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AMD Radeon Resizable Bar Benchmarks
With the recent issues discovered by Hardware Unboxed regarding resizable bar, I decided to take a look at our own test bench. Currently, we test with resizable bar on. This will be an ongoing test series but for today, we’ll be looking exclusively at the Radeon 6900XT. …but before that I’d like to take …
AMD Radeon 6900XT in 2023 Benchmarks
Small Form Factor Network is continuing to update its internal benchmarks charts and I thought I would take a moment to share our AMD Radeon 6900XT reference design results. I purchased this card directly from AMD when they were liquidating them some months ago. I tested it on our 12900K open bench test rig. …
Is RGB CRIPPLING Your CPU Performance?!
RGB…Red…Green… Blue… It might be killing your CPU’s performance! Yes those glorious lights were once thought to actually boost your CPU’s max turbo, increase your RAM, double your SSD speed, and triple your accuracy. Scary new rumors…ahem…information has now come to light that RGB is actually not the greatest and most important thing ever. …
ErYing Delivers a Fantasy SFF Motherboard
Chinese motherboard manufacturer (尔英) ErYing has released a “Fantasy” series motherboard featuring Intel 12th generation Alder Lake CPU’s, except it’s not what you might think. The CPU’s available are mobile variants with a 45W base TDP and soldered to the motherboard. It looks like it can use a standard intel cooler mount however, and might …
Quick Test – AMD Resizable Bar vs Nvidia Resizable Bar
Recently, Hardware Unboxed tested the effect of using resizable bar on their Z790 Intel test bench. They discovered that Gigabyte boards show substantial performance improvements in certain games over other brands, when paired with an RTX 4090. Primarily this was in Horizon Zero Dawn. Ultimately, they determined that the Gigabyte boards had resizable bar …
Framework Next Level Event Answers Every Rumor with “Yes”
Framework, a startup laptop company that launched it’s first product in 2021, announced a plethora of products at it’s Next Level event this morning. The basic premise behind the company is that it wants to reduce e-waste by making upgradeable laptops so you only replace the parts you need/want. They also offer a level of …
Hardware Unboxed Discovers Resizable Bar Performance Issues
Steve from Hardware unboxed, seen above pointing out the next set of companies that won’t send him samples after his videos, discovered an interesting issue when setting up his latest Z790 test system. While he was doing so, he found that the Gigabyte boards substantially outperformed other models in Horizon Zero Dawn and Spiderman …
Minisforum UM690 (6900HX) Review
Today the UM690 follows up on our previous reviews of Minisforum mini PCs. Unlike the previous two reviews, we now have RDNA2 graphics and Zen 3+ CPU cores, which should offer a significant uptick in performance across the board. As you may recall from the UM480 review, I was not particularly impressed with the chassis …