Sebastian Peak | PC Perspective

CES 2025: Dell Abandons XPS, Introduces New Branding

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:54:44 +0000

Dell has decided to abandon their XPS, Inspiron, and Latitude brands, adopting a new naming convention that is perhaps more than just a little reminiscent of Apple. Introducing Dell's Dell, Dell Pro,…

CES 2025: AMD’s Puzzling Lack of Radeon Coverage

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:54:25 +0000

After plenty of leaks leading up to CES, AMD surprised us by barely mentioning RDNA 4 in their presentation, with the promise of more information later in Q1 2025. Thinking that…

CES 2025: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs and DLSS 4

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:23:37 +0000

Last night NVIDIA unveiled the upcoming GeForce RTX 50 Series lineup, and while the presentation was very light on technical specs we do at least have pricing - along with further emphasis…

MSI DATAMAG 20Gbps Magnetic Portable SSD Review

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:10:45 +0000

USB 3.2 Gen2x2 may have not been as widely adopted as it could have been in the past few years, but there are some very fast portable SSDs out there which take…

Crucial Pro Overclocking Memory Review – Solid Ryzen Option Without RGB

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:19:41 +0000

In a world where PC gaming means RGB everything for most manufacturers, it has become almost novel to see a product launch without any lighting - particularly when it has "overclocking" in…

Taking Our First Look at the Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:40:00 +0000

If we were to poll prospective AM5 platform buyers about their CPU of choice, I think that we would hear "7800X3D" a lot. And for good reason. The only problem is that…

Intel Announces New Core Ultra Desktop Processors

Sebastian Peak — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:03:20 +0000

Intel has made the Core Ultra desktop processors official, and we finally have a new architecture for the DIY enthusiast space from team blue. Many of the topological particulars might be familiar…

AMD’s Current Graphics Plan Calls for Unified Architecture, no Flagship Radeon GPUs

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:34:11 +0000

Some interesting things have come out of an interview that Tom's Hardware had with AMD's Jack Huynh at IFA 2024, including the unification of AMD's two architectures - the client RDNA…

Intel Core Ultra 200V Series Processors are Here – Lunar Lake is Landing

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:21:30 +0000

If there was ever a time when Intel needed an all-new CPU architecture, it's now. Based on the Lunar Lake µarch announced back in May, Intel is calling the new Core…

AMD Officially Supporting 105W TDP with Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:45:11 +0000

When AMD announced the Ryzen 9000 processors this summer, a lot of attention was paid (initially, anyhow) to the company's decision to limit the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X…

Intel Offers 2-Year Extended Warranty on 13th and 14th Gen Processors

Sebastian Peak — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 18:52:02 +0000

The ongoing Intel desktop processor crisis has given owners of 13th and 14th Gen Core desktop processors plenty of uncertainty, with CPUs crashing and a promised microcode update still not here.…

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…