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 […]
19% gen-on-gen IPC vs 10th gen desktop CPUs sounds great—but the verdict is out on the importance of the “up to” hedge, or the impact of reduced core count in the i9 CPUs. [credit: Intel ] This week, Intel announced their 11th generation S-series desktop CPUs, code named Rocket Lake-S. These are gaming-oriented processors optimized […]