introduction At Seagate's invitation, a few days ago, along with colleagues from England and France, we had the opportunity to visit the hard disk printhead plant in Derry, Northern Ireland, and to have a little chat with the engineers. The result was not only an insight into the production of print heads for hard drives…
Huawei's HiSilicon chip company presented the SoC of the Mate 30 Pro at the IFA. The Kirin 990 comes in two versions: with and without 5G. The 5G modem no longer has to be installed as an additional chip. This saves space and potentially reduces energy consumption. HiSilicon also offers its own Kirin A1 Bluetooth…
At the same time as the Kaby Lake processors, Intel is introducing five new desktop chipsets. BitcoinMinersHashrate takes a look at four mainboards with the new Z270-PCH, which mark the spearhead in the classic desktop. ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte and MSI each provided one of their first solutions for the test. New year, new motherboards New…
– The Outer Worlds was released a week ago. The title is popular with the trade press and players. So it is high time to take a closer look at the technology of the PC version. Even for an “AA” title, however, this is only average. The optics are correct, but there is a lack…
introduction Various hard drive series for desktop systems, laptops, servers, the multimedia sector or with low power consumption have been around for years. What was missing so far was a product range specially designed for use in NAS systems. As of today, this market will be served by Western Digital with the "WD Red NAS…
– The Intel Core i9-9900KS is a limited special edition of the one year old i9-9900K with up to 5.0 GHz in all turbo levels. It marks the new gaming reference for an officially low surcharge with higher power consumption and is also overclockable thanks to binning. However, efficiency suffers significantly. Even before AMD released…
With the launch of AMD's AM4 platform for Ryzen 7 1800X, 1700X and 1700, many providers of CPU coolers are offering free and paid installation kits for retrofitting. BitcoinMinersHashrate provides an overview of the announced possibilities of numerous manufacturers and details about the ordering process. That changes with the AM4 socket With the AM4 socket,…
– The current mid-range power supplies MasterWatt and RevoBron from Cooler Master and Enermax do not make any compromises in terms of equipment and fan quality in the test. However, this makes them expensive, which is why they are difficult against the more efficient and quieter competition from be quiet! and Corsair can exist. Cool…
– With the tech demo "Neon Noir", Crytek demonstrated in March 2019 how ray tracing effects can be mapped without using Microsoft DXR and thus dedicated ray tracing hardware as in Nvidia's Turing GPUs. Now the tech demo is available as a benchmark and BitcoinMinersHashrate calls the community to test it. Voxel-based ray tracing Crytek…
