WORTH
£A be quiet!
DARK BASE PRO
900 CASE!
WIN!WIN!
What’s that?
Our pals at be quiet! are offering a Dark Base Pro
900 Rev. 2 Silver case to one Custom PC reader.
The image above is a distorted close-up of a piece
of hardware featured in this issue. If you identify it,
email the name and page number of the product to
[email protected], with ‘What’s
that? 200’ in the Subject field, as well as your
postal address.Previous winners
The winner from our Issue 198 competition was David
Nash, who correctly identified the ARCTIC Freezer 50
TR CPU cooler from p24. Congratulations David, we’ll
be in touch shortly to get your prize sorted out.
Terms & conditionsCompetition closes on Friday 3 April. Please see p99 for our competition terms
and conditions.64CORE AMD
THREADRIPPER LANDS
The first desktop PC CPU with 64 cores has now launched. The AMD Threadripper 3990X is
now the most powerful CPU in its class by an almost embarrassing distance, going well beyond
what any home PC could reasonably need. The specification is mighty, with 64 cores
(and 128 threads via SMT), a base clock of 2.9GHz and a
maximum boost clock up to 4.3GHz.
There’s also a huge 256MB total of
L3 cache. The overclocking potential
is also faintly terrifying, with the world
record clock speed currently sitting
at 5.57GHz, achieved by the Korean
overclocking team Safedisk.
However, with a price of £3,
inc VAT from scan.co.uk, the 3990X
is out of the reach of most people’s
finances, and most desktop software
isn’t optimised for such a large number
of cores yet either. As a statement
of technological prowess, though,
it’s going to take some beating.
PHIL HARTUPINTEL PLANNING MORE POWERFUL GPUS
Tech website digitaltrends.com claims to have been leaked a document, which suggests that
Intel has plans for much more powerful GPUs than the relatively unthreatening DG1 device it
showed off at CES earlier this year. The DG1 has a thermal design power (TDP) of 75W, which
is at the very low end when it comes to GPUs. However, according to the document, Intel is
planning GPUs with TDPs of 75W, 150W, 300W and 400/500W.
The document references ‘Tile modules’ on the GPUs. The smallest model in the line-up
featuring a single Tile, the next one has two and then you finally get Tiles on the
400W/500W TDP model.INTEL CORE i910900K BENCHMARKS SURFACE
A new set of benchmarks for the Intel Core i9-10900K has
surfaced from Twitter user @TUM_APISAK, which posted
screenshots of the CPU apparently running the 3DMark
Firestrike and Time Spy tests. In the screenshots, the Core
i9-10900K scored 28,462 on the Firestrike physics
test and 13,142 on the Time Spy CPU test. Posted
alongside these screenshots are the equivalent
scores for the AMD Ryzen R9 3900X,
showing a Firestrike test score of 27,
and a Time Spy score of 12,624.Rumour control
PHIL HARTUP’S ROUNDUP OF THE LATEST UNCONFIRMED
TECH GOSSIP. TAKE THESE STORIES WITH THE APPROPRIATE
PINCH OF SALT2 .9GHz and aWORTH
£A be quiet!
DARK BASE PRO
900 CASE!
WIN!WIN!
What’s that?
Our pals at be quiet! are offering a Dark Base Pro
900 Rev. 2 Silver case to one Custom PC reader.
The image above is a distorted close-up of a piece
of hardware featured in this issue. If you identify it,
email the name and page number of the product to
[email protected], with ‘What’s
that? 200’ in the Subject field, as well as your
postal address.Previous winners
The winner from our Issue 198 competition was David
Nash, who correctly identified the ARCTIC Freezer 50
TR CPU cooler from p24. Congratulations David, we’ll
be in touch shortly to get your prize sorted out.
Terms & conditionsCompetition closes on Friday 3 April. Please see p99 for our competition terms
and conditions.64CORE AMD
THREADRIPPER LANDS
The first desktop PC CPU with 64 cores has now launched. The AMD Threadripper 3990X is
now the most powerful CPU in its class by an almost embarrassing distance, going well beyond
what any home PC could reasonably need.Thespecification is mighty, with 64 cores
(and 128 threads via SMT), a base clockof2 9GH d
maximum boost clock up to 4.3GHz.
There’s also a huge 256MB total of
L3 cache. The overclocking potential
is also faintly terrifying, with the world
record clock speed currently sitting
at 5.57GHz, achieved by the Korean
overclocking team Safedisk.
However, with a price of £3,
inc VAT from scan.co.uk, the 3990X
is out of the reach of most people’s
finances, and most desktop software
isn’t optimised for such a large number
of cores yet either. As a statement
of technological prowess, though,
it’s going to take some beating.
PHIL HARTUPINTEL PLANNING MORE POWERFUL GPUS
Tech website digitaltrends.com claims to have been leaked a document, which suggests that
Intel has plans for much more powerful GPUs than the relatively unthreatening DG1 device it
showed off at CES earlier this year. The DG1 has a thermal design power (TDP) of 75W, which
is at the very low end when it comes to GPUs. However, according to the document, Intel is
planning GPUs with TDPs of 75W, 150W, 300W and 400/500W.
The document references ‘Tile modules’ on the GPUs. The smallest model in the line-up
featuring a single Tile, the next one has two and then you finally get Tiles on the
400W/500W TDP model.INTEL CORE i910900K BENCHMARKS SURFACE
A new set of benchmarks for the Intel Core i9-10900K has
surfaced from Twitter user @TUM_APISAK, which posted
screenshots of the CPU apparently running the 3DMark
Firestrike and Time Spy tests. In the screenshots, the Core
i9-10900K scored 28,462 on the Firestrike physics
test and 13,142 on the Time Spy CPU test. Posted
alongside these screenshots are the equivalent
scores for the AMD Ryzen R9 3900X,
showing a Firestrike test score of 27,
and a Time Spy score of 12,624.Rumour control
PHIL HARTUP’S ROUNDUP OF THE LATEST UNCONFIRMED
TECH GOSSIP. TAKE THESE STORIES WITH THE APPROPRIATE
PINCH OF SALT2 .9GHz and a