Articles by Zhiye Liu, News Editor, RAM Reviewer & SSD Technician

Zhiye's passion for computer hardware ignited in his pre-teen years, thanks to a learning moment in which a power connection mishap set his Pentium P54CS system on fire and inadvertently short-circuited his entire home. Over the years, Zhiye's curiosity evolved into a relentless pursuit of deeper knowledge of computer hardware. A regular kid tinkering with something beyond his comprehension eventually became a power user for one of the world's top computer hardware brands. His quest to understand the inner workings of computer hardware has led him to become a writer at Tom's Hardware. When Zhiye isn't covering the latest processor, graphics card, or putting SSDs through their paces, you'll often find him overclocking RAM to the rhythm of the latest trance hits.

Articles by: Zhiye Liu

Melted 16-pin power connector on a Radeon RX 9070 XT

AMD zapped with 16-pin power connector melting issue for the first time — Radeon RX 9070 XT paired with sub-par PSU gets singed

By Zhiye Liu Published 22 August 25

Redditor Savings_Opportunity3 reported that the 16-pin power connector on his ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi OC graphics card had melted.

RTX 5090 blower GPU sells for $5,999 at U.S. retailer — dual-slot design converts Blackwell gaming flagship into an AI workhorse

By Zhiye Liu Published 22 August 25

Graphics card manufacturer AFOX has launched the GeForce RTX 5090 32GB Professional, featuring a blower-style design, which is priced at $5,999 at a U.S. retailer.

AMD discontinues B650 chipset to transition to the newer B850 chipset — affordable AM5 motherboards just got a bit pricier

By Zhiye Liu Published 21 August 25

AMD has confirmed that it is transitioning from the B650 chipset to the latest B850 chipset.

Valve's secretive 'Fremont' gaming device surfaces in benchmarks with 2X more processing power than Steam Deck OLED — device powered by six-core Zen 4 CPU and RX 7600 GPU

By Zhiye Liu Published 20 August 25

Valve's Fremont device, featuring an AMD processor based on the Hawk Point 2 silicon, has appeared in the Geekbench database.

Asus' latest OLED gaming monitor can hit 720 Hz at HD resolution — dual refresh modes also allow 540 Hz at QHD

By Zhiye Liu Published 20 August 25

Asus has announced three high-speed OLED gaming monitors at Gamescom 2025.

China gets Intel Xeon 6P Granite Rapids CPUs repackaged with added security and surveillance features — Jintide C6P CPUs with up to 86 P-cores

By Zhiye Liu Published 18 August 25

Montage Technology has launched the new Jintide C6P series of server processors in China.

Photo of a hard drive station during a raid

Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop — authorities read criminals' writes while they spill the beans

By Zhiye Liu Published 16 August 25

Seagate's security team from Singapore and Malaysia and local Malaysian authorities have raided a counterfeiting hard drive warehouse located outside Kuala Lumpur.

AMD's new budget AM4 gaming CPU looks solid in new benchmarks — Zen 3-based Ryzen 5 5500X3D trails Ryzen 5 5600X3D by 6% in PassMark

By Zhiye Liu Published 14 August 25

Twitter user discovers benchmarks for AMD's Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a Zen 3-based processor with 3D V-Cache.

Intel promises to keep updating its game-boosting software despite recent delays — APO will only focus on current and upcoming Intel CPUs

By Zhiye Liu Published 13 August 25

An Intel engineer has reiterated the company's commitment to APO on a Reddit thread, promising new features.

Nvidia RTX 5090D V2 limits AI performance even more with 25% less VRAM and bandwidth — downgraded gaming flagship keeps same $2,299 MSRP in China

By Zhiye Liu Published 12 August 25

Nvidia has officially released the GeForce RTX 5090D V2 gaming graphics card for the Chinese market, priced at $2,300 MSRP.

Eight-core Arrow Lake CPU listed for $150 overseas — Core Ultra 3 205 may not be directly available in retail, though

By Zhiye Liu Published 11 August 25

French retailers have started to list Intel's unannounced Core Ultra 3 205, an eight-core Arrow Lake processor.

AMD quietly launches Radeon RX 7400 8GB budget gaming GPU — RDNA 3 goes another rung lower on the ladder

By Zhiye Liu Published 9 August 25

AMD has launched the Radeon RX 7400 for budget gamers and the Radeon Pro W7400 for workstation users.

