Articles by Zhiye Liu, News Editor and Memory Reviewer

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

Three-year-old CPU beats Intel's fastest current chip in RAM benchmark — 7 GHz Core i9-11900K tops 8.3 GHz Core i9-14900KS in PYPrime 32B

By Zhiye Liu published 17 May 24

Allen 'Splave' Golibersuch sets a new PyPrime 32B world record with a Core i9-11900K overclocked to 7 GHz and DDR4-3914 memory.

Liquid nitrogen-cooled M4 iPad Pro flaunts remarkable single-core performance gains — M4 outperforms M3 Max and M2 Ultra

By Zhiye Liu published 16 May 24

Hardware enthusiast team Geekerwan cools Apple's latest M4 iPad Pro with liquid nitrogen.

AMD launches Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F — budget Zen 4 CPUs without the RDNA 3 integrated graphics

By Zhiye Liu published 14 May 24

AMD has introduced the Ryzen 8000 F-series processors for the AM5 platform. The new Ryzen chips lack integrated graphics, so a discrete graphics card is required.

Intel's biggest failure pops up on a Pokemon-emblazoned motherboard — 10nm Cannon Lake rides in style on a custom Meowth board

By Zhiye Liu published 12 May 24

Hardware enthusiast YuuKi_AnS shows off a peculiar Cannon Lake motherboard with a rare Core m3-8114Y sample with three dies.

Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5-6400 C32 2x48GB Review: Heavy Duty Memory Kit

By Zhiye Liu published 12 May 24

Kingston has many products in its arsenal, but is the Fury Renegade DDR5-6400 one of the better memory kits?

Intel's next-gen desktop CPUs have reportedly leaked — Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200 series have same core counts as Raptor Lake Refresh, but fewer threads

By Zhiye Liu published 9 May 24

Chinese news outlet Benchlife shares the alleged specifications for Intel's forthcoming Core Ultra 200 series (Arrow Lake) processors.

Pocket-size PC doesn't need a power plug — Minisforum S100 rocks Alder Lake-N CPU, 2.5GbE networking, and PoE support

By Zhiye Liu published 8 May 24

Minisforum has launched the ultra-thin S100 mini-PC, which the brand showed off at CES this year.

Corsair Vengeance DDR5-5200 C38 4x48GB Review: Every Professional's Dream Memory Kit

By Zhiye Liu published 4 May 24

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The Vengeance DDR5-5200 C38 is a massive memory kit; however, can its capacity compensate for the slow speeds?

User claims RTX 4090 16-pin power connector melted on both GPU and PSU side, despite running at 75% power

By Zhiye Liu published 1 May 24

A user on the Korean Quasar Zone forums recounts how the 16-pin power connectors on his RTX 4090 and FSP Hydro power supply melted.

Nvidia's flagship gaming GPU can crack complex passwords in under an hour

By Zhiye Liu published 1 May 24

Cybersecurity firm Hive Systems has released its 2024 iteration of the Hive Systems Password Table, which details how long it takes different graphics cards to crack a password.

Nvidia has another RTX 4070 variant brewing — this one uses a down-binned AD103 GPU from the RTX 4080 Super

By Zhiye Liu published 29 April 24

AD103 silicon with over 40% of the SMs disabled.

Buyer beware: Fake Samsung 1080 Pro 4TB SSD promising unbelievable 15.8 GB/s speeds for $43 is too good to be true

By Zhiye Liu published 22 April 24

Korean news outlet Quasar Zone bought and tested an obscure Samsung-looking 1080 Pro SSD from China.

Rare GeForce GTX 2070 engineering sample has surfaced — the unreleased GPU has 128 fewer CUDA cores than the RTX 2070

By Zhiye Liu published 20 April 24

X user Jiacheng Liu got his hands on an early GeForce GTX 2070 engineering sample and benchmarked it.

'Enhanced' Nvidia A100 GPUs appear in China's second-hand market — new cards surpass sanctioned counterparts with 7,936 CUDA cores and 96GB HBM2 memory

By Zhiye Liu published 16 April 24

These A100 cards come with 15% more CUDA cores and 20% more HBM2 than the 'normal' A100 PCIe.

Chinese gamers can't RMA their RTX 4090s due to US sanctions — users are being very careful with how they treat their top-tier GPUs

By Zhiye Liu published 12 April 24

Chinese publication HKEPC details how different brands carry out the RMA process for GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards in China

Mutant ASUS Frankenboard surfaces with SO-DIMM memory slots — rare Maximus XIII Hero includes Kingston Fury logo

By Zhiye Liu published 9 April 24

A hardware enthusiast shared photographs of an ROG Maximus XIII Hero that comes with four SO-DIMM slots. The rare Frankenboard may be an engineering design for testing and validation of SO-DIMMs.

Seagate BarraCuda 530 SSD breaks cover with 7,400 MB/s speeds — Still PCIe 4.0, but looks like a significant upgrade over the previous 520

By Zhiye Liu published 8 April 24

Seagate has listed the latest BarraCuda 530 PCIe 4.0 SSD on the company's website.

AMD's latest China-exclusive CPUs benchmarked — Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F aren't much slower than costlier models

By Zhiye Liu published 5 April 24

Chinese motherboard vendor JGINYUE evaluates the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F processors and compares them to the Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 7500F.

Gigabyte puts a golden CPU socket on upcoming Intel motherboard — Z790 Aorus Xtreme X Ice sports misty design and colossal M.2 heatsink

By Zhiye Liu published 4 April 24

Facebook user shares renders of Gigabyte's upcoming Z790 Aorus Xtreme X Ice motherboard.

MSI revives its Duke series GPUs — RTX 4060 arrives to bring back the budget-oriented lineup

By Zhiye Liu published 3 April 24

MSI has launched the GeForce RTX 4060 8G Gaming Duke 3X in the Chinese market.

Seven-year-old AMD gaming GPU continues to stick around — low-profile RX 550 arrives for SFF PCs

By Zhiye Liu published 30 March 24

ASRock launches the Radeon RX 550 Low Profile 4GB graphics card for compact and small-form-factor systems.

EVGA replaces customer's destroyed hard drives after power supply RMA blunder

By Zhiye Liu published 29 March 24

EVGA will replace a user's two destroyed hard drives due to an RMA power supply process error.

Meteor Lake-PS CPUs will be the first chips to use Intel's LGA1851 socket

By Zhiye Liu published 25 March 24

iBase MI1002 motherboard will sport Intel's LGA1851 socket, with support for the Core Ultra Meteor Lake-PS processors.

This NAS motherboard has more 2.5G Ethernet ports than USB ports — Topton N9 comes with eight 2.5G Ethernet ports

By Zhiye Liu published 23 March 24

AliExpress sells the Topton N9, a motherboard that leverages Intel's Kaby Lake G processors and offers NAS users up to eight high-speed 2.5G Ethernet ports.

China-made RISC-V PCIe 5.0 SSD controller promises competitive performance — up to 14.2 GB/s without a fan

By Zhiye Liu published 22 March 24

Yingren (aka InnoGrit) has announced the YRS820, a high-end PCIe 5.0 controller for consumer SSDs based on the RISC-V architecture.

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