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

Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing, but not due to the same bug as desktop chips — chipmaker blames common software and hardware issues

By Zhiye Liu last updated 20 July 24

Intel's official statement highlights the reported instability issues on mobile 13th and 14th Generation processors.

G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6400 C32 2x48GB Review: Soulmate For Dual-DIMM Motherboards

By Zhiye Liu published 8 July 24

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G.Skill launched a DDR5-6400 C32 96GB memory kit for prosumers, but can it hang with the higher-clocked competition?

TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan Eco DDR5-6000 C30 2x16GB Review: Eco-Friendly DDR5 Performance

By Zhiye Liu published 6 July 24

TeamGroup's Vulcan Eco lineup brings innovation to the table, but is it sufficient to rival the modern competition?

Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-6000 C40 2x32GB Review: Competent Performance

By Zhiye Liu published 4 July 24

The Fury Beast series is one of Kingston's more flexible lineups. Can its DDR5-6000 C40 memory kit surpass the current competition?

AMD's new consumer CPUs reportedly suffer a slight delay — Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point launch seemingly pushed to July 28

By Zhiye Liu published 28 June 24

Two reputable hardware leakers claim that AMD has allegedly pushed the Ryzen AI 300 (Strix Point) launch to July 28, a day behind the Ryzen 9000 debut.

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X Black OC

Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super using AD102 GPU appears — a fresh variant surfaces with a harvested RTX 4090 die

By Zhiye Liu published 25 June 24

Exact same specifications but with a different die.

Radeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot AI TOP 48G & Radeon Pro W7800 AI TOP 32G

Gigabyte launches AI TOP GPUs — AMD reference-like designs in fancy boxes

By Zhiye Liu published 21 June 24

Gigabyte has announced the Radeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot AI TOP 48G and the Radeon Pro W7800 AI TOP 32G.

New Samsung SSDs are allegedly right around the corner — 990 Evo Plus and 9100 Pro trademarks have surfaced

By Zhiye Liu published 19 June 24

Samsung trademarks the 990 Evo Plus and 9100 Pro with the Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS).

Gigabyte AI TOP 100E SSD features incredible 219,000 TBW endurance rating — 183X more than the venerable Samsung 990 Pro

By Zhiye Liu published 18 June 24

Nearly 17 hours per day of continuous 2 TB/s writes for five years.

Intel denies reports that it identified a root cause for Core i9 crashing issues — investigation continues

By Zhiye Liu, Paul Alcorn published 15 June 24

Contrary to media reports, Intel hasn't discovered the cause of the instability affecting 13th and 14th Generation Core i9 processors.

EVGA's classified AMD motherboard has been declassified — EVGA X670E Classified prototype motherboard fetches over $1,300

By Zhiye Liu published 14 June 24

Hardware enthusiast shows off the EVGA X670E Classified motherboard, a prototype that recently surfaced in the Chinese second-hand market.

ASRock doubles memory on AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT — budget gaming GPU has 8GB GDDR6 for $169

By Zhiye Liu published 12 June 24

ASRock has launched the Radeon RX 6500 XT Phantom Gaming 8GB OC, a custom version of the GPU with twice as much memory as the original.

GeForce RTX 50 series laptop GPUs reportedly leaked — mobile Blackwell with GDDR7 en route for 2025

By Zhiye Liu published 8 June 24

A new leak shows the alleged configurations for Nvidia's upcoming GeForce RTX 50-series (Blackwell) graphics cards for mobile devices.

Noctua creates a monstrous cooler for Nvidia's GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip

By Zhiye Liu published 6 June 24

Noctua reveals air CPU coolers for Nvidia H200 Grace Hopper Superchip and Ampere's Altra processors.

Maxsun's new mini-ITX motherboard puts the GPU slot on its backside

By Zhiye Liu published 5 June 24

Maxsun reveals the MS-Challenger B760BKB D5 motherboard, which features a back-to-back design.

Seasonic's latest big and silent 1,600W PSU gets a quieter 120mm Noctua fan upgrade

By Zhiye Liu published 4 June 24

Seasonic and Noctua show off the Prime TX-1600 Noctua Edition power supply, which will arrive in Q4 2024.

AMD debuts Radeon Pro GPU for AI workloads — Radeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot brings 6,144 shaders and 48GB ECC GDDR6 for $3,499

By Zhiye Liu published 3 June 24

AMD has announced the Radeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot, which launches on June 19 for $3,499.

Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 CPU trails Core i9-14900K in leaked benchmark — Granite Ridge 5.8 GHz CPU shows Core i9-13900K-like single-threaded performance in CPU-Z

By Zhiye Liu published 28 May 24

One user from the Baidu Tieba community has shared a screenshot and the single-threaded performance score for an alleged AMD Ryzen 9000 (Granite Ridge) CPU with Zen 5 execution cores.

Gigabyte's new motherboard supports massive 128-pound GPUs — Reinforced slots still can't fix GPU PCB cracking

By Zhiye Liu published 27 May 24

Chinese media Benchlife previews Gigabyte's upcoming B650E Aorus Pro X USB4 motherboard for next-generation AMD Ryzen processors.

Crucial Pro Overclocking DDR5-6000 C36 2x16GB Review: A Return to Overclocking

By Zhiye Liu published 21 May 24

Crucial has started making enthusiast memory kits again. However, can the Crucial Pro Overclocking memory kits compete with the current competition?

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?

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