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Ryzen 5 & 7 First Generation Retested on X470 Review
Ryzen First Generation It has been just over a year since the Ryzen CPU range hit the market, and we loved it when it first came out. However, since the launch, there have been a plethora of updates released for Windows 10, CPU microcode updates, BIOS updates, and so much…
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AMD Ryzen 7 1800X – The New High-Performance King!
AMD launched their flagship Ryzen 7 1800X processor just a few months ago. Since then, it has gone on to impress with its high-end multi-threaded performance. Just like the R7 1700, or any other Ryzen chip, the new CPU’s are some of the most disruptive product launches in recent years.…
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ASUS RoG Crosshair VI Hero X370 Motherboard Review
Introduction Ryzen is here at last, and with that comes dozens of motherboards from the many AMD partners. Today, we’ll be taking a look at the new ASUS RoG Crosshair VI Hero, an X370 chipset board for the latest Ryzen AM4 socket chips from AMD. The new board brings all…
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ASRock Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming K4 AM4 Motherboard Review
Introduction Ryzen is here and with it a lot of really cool motherboards! We’ve already taken a look at some of the X370 offerings, but today we kick things off with a look at our first B350 chipset motherboard, with the Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming K4. Not only does this motherboard…
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- Graphics Cards
Ryzen Vs Intel GTX 1080 Ti Showdown Revisited
Ryzen has been with us for a few weeks now, and there has been quite the rollercoaster of feedback from around the world about its performance. We’ve tested the CPUs, and they’re pretty fantastic and offer some excellent performance, despite a few issues with memory speeds and latency. While we…
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AMD: Ryzen Temperature Reporting is Wrong
Since the release of AMD’s Ryzen processors, some users have reported recording abnormally high temperatures from the 1700X and 1800X versions of the chip. Now, AMD has spoken about the issue, revealing that it set a 20oC temperature offset on the temperature reporting sensor of the two CPUs, in order…
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AMD Ryzen R7 1700 AM4 8-Core Processor Review
Introduction Ryzen has been on the market for a little over a week now, and it’s already off to an impressive start. While there have been some bugs with memory performance, some of which that are still to be fixed at the time of writing, we’ve seen that these issues…
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Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti CPU Showdown
Introduction There’s been a lot of chatter online this last few weeks about Ryzen. AMD themselves wanted people to know just how well the chip could compete with Intel, either at stock clocks or by overclocking the AMD chip to bring it up to and over the performance of the Intel…
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Ryzen 7 1800X Overclocked to 5.8GHz
Barely a week after an overclocker managed to push an AMD Ryzen 7 1800X up to a record-breaking 5.3GHz, someone has smashed the feat, overclocking the same processor to a whopping 5.8GHz. Lauded German overclocker Der8auer achieved the feat by removing the integrated heat spreader (IHS) from the top of…
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Overclocker ‘der8auer’ Sets Impressive Ryzen 7 1800X Record
The well known German overclocker der8auer recently took the i7-7700K processor to new levels as he overclocked it to impressive speeds with all cores enabled. Now he’s back and he has done the same with the brand new AMD Ryzen 7 1800X chip. Okay, the Ryzen result doesn’t go nearly…
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AMD Ryzen 7 1800X AM4 8-Core Processor Review
Introduction The day of Ryzen has finally come and while I’m sure many of you have been eagerly awaiting this, we’ve been even more excited to be some of the first people in the world to get our hands-on the new hardware and see what it can really do. There…
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AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked in CPU Mark
The AMD Ryzen 7 1800X processor has now been added to Passmark’s CPU Mark database, and WCCFTech’s Khalid Moammer have used it to test the CPU’s performance against its biggest Intel rivals, plus one of AMD’s previous-generation high-end processors. In tests against the Intel Core i7 6900K, Core i7 5960X,…
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Lexar Professional 1800x 64GB microSDXC Memory Card Review
Introduction The days where memory cards were small in capacity and slow as a turtle has long gone by, but the card that I will be taking for a spin in my test systems today is something a little bit special. I’m taking a closer look at the Lexar Professional…
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Lexar Releases A Bunch of New Flash Products
Lexar released a bunch of new flash-based products and we naturally also want to update you on these. While HDDs are the go-to medium for NAS and SSDs for the PC systems, we shouldn’t forget about our portable storage and mobile devices. The drive pictured above is the first of…
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