBook Duo UX481 is the best dual-screen laptop yet, combining good battery life with an intuitive UI in a 3.3-pound package. Just know that the keyboard and touchpad suffer greatly to make room for the second display.

For

  • Reasonably thin and light for a dual-screen laptop
  • Intuitive control software for managing the second screen
  • Very good batter life for a dual-screen laptop

Against

  • Second screen means small keys and a tiny touchpad
  • Mostly middling performance
Asus ZenBook Duo UX481
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be quiet! Pure Rock 2 Review: Quiet, Affordable Performance

Our Verdict

Shifting focus from the upper stratosphere of high-end air cooling, be quiet! delivers the Pure Rock 2 as a down-to-Earth, performance-value gem for the budget-conscious masses that's also very quiet.

For

  • Budget price
  • Silent operation
  • Attractive design

Against

  • Thermal performance trails off at low fan speeds

Long revered for its ability to turn out quality cooling products

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HP EX900 Pro M.2 SSD Offers Major Performance and Endurance Upgrades

HP EX900 Pro

HP EX900 Pro (Image credit: Biwin Storage Technology)

HP will soon release a drive that looks like a replica of the original HP EX900 SSD . As spotted by hardware publication Guru3D , HP's unannounced EX900 Pro M.2 SSD has been listed with substantial performance and endurance uplifts.

The EX900 Pro still comes in the M.2 2280 form factor with a single-sided design and slides into your regular PCIe 3.

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Alienware m15 Gaming Laptop Drops to $1,322

Alienware M15 Gaming Laptop
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Dell’s Alienware m15 Gaming laptop is currently on sale for $1,322.99 on Target, offering customers an opportunity to snag this 9th Gen Intel Core i7 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660Ti powered machine for $377 off its usual $1,699.99 price point. That’s a 22% discount.

The Alienware m15 also sports a 15.6 inch 1

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Asus ROG Strix XG17AHPE 240Hz Portable Monitor Review: Expensive Innovation

Our Verdict

As a 240 Hz portable monitor, the XG17AHPE is in a class all its own. Besides speed, it also brings a quality IPS panel fit for gaming and work. But it's more expensive than some of the best (and larger) 240 Hx desktop monitors.

For

  • HDMI, USB-C and USB-A connectivity
  • Loud speakers
  • Great viewing angles
  • Easy-to-access OSD with many options

Against

  • More expensive than a good 240 Hz desktop monitor
  • Questionable
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Intel SSDs Moving to 144 Layer QLC Flash, Optane Getting PCIe 4.0

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Although Intel has been making some noise in the CPU department lately with Comet Lake-S , it's been nothing but silence from their memory solutions group. However, it looks like that's about to change, as the folks at Blocks & Files just got the scoop on Intel's plans for the vendor's next-gen SSDs , including its 2nd Generation Optane SSDs.

Going along with the current trend in NAND, Intel is stacking its flash memory to 1


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Mysterious AMD Ryzen 7 Extreme Edition, Ryzen 9 4900U Chips Surface

AMD Ryzen 4000-series APU

AMD Ryzen 4000-series APU (Image credit: AMD)

It looks like AMD may be preparing a new, and more extreme, version of one its Ryzen 4000 mobile APUs . Hardware detective @TUM_APISAK unearthed 3DMark benchmark results today for a "Ryzen 7 Extreme Edition" CPU presumed to be Renoir.

It's weird seeing the words "Extreme Edition" in an AMD processor name. That naming is more of an Intel practice that dates all the way back to the

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