Enlarge / Our test rig marries the Alder Lake i9-12900K (pictured) or an i5-12600K with 64G DDR5 SDRAM, an MSI Carbon motherboard, SK Hynix Gold NVMe SSD, and Apex Gaming 850M PSU. Cooling is provided by a Corsair fluid cooler and triple fan radiator. (credit: Jim Salter) After spending several days with Intel’s newest consumer […]
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Intel 11th-generation Rocket Lake-S gaming CPUs did not impress us
Enlarge / Our test rig is a little more unlovely than usual, due to Asus’ decision to entomb the CPU socket in surrounding high-rise heatsinks, with the system’s RAM closing in just as tightly from the bottom. (Note the empty pair of DIMM slots.) (credit: Jim Salter) Today marks the start of retail availability for […]