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AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Processor Review
Ryzen 5 2600 The second generation of Ryzen CPUs is here at last! Following on from our launch of the 2700X and the 2600X, the lower TDP non-X parts are here now too! We’ve already reviewed the 8-core R7 2700 and were impressed with what it had to offer. Of…
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Intel Coffee Lake Hexacore Lineup Leaked
The new Intel Coffee Lake lineup is just around the corner. Ahead of its launch later this year, more specifications have been leaking weekly. So far, we’ve seen a CPU-Z screenshot for one of the engineering samples, likely the Core i7 8700K. We’ve also seen what appears to be a…
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AMD Ryzen R5 1600X 6-Core AM4 Processor Review
Introduction With our reviews of the Ryzen R7 1700, Ryzen R7 1700X, and the Ryzen R7 1800X already under our belt, today we celebrate the launch of the R5 series of AMD processors! If you haven’t seen it already, we’ve got our review of the R5 1500X here too, as well as…
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QNAP Introduces TS-1685 16-Bay Super NAS With PCIe and M.2
QNAP released what could very well be the most awesome NAS in desktop form factor. Not only is it packed with a powerful Xeon processor, it also comes with up to 128GB DDR4 memory and room for a total of 22 drives. Officially it’s only a 16-bay NAS, but it…
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AMD Ryzen R5 1600X Benchmarks Appear
We have seen a lot of Ryzen news lately, but they’ve been mostly focused on the biggest versions of the upcoming processor generation, the 1700 and the 1800 versions. Now we get a first peek at some Ryzen R5 benchmarks and they look quite promising. The Ryzen R5 1600X is…
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AMD Ryzen Zen 6-Core CPUs Unsurprisingly Exist
Earlier in the week, some reports started surfacing about the lack of 6 core variants of AMD’s Ryzen CPUs being missing at launch. Some sources even when as far to say that hexacore Ryzen wouldn’t even be made at all. Of course, that felt pretty absurd and illogical at the time and…
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Intel Coffee Lake Mainstream 6 Core CPUs Reportedly Set for Early 2018
Last year, a set of interesting Intel slides leaked out. Looking past Kaby Lake and into Coffee Lake, the slides purportedly showed 6 cores CPUs entering the mainstream Intel lineup. Since the beginning of the Core series, 4 cores have been the maximum we ‘ve seen on the mainstream platform. According…
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AMD Keeping Core Count High With Focus on Octa-Core Zen Hardware
AMD’s upcoming CPU architecture, codenamed Zen is long overdue and according to the company’s CEO, Lisa Su will offer a 40% IPC improvement over Excavator. As a result, enthusiasts are excited by this prospect and hope AMD can produce something which rivals Intel and instigates a pricing war. This is…
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AMD Bundles Hitman with GPUs and CPUs
Freebies are something that we all like and AMD has now bundled the new Hitman game with some of their graphics cards and processors as well as systems prebuilt with these components. AMD has partnered with IO Interactive again to bring this deal and they also joined the AMD Gaming Evolved…
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Intel May Increase Mainstream Core Count for Cannonlake
Intel has long limited the mainstream platform to 4 physical cores, with 8 threads due only to Hyper-Threading. This has held true for the longest time, with power users who wanted more cores making the jump to LGA 1366 and 2011. According to an Intel CPU engineer profile, Intel will start…
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Intel Core i7-5820K Features Fewer PCI-Express Lanes Than Predicted
There were reports circulating that the upcoming Intel core i7 Haswell-E HEDT processors would feature more PCI-E express lanes, but it looks like the opposite is true. It was hoped that the chip would feature a slimmer PCI-Express root complex, but the new manual for the Gigabyte Socket LGA 2011-3…
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