CPU vs Chipset Lanes and Why It Actually Matters When you’re building or upgrading a system, it’s natural to start with the fun bits: drop in the GPU, populate a couple of M.2 slots, hook up SATA, pow...
ASUS Motherboard Front Panel USB 20Gbps with Quick Charge 4+ Many ASUS motherboards feature a USB 20Gbps Type-C front panel header with Quick Charge 4+ support, enabling both high-speed data transfer ...
Core Tuning and the Misdirection of Latency Benchmarks It is easy to get caught up in chasing the lowest latency number or the highest synthetic score, especially when screenshots are passed around,...
Introduction Many users enter the world of DRAM overclocking with high expectations, especially after purchasing pre-binned kits that promise extreme speeds and tight timings. The logic seems simple: ...
What is a Contact Frame? Contact frames for Intel CPUs, such as the popular 12th, 13th and 14th Gen processors on LGA1700 (and to a lesser extent FCLGA1851), are designed to improve cooling performanc...
ASUS's new DIMM Fit feature can provide additional stability when pushing DRAM overclocking to the edge by fine-tuning key parameters. What do you need to do? It's important to tune the system ...
Signal Integrity is the name of the game The further we push any frequency, the more important the signal margin becomes. This is especially true for DRAM as higher frequencies intensify the demand ...
If you are experiencing performance issues with your NVMe drives (e.g. low write performance), please ensure that the Alteration PCIe Mode switch is set to its default state. This switch on your mothe...
