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DeepCool Gamer Storm Captain EX 120 Review (AM4)

March 24, 2018

DeepCool's Gamer Storm Captain EX 120 is a compact All-In-One (AIO) liquid cooler with a unique appearance that really catches the eye. I am going to take a look at the cooler and see how it performs compared t... Read More...

i3 8350K vs R5 1600: price to performance showdown

Darren

January 12, 2018

Articles, Editorials

Early last year, AMD introduced its brand new "Zen" micro-architecture for desktops, with the Ryzen brand. Offering much higher performance than the previous 'Construction' cores ending with Excavator, Ryzen wa... Read More...

RX 560 2GB vs GTX 1050 2GB: Showdown of the budget cards

Darren

January 6, 2018

Articles, Editorials

While it's definitely nice to have the pixel pushing power of a GTX 1080 Ti, or RX Vega 64, one can't overlook just how much power you can get for a considerably smaller investment. Graphics cards have come a l... Read More...

Looking back: GeForce GTX 480 vs GTX 1070 Ti (feat. RX 560)

Darren

December 18, 2017

Articles, Editorials

A little over seven years ago in March 2010, after delays, NVIDIA launched their first 40nm architecture built for DX11 from the ground up, named after Italian-American Physicist, Enrico Fermi. The 'Fermi' Arch... Read More...

[UPDATED] Ryzen 3 vs ‘Coffee Lake’ i3 per clock performance comparison

Darren

December 1, 2017

Articles

As we come to the end of 2017, we can reflect back to see that AMD has made a very successful comeback to the high-performance CPU market with their "Ryzen" brand of CPUs. They launched providing HEDT-like perf... Read More...

AMD announces Ryzen Threadripper price, Ryzen 3

CreativeMaster

July 14, 2017

News

AMD has announced the pricing and availability for the CPUs of their upcoming High End Desktop (HEDT) platform, X399. in a product update video. They are priced highly competitively against Intel's Skylake-X of... Read More...

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XFX RX 570 RS Review, a not so clever rebranding

Jeff Williams

April 30, 2017

GPU

AMD has seen fit to release a newer revision of their Polaris architecture with an iterative naming scheme. The XFX RX 570 RS is among those, with a slightly higher clockspeed compared to the previous RX 470 an... Read More...

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AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Review, the new king of mid-range?

Jeff Williams

April 25, 2017

CPU

AMD has quite a bit of momentum from the launch of the original Ryzen CPUs. The new Zen core is a very hot topic among nearly everyone interested in tech. It's proven to be a fascinating new addition to their p... Read More...

AMD Ryzen 1800X Review Part 2: Just how good is it?

Jeff Williams

April 1, 2017

Articles

The initial release of AMD's newest CPU wasn't exactly the most smooth launch in their history. Problems with initial BIOS files potentially reduced the performance ceiling and there were some concerns, borderi... Read More...

AMD reveals Ryzen 5 mainstream CPU details

Simon den Bekker

March 16, 2017

Articles, CPUs

It's not too long ago since AMD revealed the full details on Ryzen 7. And now that Ryzen 7 came out and was received very well by the audience, we finally get more details on their midrange Ryzen 5 seri... Read More...

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