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Like EK, Corsair has also announced new CPU water blocks for Intel Alder Lake CPUs. As part of Corsair's Hydro X series, the new XC5 RGB Pro and XC7 RGB Pro water blocks will come with RGB lighting and support for Intel LGA1700, as well as older Intel and AMD …

With the launch of Intel's 12th Gen Core processors swiftly approaching, those with early samples are starting to share information and benchmarks a bit more freely. The latest leak details overclocking the Core i9-12900K, and the amount of power the chip consumes when overclocked.  A poster on Bilibili (via @9550pro) …

The Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database never ceases to surprise us. An entry featuring an Intel Core i9-12900H laptop CPU has been found in the database, confirming it will come with 20x CPU threads and giving us a glimpse at how it performs. According to the entry found by …

This week, Corsair is announcing its own support for the upcoming Intel LGA 1700 socket, which will launch in a couple of weeks alongside Intel Alder Lake processors. While other cooler manufacturers are offering free mounting upgrade kits to customers, Corsair users will have to pay a small fee to …

As the launch of Intel Arc GPUs comes closer, we're learning more about the upcoming graphics cards. This week, Intel graphics lead, Raja Koduri, revealed more about the Arc GPU architecture, touching on supply, drivers, custom GPUs and crypto mining. 

We've seen a number of leaks regarding the Intel Core i9-12900K in recent weeks, but this time around, we finally have some results for the Core i7-12700K thanks to a leaked CPU-Z screenshot.  Compared to the i9-12900K, the i7-12700K feature four less efficient cores and should come with slightly lower …

Over the last year, Intel has begun planning new fab facilities in Europe, with financial support from the European Union. Since the EU is involved in the funding, the UK's exit from the European Union means that Intel did indeed strike the country off of its list for potential facility …

Renders of the alleged reference design of Intel's upcoming Arc Alchemist graphics card have been leaked. The render shows the reference design card will feature a two-fan cooling design in a long silver shroud and a black backplate with screen cooling. As reported by Moore's Law is Dead, the design …

What seems to be a leaked roadmap referring to Intel mobile consumer CPUs has been posted online, corroborating some rumours. Moreover, the roadmap also shows when production of the Alder Lake mobile platforms will start, giving us an idea of when we will see the first devices equipped with them. …

The same leaker that shared the first Cinebench R23 single-core benchmarks for the Intel core i9-12900K has recently posted CPU-Z screenshots of the upcoming processor paired with 32GB of DDR5-8000 memory. According to the CPU-Z screenshots shared by @hw_reveal, the system featured a Gigabyte Z690 Tachyon motherboard. The DDR5 memory …

It's starting to look like every CPU cooler manufacturer will be offering Intel LGA1700 mounting kits for those upgrading to an Alder Lake-S processor. This week, be quiet! and Phanteks joined the growing list.  With the increase in the size of the Intel LGA1700 socket, cooler manufacturers had to create …

Yesterday, we shared a rumour claiming the Intel Arc Alchemist line-up would include a 128EU-GPU. That particular rumour claimed the entry level GPU would feature 4GB or 8GB of memory, but a leaked photo suggests that it will actually ship with 6GB of VRAM across a 96-bit memory bus.  The …

Like several other cooler makers, MSI will also be offering a free upgrade kit so that users can continue to use their current CPU cooler on the upcoming Intel LGA 1700 socket. The new socket will launch on new motherboards alongside Intel's upcoming Alder Lake-S desktop processors, which may be …

With Intel's Alder Lake-S desktop processors set to launch very soon, we've been seeing more and more benchmark leaks. The Intel Core i9-12900K has been at the centre of most of these leaks, with the latest benchmark scores revealing strong single-core performance.  The screenshot shared on Bilibili (via VideoCardz) shows an unnamed …

New reports this week claim that the Intel Arc Alchemist GPU series will consist of three SKUs, from which two are based on the same GPU. These GPUs will be divided up based on the number of execution units (EUs), with the top-end GPU using 512 EUs, with the remaining …

