The Fat Nerd ep. 178: Rumors about RTX Ti variants, tall CPU changes, and a push for ATX12VO

In this episode of The Fat Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray dive into rumors galore: the aptitude commence of Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti graphics playing cards, changes to the form of socket utilized by future Ryzen processors, a contemporary stock cooler size for Intel’s upcoming Alder Lake CPUs, and a break of day of the ATX12VO period.

We kick off with a transient discussion about what the liberate of an RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti could well imply for avid gamers (hi there, probability-at-a-GPU-at-ideal), plus recommendations on pricing and timing. Nonetheless since we coated these imaginable RTX playing cards in a outdated episode, we wing on over to the next bit of hot gossip handsome hasty: that AMD’s upcoming AM5 socket will shift some distance off from a pin grid array (PGA) to a land grid array (LGA), as published by ExecutableFix on Twitter.

Some nice benefits of inviting the pins from the CPU to the motherboard are evident, unnecessary to claim, however that would not give up a few of us from noting that although the threat of zigzag pins goes down, or not it’s tranquil easier to repair them when or not it’s on the processor in preference to the motherboard. The team is extra unified by formula of recommendations on the probable contemporary dimensions for Intel’s stock coolers starting with LGA 1700, as reported by Igor’s Lab—the trade could just not truly inconvenience anybody outside of of us who preserve to reuse passe stock coolers.

Wrapping up the demonstrate is our dive into the rumor that Intel could just accumulate ATX12VO commonplace for upcoming Alder Lake motherboards. Gordon lays out the particulars of what moves from a energy offer to the mobo, as successfully because the destiny of the 3.3V and 5V rails. The destiny of your existing energy offer gets coated, too.

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