Sebastian Peak | PC Perspective

XFX Mercury Radeon RX 7900 XTX Magnetic Air Graphics Card Review

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:18:09 +0000

Imagine that you are considering a new high-end graphics card for your PC, and that you have $979.99 USD to spend. Now imagine that you're thinking about an AMD Radeon RX…

AMD Announces Ryzen 9000 Series Desktop Processors

Sebastian Peak — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:24:49 +0000

Computex 2024 is underway and AMD has made their expected Zen 5 desktop CPU announcement. Multiple Ryzen 9000 Series processors have been introduced, including the new AM5 flagship Ryzen 9 9950X, and…

Video Review: CORSAIR 6500X Mid-Tower Dual Chamber PC Case

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 22 May 2024 22:46:19 +0000

We last looked at one of Corsair's iterations on their dual chamber mid-tower design with the tempered glass-infused Crystal Series 680X RGB. But that was five years ago, and now we…

AMD Officially Launches Ryzen 7 8000 F-Series Desktop Processors

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 15 May 2024 18:17:51 +0000

AMD has now officially launched their new Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F processors, after reports of a quiet initial release in China surfaced a few days ago. With these…

Falcon Northwest Mitigation Strategy Paves Way to Fixing Intel 13th and 14th Gen Stability Woes

Sebastian Peak — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:43:53 +0000

The reality is beginning to set in: default motherboard values are indeed a problem for Intel’s last two generations of Core i9 desktop processors. Who would have guessed that what amounted to…

HighPoint Claims Industry 1st with 8-Channel PCIe Gen5 x16 NVMe Switch & RAID

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:04:14 +0000

What happens when you put Broadcom's 48-lane, 48-port, PCI Express Gen 5.0 ExpressFabric Platform (PEX89048) on a PCI Express card with multiple M.2 slots? You get the RocketRAID 7600 and Rocket…

NVIDIA Launching RTX A400 and RTX A1000: Single-Slot 50W Workstation GPUs

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:27:32 +0000

NVIDIA has announced a pair of workstation graphics cards - the RTX A400 and RTX A1000 - and while the cards are new they are based on the previous-gen Ampere architecture. And…

CORSAIR M75 WIRELESS Lightweight RGB Gaming Mouse Quick Review

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:57:08 +0000

Corsair's latest wireless mouse, the M75 WIRELESS which the company sent over for this review, is an understated-looking product with a modest RGB implementation and - more importantly - an ambidextrous design.

This…

ECSIPC LIVA Z5 PLUS Mini PC Review

Sebastian Peak — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:56:09 +0000

It has been nearly ten years since I first went hands on with one of the LIVA mini PCs from ECS, with that original LIVA in 2014 the smallest personal computer…

MAINGEAR Does the Unthinkable – Will Ship PCs with Delidded Intel Core i9-14900KS CPUs

Sebastian Peak — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:38:39 +0000

It's not every day that a press release really surprises jaded, long-term hardware editors like me. But today is the exception. MAINGEAR is doing what I thought a system integrator would never…

Intel Announces the 6.2 GHz Core i9-14900KS Processor

Sebastian Peak — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:02:00 +0000

Intel has made the rumored Core i9-14900KS processor official, pushing out-of-the-box CPU frequencies to an eye-watering 6.2 GHz. Thus, Intel has bested Intel to retain the title as the world’s fastest desktop…

Enermax Launches World’s Smallest ATX 3.1 Power Supply – the REVOLUTION D.F. 12

Sebastian Peak — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:52:05 +0000

The latest power supply series from Enermax is the REVOLUTION D.F. 12, which the company claims is “the world’s smallest ATX 3.1 power supply”. This claim is based on current data from…

CORSAIR K65 PLUS WIRELESS 75% RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

Sebastian Peak — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:44:53 +0000

Corsair’s latest mechanical gaming keyboard is a compact model in the K65 series, but it isn’t a 65% keyboard; this new K65 PLUS is actually 75%. It offers premium features like…

Crucial T705 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD Review

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:29:38 +0000

When we looked at Crucial's initial PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD product, the T700, last July, it was truly in a class by itself. Since then other manufacturers have brought their own…

Sapphire PURE Radeon RX 7900 GRE Review – Enter the Golden Rabbit

Sebastian Peak — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:00:46 +0000

It’s here: the Golden Rabbit Edition. No longer a China exclusive, the GRE is now available worldwide, and it helps to fill in the upper midrange product offering in the Radeon 7000…

CORSAIR A115 CPU Air Cooler Review – A Massive New Contender

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:57:59 +0000

Corsair is a big name in liquid cooling, of course, but they aren’t strangers to the CPU air cooler market, either. Remember the A500? Ok, so that one wasn’t especially popular…

NVIDIA Launches RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:27:51 +0000

The next time you go shopping for a workstation GPU, don’t make the mistake of confusing the RTX 2000 with the RTX A2000. The new GPU is part of the “Ada Generation”,…

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Founders Edition Review

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:00:12 +0000

I will begin this review with a rant. A rant about the original GeForce RTX 4080, and its list price.

At $1199 USD the GeForce RTX 4080 was a product that perfectly illustrated…

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB Review – Featuring the SAPPHIRE PULSE

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:00:44 +0000

AMD's latest graphics card is here, though we have seen this GPU before. At the heart of this new Radeon RX 7600 XT lives Navi 33, and both the original RX 7600…

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Review – Featuring ASUS

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000

The second of NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX SUPER cards is launching, and this one might be more interesting than the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER. In a nutshell, the GeForce RTX 4070…