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Enlarge (credit: TechBargains) Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our friends at TechBargains, we have another round of deals to share. Today’s list is headlined by a deal on AMD’s latest Ryzen 7 2700 processor, which is down to $ 220 as part of a one-day sale at Amazon. That’s its lowest price to date on Amazon, […]
Enlarge / Ryzen die shot. (credit: AMD) AMD has used CES to lay out its plans for 2018. Over the first half of the year, the company is going to release the final missing members of the Ryzen product line-up. Starting in April and continuing into the second half of the year, Ryzen will start […]
AMD’s new Ryzen chips based on the company’s Zen CPU architecture are winning some accolades for providing good performance at competitive pricing. The high-end Ryzen 7 series were the first to ship, and the midrange Ryzen 5 series chips have also hit the market. Anyone looking to optimize a Ryzen-based system is likely keeping up […]
The dust has settled, the reviews are out, the BIOSes are patched (somewhat), and AMD’s new Ryzen CPU is a serious contender to be the heart of your next PC. To that end, I’ve put together some advice on how to build a PC with this new AMD architecture, which I hope can get you […]
Enlarge / What’s all this gaming blather about Ryzen? Let us explain. (credit: Mark Walton) While AMD’s new Ryzen processors offer impressive performance to workloads such as software compilation, media encoding, 3D rendering, and indeed, anything that can take advantage of the 8 cores and 16 simultaneous threads, certain aspects of its gaming performance were […]
Enlarge / A Kaby Lake desktop CPU, not that you can tell the difference in a press shot. (credit: Intel) A recently published Knowledge Base article suggests that Microsoft is going to block Windows Updates for owners of the latest Intel and AMD processors if they try to run Windows 7 or 8.1. Last year, […]
Advanced Micro Devices said it is launching four Ryzen 5 mainstream desktop processors worldwide on April 11. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company hopes the chips will help it steal some market share back from Intel, the world’s largest chip maker. Earlier this month, AMD launched its Ryzen 7 high-end desktop processors. The Ryzen family is based […]
The first chips with AMD’s new Zen architecture were the high-end, enthusiast-oriented Ryzen 7 parts. It’s now the mainstream’s turn, with AMD announcing Ryzen 5. There are four Ryzen 5 parts launching on April 11. At the top end is the R5 1600X: 6 cores, 12 threads, with a base of 3.6GHz and a turbo […]
Some sources claim that AMD’s Ryzen CPUs could perform better in Windows 10 except for the way the operating system incorrectly handles Ryzen’s simultaneous multi-threading (SMT). We’re told that instead of leaving it to the smaller tasks, it lumps them right in with the main cores, which can result in a real dip in performance. However, not […]
AMD is back — again. This time it’s Ryzen, a new processor line that’s a fresh start for not just the Red Team’s architecture, but its perception, as well. These powerful chips start at eight cores and sixteen more conventional threads, aiming to compete in an area where Intel charged a premium. That means the […]
