alderlake

Hyper threading is Disabled in Intel Processor Identification Utility. - Hyperthreading is Enabled in BIOS. Screenshot

Hi all 👋 When I built my last rig five years ago, along with 170 chipset and Skylake CPU I bought Corsair Dominator Platinum 2x8 CL15 2666MHz ram sticks (CMD16GX4M2A2666C15) just before "nand crisis" happened and RAMs sticks prices started to go skyrocket. Now I'm planning to build a new rig...

About to do a mid-upgrade on my CPU (certainly not my GPU) as my i5 is starting to show it's limits with only 4 cores and no hyperthreading to speak of. I've decided on all the other bits I'm getting but I'm not sure whether to spend more and jump into Alder Lake or stick with the tried...

I'm considering an i7 12700k for work/gaming and I'm wondering what current Alderlake users make of thermals in real-world use cases. Any recommendations too, such as coolers to use?

So I was primed up for a gaming/work (Premiere, Unreal ext) PC build this winter with my mind set on the Ryzen 7 5800x, which seems to meet my needs with plenty of headroom. But then intel went and released Alderlake and now I'm completely thrown off as it offers great performance and some...

Short version: The motherboard cannot see any NVMe drive i have tested. It does not show in bios except in "intel rapid storage technology" section in BIOS. I just built a new PC with the z690 gaming x ddr4 and Core i7-12700k. And i made a Windows 10 install USB stick using...