More alleged benchmark results of the Intel Core i9-12900K have surfaced. Until now, we only had a multi-core score on Cinebench R23 and the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark result, but the latest leaks add single-core scores of two benchmarks to the mix.  The results shared by HXL come from …

Intel has been working on its big push into the desktop graphics card market for several years and in just a few months, we'll see the first Intel Arc ‘Alchemist' graphics cards hitting shelves. While no board partners have announced their plans officially yet, it would seem that we know …

Last night during its annual Surface event, Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Studio, a follow-up to the high-end Surface Book line of laptops. The new laptop will make the jump to the latest generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, as well as Nvidia RTX 30 series graphics.  The Surface …

In recent weeks, we've seen a number of benchmark results for the upcoming Intel Core i9-12900K, mostly coming from the Ashes of the Singularity database. Today, we seem to have the first Cinebench R23 result for the same processor, showing higher performance than a Ryzen 9 5950X.  The screenshots shared …

In an interview with ASCII, Raja Koduri, senior VP and GM of accelerated computing systems and graphics group at Intel, shared more details about the upcoming Intel Arc architecture. Moreover, Raja commented on XeSS compatibility and Intel Arc support for high-end applications and the workstation market. The interview conducted by …

Intel's discrete desktop graphics products are just a few months away and we are excited to see what they bring to the table. In this one, we discuss the upcoming GPUs and we also go off on a tangent about HDR, display technologies, video connections, and other (somewhat) related topics. Leo's secret admirer also makes a guest appearance...

Installing any update that requires a system restart is often seen as a chore. Intel will be making its own update process a little easier moving forward, as the company is said to be working on a new update system that allows for UEFI updates without a reboot.  According to Phoronix, …

We are finally back in person for another Leo and Luke discussion about some exciting tech topics. We start with a talk on Intel's upcoming 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs and the upcoming introduction of DDR5 memory. There's plenty to be excited about, so let's speculate rampantly...

We've been hearing a lot about DDR5 memory over the course of this year and with Intel's Alder Lake platform launch just on the horizon, we're finally starting to see some performance metrics. This week, the first DDR5 memory benchmarks appeared online, in addition to new benchmark results for the …

There have been plenty of rumours surrounding the level of performance Intel is targeting with its upcoming Arc ‘Alchemist' discrete graphics cards. A recently leaked slide from Intel may have some answers, as it compares the upcoming GPUs against the competition from Nvidia and AMD. The slide first appeared on …

With Alder Lake-S, Intel will be debuting the LGA1700 socket. This socket is known to be considerably different from most sockets for Intel Core processors, featuring a rectangular form. This means that current reference CPU coolers for Intel processors won't work, so Intel is apparently planning to refresh them. The …

The first leak of a mobile Intel Arc GPU stands before us. The Geekbench 5 database was recently updated with results for an unreleased laptop using the upcoming ‘Alchemist' mobile GPU with 512 execution units (EUs) paired with a Core i7-11800H. The benchmark listing, spotted by @Benchleaks, identifies the GPU …

Listings for two upcoming Gigabyte Z690 motherboards appeared online over the weekend, revealing pricing and specifications. From the looks of it, some Z690 motherboards may support DDR4 memory, while others will support the new DDR5 standard. The listings were spotted by @momomo_us, showing some of the specifications and prices for …

We've known for a while now that Intel plans to unveil its 12th Gen Core desktop processor line-up in Q4 2021. According to new reports this week, while an announcement will come earlier, Intel will apparently be releasing these processors on the 19th of November. New Z690 motherboards will release …

We're still a short while away from Intel launching its upcoming ‘Alder Lake-S' 12th Gen Core desktop processors, but retail pricing appears to have leaked already. Pricing information for K-series processors in Europe has been uncovered, both with and without VAT.  The prices leaked by @momomo_us come from three different dutch …