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It's cool to see Thermalright expanding into other products beyond coolers. My first Thermalright cooler was an SI-97. Their products always seem like high quality for the price in my opinion.

Bring it on intel! Kind of ugly looking, no?

I was thinking the same thing when I saw the 24 cores description. I knew it was a mix of two different cores, but thought at least the i9 would have a majority of big cores. Shouldn't these chips be on intel 10nm+ node? Or whatever the crazy new name for intel's nodes are...

Thanks for the great review Brent! The power consumption increase to go from 4.8 to 5.0ghz with Adaptive Boost enabled, wow. Impressive putting that 280mm AIO to work. Overall the potential platform dead end is tough to swallow given the 11900's price vs the other tested CPUs.

LoL nicely said. I agree 👍

7nm Intel sounds good, I hope it turns out better than 10nm. AMD will probably be on 5nm TSMC, but I'm guessing intel 7nm will be about equal to TSMC 5nm?

I'm surprised, I was expecting Intel to be about 3% faster than AMD. Since this is the 11700 being compared, is there some magic sauce in the 8 core 11900 to put Intel back on top of the octa-core heap? Because increased latency within the chip itself can only be compensated by increasing...

6nm node? Who's manufacturing that? Is it just CPU architecture that intel can't move off of 14nm with good yields?

Totally, the Ultra branding by Nvidia has been around for a long time, since Geforce2. Then Geforce FX really abused the Ultra branding. Nvidia should leave the Ultra branding for the top non titan level card, 3080ultra. Just my 2 cents.

Thanks for the review on this Brent. I agree these results seem like a let down. However, I think you hit the nail on the head about your test card being "just" an AMD reference card. I wonder if custom cards can take the Rage mode idea and run with it. It would be a shame to bring back the...

I can remember playing both Goodeneye and Perfect Dark on N64 with friends. Perfect Dark was definitely the one I enjoyed more. Perfect Dark and a bottle of Jolt cola, good times!

Thanks for the review! I've always liked the Antec brand and product line. I've used 4 of their power supplies in pc builds in the past, going back to '05 thru '09. Glad to see Antec is still at it.

I'm interested, how many CU's you think the cut down Navi 21 will have? 64 or maybe 70?

I like the 3 fan design with the red accent over the 2 fan cooler. I kind of assume with Radeon that it's going to be black and red anyway. I have no issue with the cooler being very similar to a 2080ti cooler as long as it performs well. Also these are just reference cards/coolers right? Asus...

Good read, the pcie gen 4 question was something I was wondering about. It would be great if AMD could land a card at least between the 3080 and 3090. However, we'll probably get a liquid cooled, pre overclocked card at its redline landing between the 3070 and 3080, or within a few percentage...

Thanks for the review! That's a sweet looking and performing board. Interesting the performance difference difference between the 2 m.2 slots, pci-e 4/3. Thanks for that analysis 👍

Let's get down to brass tacks, how much for the A850GF?

I don't know, I'm not buying this 8nm "leak." I'd be surprised if Ampere wasn't on TSMC 7nm, is Samsung's 8nm even capable of producing a high end chip like GA100? Wouldn't the die size be even larger, reducing yields vs TSMC? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I like it! Well done, looking forward to reading some AIO reviews!

What I am learning from this flagship z490 lga 1200 motherboard and the recent Gigabyte, is that these 10th gen intel core enthusiasts will make up a niche market of diy watercoolers. Tweaking a 10900kf will probably require diy water to cool. I dig these monoblock designed boards but...