Introduction 2017 has been a busy year for AMD and we’ve already had the release and reviews of many of their new CPUs. Of course, the Ryzen R7 1700, Ryzen R7 1700X, ...
May 17, 2017 at 9:08 am by Peter Donnell
Introduction Following on from our coverage of the Ryzen R7 series of 8-core, 16-thread processors, the Ryzen R7 1700, Ryzen R7 1700X, and the Ryzen R7 1800X, we kick things ...
April 11, 2017 at 2:00 pm by Peter Donnell
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 ...
April 11, 2017 at 2:00 pm by Peter Donnell
Introduction Ryzen has gotten off to a great start, and we’ve had a lot of fun testing the Ryzen R7 1800X, as well as the Ryzen R7 1700. Not only have we been putting ...
March 24, 2017 at 8:49 am by Peter Donnell
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 ...
March 11, 2017 at 8:56 am by Peter Donnell
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 ...
March 2, 2017 at 2:00 pm by Peter Donnell
Introduction Intel has been utilising poor quality thermal interface material since the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture which increases the thermal values and restricts the ...
December 30, 2016 at 3:25 pm by John Williamson
Introduction Whenever Intel unveils a new generation of processors, enthusiasts tend to focus on the unlocked multiplier models because they’re widely used in high-end ...
December 26, 2016 at 2:00 pm by John Williamson
Introduction Intel’s Core i5 processors have been widely used by PC gamers because engines didn’t really take advantage of the additional threads. Therefore, it ...
December 19, 2016 at 10:16 pm by John Williamson
Introduction The Intel Core i7-6700K has become a firm favourite among PC enthusiasts despite the performance improvements being fairly slim compared to the previous ...
December 19, 2016 at 1:06 pm by John Williamson
Introduction Even though AMD is making the final preparations for their hotly-anticipated Zen architecture, there’s still many circumstances which allow existing ...
October 25, 2016 at 9:00 am by John Williamson
Introduction Intel has been dominating the HEDT market for a considerable amount of time as prosumers’ hefty multi-threaded workloads require additional cores which the ...
August 1, 2016 at 2:14 pm by John Williamson
Introduction Even though the overwhelming majority of media attention revolves around AMD’s upcoming Zen architecture and AM4 socket, it’s important to not ...
July 8, 2016 at 7:00 am by John Williamson
Introduction The overwhelming majority of hardware enthusiasts invest in third-party CPU coolers with superb thermal dissipation and a wonderful noise to performance ratio. ...
May 13, 2016 at 9:20 am by John Williamson
Introduction Skylake is finally here, after months of speculation that all leads up to a single date in the calendar. Based on the first truly successful 14nm process after ...
August 5, 2015 at 1:00 pm by Rikki Wright
