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CES 2021: Intel Announces 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S Desktop Processors

January 11, 2021TWGHardware

Aside from the massive up to 19% IPC improvement claim, other features from Rocket Lake-S include native DDR4-3200 support (now at parity with AMD Ryzen CPUs there), as well as an increase in overall PCI Express lanes – from 16 to 20. Oh, and they are PCE Express 4.0 lanes now (more on this shortly). […]

ASRock Rack Delivers PCI Express 4.0 Card with Quad x4 M.2 Support

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020TWGHardware

It should come as no surprise that the ASRock Rack has provided another unusual and delightful addition to the world of PC hardware, and though intended for enterprise one wonders just what could be done with the product named RB4M2_G4. As you can see from the above photo, this RB4M2_G4 is a PCI Express x16 […]

Samsung 980 PRO PCI Express 4.0 NVMe SSD Review

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020TWGHardware0

The most interesting aspect of the 980 PRO – in this author’s opinion – is the adoption of the design methodology previously reserved for Samsung’s consumer EVO SSD lineup. Gone is the 2-bit MLC, with 3-bit NAND (usually called TLC, but referred to as 3-bit MLC in Samsung’s documentation for the 980 PRO) finding its […]