The world of extreme subzero overclocking is a small one, but for those involved it can be fiercely competitive. The brand options and choices for extreme cooling solutions are very few and, in many cases, are not even available to the public. However, today we are evaluating a new retail product from Bitspower, which has been expressly designed to be used with extreme cooling solutions, such as liquid nitrogen or dry ice. Read More
Today we’re looking at the GIGABYTE X570 AORUS PRO WiFi with its 6-phase, doubled to 12, 40 A power stages. Is it enough? We’ll run it through our usual battery of testing and see how it holds up to the biggest mainstream CPU currently available. Read More
We covered the launch of AMD’s new 7 nm CPUs just a couple of weeks back when we reviewed the 3900X and the 3700X. Today we’re dropping down in core count and price and taking a hard look at the Ryzen 5 3600X. Read More
The internet has been ripe with rumors and chatter about AMD’s new 7 nm CPUs and today we have the Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core and the Ryzen 7 3700X 8-core/16-thread CPUs for testing to see just what these things can or can not do. Read More
Today at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, President and CEO of AMD, Dr. Lisa Su made some announcements that we in the enthusiast market have been waiting impatiently for. Aside from mobile Ryzen with Vega graphics and Epyc server solutions which have already been covered AMD revealed pricing and relative performance numbers for their new, first in the industry, 7nm gaming GPU the Radeon VII. Read More
With the launch of the second generation Ryzen CPUs, AMD also released an updated chipset. ASUS has supplied us with the ROG Crosshair VII Hero WiFi and we’ll be putting it through our usual set of testing and benchmarks to see how it measures up to the competition. Read More
With the official release of the B450 chipset still a couple weeks away, we won’t have any performance numbers for you today but GIGABYTE has sent out information on their B450 motherboard line-up. It looks like we’ll see three ATX and three SFF (small form factor) one of which is mini-ITX. Read More
Today I have the follow-up review of the Ryzen 7 2700 and the Ryzen 5 2600 CPUs. These are AMD’s lower wattage versions of the new Pinnacle Ridge eight and six-core CPUs. As mentioned in the Ryzen 7 2700X review, AMD has successfully raised the clock speeds, lower latency, and improved memory speeds/compatibility with its updated Zen+ architecture. I’m sure this is going to show in the Ryzen 7 2700 and Ryzen 5 2600 as well since all four CPUs are based on the same Global Foundries’ 12LP process. Read More
AMD is back again with the launch of their second generation of the ZEN core, the Ryzen 7 2700X and the Ryzen 5 2600X, AMD refers to this core as ZEN+. Read More
I have the AMD Ryzen+ review kit here and will give a quick rundown of its contents and some of the specifications and features of the upcoming Ryzen+ and the all-new X470 motherboard which has been included in the kit. Read More
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