Zhiye Liu

Zhiye’s love for PC hardware began when he accidentally set his Pentium P54CS PC on fire, short-circuiting his entire home. From that day on, he has constantly pursued greater hardware knowledge, which ultimately led him from being a power user to a writer at Tom’s Hardware. When Zhiye’s not covering the latest news on CPUs or GPUs, you can find him overclocking RAM to the latest trance hits.

Articles by: Zhiye Liu

PCIe 5.0 SSDs May Get Wider and Require Wider M.2 Slots

By Zhiye Liu published 26 May 22

New speculation suggests that upcoming M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSDs may adopt the 25110 form factor.

MSI Showcases AM5 Socket, X670 Platform's Dual Chipsets

By Zhiye Liu published 25 May 22

MSI reveals new information on AMD's AM5 platform in the latest installment of the MSI Insider show.

WD Red SMR Lawsuit Pays Out Pennies in Settlement Damages

By Zhiye Liu published 24 May 22

Class members of the WD Red NAS class action lawsuit have started receiving compensation from Western Digital.

Best RAM for Gaming: DDR4, DDR5 Kits for 2022

By Zhiye Liu published 23 May 22

Here are the best RAM kits we’ve tested: computer memory that’s ideal for gaming, video editing, and graphics-heavy applications.

Video Shows Installation of AMD's Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 AM5 CPU: Easy as 1-2-3

By Zhiye Liu published 23 May 22

MSI has shared a video tutorial on installing AMD's Ryzen 7000 processor on a 600-series motherboard.

AMD Reveals Mendocino Zen 2 APUs With RDNA 2 Graphics

By Zhiye Liu published 23 May 22

AMD has announced its 6nm Mendocino APUs with Zen 2 cores and RDNA 2 graphics to redefine the everyday laptop.

GeForce GTX 1630 Specs Leaked: 512 CUDA Cores, 4GB GDDR6

By Zhiye Liu published 19 May 22

VideoCardz shares the alleged specifications for Nvidia's rumored GeForce GTX 1630 gaming graphics card.

AMD Zen 4 CPU Emerges With 5.2 GHz Boost, RDNA 2 iGPU

By Zhiye Liu published 13 May 22

An anonymous user has tested one of AMD's octa-core Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) CPUs with RDNA 2 graphics.

AMD's New Radeon Preview Driver Brings Double-Digit Performance Gains

By Zhiye Liu published 11 May 22

AMD has released the AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 with new features and performance improvements.

GeForce RTX 4090 May Have 24GB of 21 Gbps GDDR6X VRAM

By Zhiye Liu published 10 May 22

Hardware leaker shares the potential memory configurations for Nvidia's next-generation GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards.

WD Pricing Error Lists Hard Drives Starting at $1

By Zhiye Liu published 8 May 22

Western Digital has slashed the prices for its Gold, Red Pro, Red Plus, Purple, Purple Pro, and Blue hard drives on its online store. But it's probably a pricing error.

G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6400 C32 Review: Top Performance At a Top-Dollar Price

By Zhiye Liu published 8 May 22

The Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6400 is the latest memory kit from G.Skill's camp. So just how fast is it?

Nvidia's LHR Limiter Has Fallen, But Gamers Shouldn't Worry

By Zhiye Liu published 7 May 22

NiceHash has (mostly) bypassed Nvidia's Lite Hash Rate (LHR) anti-mining limiter with its newest QuickMiner software.

Mushkin Redline ECC Black DDR4-3600 C16 Review: Overclocked ECC Performer

By Zhiye Liu published 7 May 22

Do we need overclocked ECC memory? Mushkin's Redline memory has the answer.

Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, RX 6650 XT MSRPs Leaked

By Zhiye Liu published 5 May 22

VideoCardz has shared the alleged pricing for AMD's looming Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT and RX 6650 XT graphics cards.

AMD Preps Smart Access Storage To Accelerate SSD Performance

By Zhiye Liu published 5 May 22

A new report claims that AMD is preparing Smart Access Storage (SAS) to accelerate storage performance on its Ryzen processors.

Ace DDR5-6400 & Legend 850 Limited Edition

Adata Releases Flowery RAM, SSDs for 21st Birthday

By Zhiye Liu published 4 May 22

Adata launches limited-edition products with artwork by German designer Mister Fred to celebrate company's 21st anniversary.

AMD Confirms Zen 4 Dragon Range, Phoenix APUs for 2023

By Zhiye Liu published 4 May 22

AMD has released a new roadmap that details the chipmaker's plan to release multiple Zen 4-based CPUs in the upcoming months.

Steam Deck Framerate Limiter Egregiously Raises Input Latency

By Zhiye Liu published 2 May 22

Redditor shares test results concerning the framerate limiter function in the Steam Deck.

Asus Preps Understated $75 Micro-ATX Case With Lots of Mesh

By Zhiye Liu published 28 April 22

Asus is reportedly preparing to launch the AP201, a micro-ATX case with support for radiators up to 360mm.

GPU-Powered RAID Blasts to 110 GBps, 19 Million IOPS

By Zhiye Liu published 27 April 22

GRAID Technology has launched the SupremeRAID SR-1010, touted as the " world's fastest NVMe and NVMeoF RAID card for PCIe Gen 4."

V-Color Manta XPrism DDR5-6200 C36 Review: Ordinary Swimmer

By Zhiye Liu published 27 April 22

V-Color introduces the brand's first DDR5 memory kits. Can the company outshine its rivals?

AMD Reportedly Disables Overclocking on the Radeon RX 6400

By Zhiye Liu published 26 April 22

A TechPowerUp review shows that AMD has seemingly disabled overclocking support on the latest Radeon RX 6400 graphics card.

Early Radeon RX 6400 Review Reveals GTX 1650-Level Performance

By Zhiye Liu published 20 April 22

Chinese publication Expreview shares the first review of AMD's latest Radeon RX 6400 gaming graphics card.

Intel Alder Lake-HX Leak: 16 Cores, 5 GHz Boost Clock

By Zhiye Liu published 19 April 22

Chinese publication ITHome has uncovered the alleged specifications for Intel's looming 12th Generation Alder Lake-HX processors.

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