Intel Panther Lake Deep Dive: Intel on 18A
Panther Lake is Intel’s first mainstream client platform expected to lean fully into the company’s post-FinFET playbook: RibbonFET transistors, PowerVia backside power delivery, heavy use […]
Guides
The Hidden World of NPUs: Do You Really Need AI Engines in Your PC?
The Hidden World of NPUs: Do You Really Need AI Engines in Your PC? “AI PC” is the slogan; the NPU is the silicon behind […]
DDR5 Deep-Dive — Real Latency, Gear Ratios, and Tuning That Actually Matters
DDR5 Deep-Dive: Real Latency, Gear Ratios, and Tuning That Actually Matters Sticker speeds don’t tell the whole story. With DDR5, real-world performance is a tug-of-war […]
PCIe Explained: From 1.0 to 8.0 — Bandwidth, Bottlenecks, and the Road to 9.0
PCIe Explained: From 1.0 to 8.0 — Bandwidth, Bottlenecks, and the Road to 9.0 PCIe is the plumbing of modern PCs. GPUs, SSDs, NICs, capture […]
Intel Z890 Motherboard Mega Guide (2025) — ASUS, ASRock, GIGABYTE & MSI
What this guide is (and isn’t) — Z890 for LGA1851 / Core Ultra (Series 2) looks simple on a datasheet, but real builds succeed or […]
VRM Deep Dive 2025: How Motherboard Power Design, Load-Line & LLC Shape Stability, Thermals, and Real-World Performance
Table of contents VRM fundamentals: what your CPU is really asking for The control loop you never see: SVID (Intel) and SVI3 (AMD) Phases, doublers, […]
Which SSD Should You Buy? The 2025 NVMe Mega Guide
This is a lab-grade SSD buyer’s guide written for builders who care about real performance, predictable behavior under heat and heavy writes, and platform fit—not […]
Which GPU Should You Buy? The 2025 Mega Guide to Shaders, VRAM, Bandwidth & Real-World Performance
Stop shopping by shader counts and start with physics. This GPU buyer’s guide explains—in long, lab-grade paragraphs—how shader architecture, cache hierarchy, VRAM capacity and bandwidth, […]
Which CPU Should You Buy? The 2025 Mega Guide to Cores, Cache, Memory & Real-World Performance
This expanded edition turns the guide into a lab manual. You get engineering explanations in long-form paragraphs, then reproducible procedures: how to measure cache residency, […]
VRMs Demystified — Why Your Motherboard’s Power Delivery Matters More Than RGB
CPU reviews obsess over cores and clocks. Motherboards get judged by colours and ports. The most important part—the VRM—usually gets a paragraph and a shrug. […]