M.2 SSD cooler displays your SSD's performance and vitals in real time on built-in display — Thermalright HR-10 2280 Pro Digital features an ARGB display for colorful readouts

By Zhiye Liu Published 8 August 25

Thermalright has launched the company's new HR-10 2280 Pro Digital M.2 SSD cooler in both white and black colors.

Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell laptop GPU beats previous gen by 14% in OpenCL benchmark — professional mobile chip performs like a laptop RTX 5090

By Zhiye Liu Published 6 August 25

Someone has benchmarked Nvidia's RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell Laptop GPU with Geekbench 6.

New Ryzen 9000X3D CPU could deliver EPYC levels of game-boosting L3 cache — rumored chip reportedly sports 16 Zen 5 cores, 192MB L3 cache, 200W TDP

By Zhiye Liu Published 4 August 25

Hardware leaker shares the alleged specifications for new Ryzen 9000X3D processors that may be in the works.

Intel quietly rolls out 'new' Core 5 CPUs that look suspiciously like 12th Gen chips — Core 5 120 and Core 5 120F enter the budget gaming market with i5-12400 specs and 100 MHz boost

By Zhiye Liu Published 31 July 25

Intel has launched the Core 5 120 and Core 5 120F, two processors with silicon that seems to belong to the chipmaker's previous Alder / Raptor Lake lineup.

Adata XPG Lancer CUDIMM RGB DDR5-9200 C42

Adata XPG Lancer CUDIMM RGB DDR5-9200 review: Bleeding-edge memory with bragging rights included

By Zhiye Liu Published 31 July 25

Adata's XPG Lancer CUDIMM RGB DDR5-9200 is very fast on paper, but can it compete with other enthusiast memory kits on the market?

Chinese CPUs are closing the gap on AMD — next-gen Zhaoxin chips feature 96 cores, 12-channel DDR5 memory, and 128 PCIe 5.0 Lanes

By Zhiye Liu Published 30 July 25

Zhaoxin has announced the new KaiXian KX-7000N and Kaisheng KH-50000 processors at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2025.

AMD's Zen 5 gets down to business with new Ryzen Pro 9000 CPUs, according to leak — next-gen enterprise chips to predictably feature up to 12 Zen 5 cores, 65W TDPs

By Zhiye Liu Published 29 July 25

A hardware leaker has shared the alleged specifications for AMD's upcoming Ryzen Pro 9000-series processors, designed for business users.

MSI 240-watt Core Frozr CPU air cooler marks a bold, breezy return to air cooling after a 10-year hiatus

By Zhiye Liu Published 26 July 25

MSI has silently listed the MAG Core Frozr AA13 CPU air cooler, available in both black and white colors.

Lisuan G100 GPU shows promise, at least in OpenCL — homegrown Chinese chip outguns Arc A770 and RTX 4060 in new benchmark, 10% slower than RTX 5060

By Zhiye Liu Published 24 July 25

A new variant of Lisuan Technology's G100 graphics card has emerged in the Geekbench database.

GeForce RTX 3050 refuses to die as Nvidia plans fifth iteration of its 2022 budget GPU — new Ada Lovelace-powered part suggests the name could even outlive Ampere silicon

By Zhiye Liu Published 23 July 25

GPU-Z, a popular utility for graphics card information, indicates support for an unannounced GeForce RTX 3050 A, apparently the fifth version of the original GeForce RTX 3050.

G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 C26

G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 is the current top 96GB memory kit for AMD CPUs — Trident Z5 Neo RGB C26 2x48GB Review

By Zhiye Liu Published 23 July 25

The Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 C26 is a new kit from G.Skill that targets AMD systems; however, can it beat the other enthusiast memory kits on the market?

AMD Strix Halo Mini-ITX motherboard flaunts 128GB LPDDR5X — add a CPU cooler, boot drive, and power supply for a slim gaming or AI rig

By Zhiye Liu Published 22 July 25

Shanghai Sixunited Intelligent Technology Co, Ltd. has revealed the company's upcoming STHT1 powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max 300-series (Strix Halo) processor.

GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU shunt mod increases performance by up to 40% — 175W TGP boosted to 250W to unlock extra performance

By Zhiye Liu Published 21 July 25

GizmoSlipTech applied a shunt mod to a GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU to benchmark the graphics card's performance and thermals.

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