Happy New Year to everyone! Here is this year's first roundup of the latest reviews and articles:
Cooling: Deepcool AK620 Zero Dark Review
Graphics Cards: RDNA3 and too high hotspot temperatures on some AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) - Cause research
Headphones: Golden Ears: XENNS Mangird Top 8BA+1DD Hybrid IEM Review
Memory: TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan DDR5 6000MT/s – AMD EXPO
Motherboards: Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero Review: Holding Out for a Price Drop, Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master Review
Cooling:
Play3r: Deepcool AK620 Zero Dark Review
The Deepcool AK620 features a black aethetic, dual tower heatsink, comes with two FK120 4-pin PWM fans, and plenty of cooling performance on offer.
Deepcool AK620 Zero Dark Review
Graphics Cards:
IgorsLAB: RDNA3 and too high hotspot temperatures on some AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) - Cause research
Of course, you can discuss BIOS problems with the changed telemetry of the new RDNA3 cards, faulty thermal sensors in an alleged amok mode or even tangible mech
RDNA3 and too high hotspot temperatures on some AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) - Cause research
Headphones:
MMORPG.com: Golden Ears: XENNS Mangird Top 8BA+1DD Hybrid IEM Review
XENNS is back with its latest pair of earphones, and we're here for it with this edition of Golden Ears. They're uber premium but do they offer high enough sound quality to be one of the best IEMs of 2022? Find out in this review.
Golden Ears: XENNS Mangird Top 8BA+1DD Hybrid IEM Review | MMORPG.com
Memory:
KitGuru: TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan DDR5 6000MT/s – AMD EXPO
When Luke reviewed the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X HERE he told us ‘the new memory sweet spot is DDR5 6000MHz with tight latencies in 2x16GB form' and that AMD is ‘partnering with memory vendors to implement EXPO'. So you can imagine my delight as I unpacked a 32GB kit of TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan α DDR5-6000 C38 that supports EXPO.
TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan DDR5 6000MT/s – AMD EXPO | KitGuru
Motherboards:
Tom's Hardware: Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero Review: Holding Out for a Price Drop
High-end hardware and premium appearance, at a premium price
Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero Review: Holding Out for a Price Drop
KitGuru: Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master Review
The Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master comes with a list of impressive features as long as your arm, including twenty 105A power stages, five M.2 SSD slots, DDR5 support up to 8000MHz, as well as 10Gb Ethernet. That's all well and good, but we can safely say this is also the first motherboard we've ever encountered that promises to count our Biscuits… What on earth is going on?!
Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master Review | KitGuru
