Hardware Asylum CES 2025 Coverage
I would like to thank Yeyian Gaming for helping sponsor Hardware Asylum during CES 2025. The Consumer Electronics Show starts Jan 9th and runs through Jan 12th.
Yeyian Gaming offers an wide range of solutions for the PC gamer including pre-built PCs to fully customized gaming computers with an online configurator. Their builds feature the latest in computer hardware including Intel Ultra, AMD Ryzen 9 and the latest in Nvidia RTX.
Be sure to check them out at https://us.yeyiangaming.com and the Venetian Tower if you'll be attending CES 2025.
This premium EVGA case with an overclocking button on sale now @ PC Gamer (Kinda)
Darren likes to surf PC Gamer from time to time and if you ever listen to our Podcast you'll quickly realize that some of our topics are a direct response to "something" they decided to post.
A couple days ago PC Gamer posted an article about the DG-77 from EVGA. This is a case I reviewed when it was first released and found it to be a good example of a basic chassis with several dress up parts. It comes with a vertical GPU mount, tempered glass side panels and is available in two colors (last I checked)
The case also features a "K Boost" button which PC Gamer calls an "Overclocking Button" I have to chuckle since that is an obvious attempt at click-bait since the boost button is simply a software feature to kick your fans into high gear. On the DG-8 it could also control your GPU enabling the performance feature, provided you had the EVGA Precision installed.
It also features a K-Boost button for one-touch overclocking. Enabling K-Boost does two things: it locks an NVIDIA GPU at its boost frequency, and ramps the CPU to its peak clock speed as set in the BIOS.
That last feature isn't true, at least in my experience. Also in my experience I found the K Boost option to be nothing more than a gimmick prompting users to buy the next level up in the EVGA DG-7x lineup.
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