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AMD Ryzen 7 Launch Event AMA Summary – Featuring Lisa Su!

March 2, 2017

Ryzen AMA Summary *Takes Deep Breath* It's here. The long awaited return of AMD to high end desktop computing is finally here. As of the time of writing, reviews (including our own) are pouring in, and the ge... Read More...

Raven Ridge: A Potential Game Changer For Graphics

CreativeMaster

February 24, 2017

Editorials

A Tale of Fusion Integrated Graphics Processing Units, found inside “Accelerated Processing Units” (APU’s) as AMD’s marketing team calls them, are quite the interesting little pieces of engineering. A CPU an... Read More...

Zen Engineering Samples from AMD are spotted in the wild

Jeff Williams

July 20, 2016

CPUs

Zen is certainly a long overdue architecture change for AMD, finally eschewing the bulldozer underpinnings for something far more modern, and a lot faster. Someone, or someones, are just as excited and have see... Read More...

AMD FX 6350 review – is it any good?

Simon den Bekker

June 22, 2016

CPU, CPUs

AMD has been a bit quiet with their CPU releases lately. There haven't been a lot of flagship releases or new sockets for a while now. But they are improving their old CPU's as we speak. They've just released t... Read More...

AMD shows off DOOM playing on Zen, as is tradition

Jeff Williams

June 13, 2016

CPUs, News

Zen is a hot topic, being the first new architecture from AMD in some time. And one that'll help the company be more competitive in the CPU market once again. In what might just be a kind of nerdy tradition, th... Read More...

Intel and AMD may have inventory issues that might delay Kaby Lake and Zen

Jeff Williams

June 8, 2016

CPUs, News

We've been patiently waiting for AMD's next generation Zen CPU as well as the introduction of Intel's Kaby Lake-based CPUs, though it's now appearing that there might be some supply issues deep in the supply ch... Read More...

[Update] AMD Zen update, a sneak peak at Computex 2016

CreativeMaster

June 1, 2016

CPUs, News

Update: We've mentioned in the article below that we weren't able to identify if Summit Ridge is going to have pins placed on the CPU itself. However folks at JagatReview were able to get a high resolution pho... Read More...

Perspectives on using an Athlon X4 845 for two weeks

Jeff Williams

May 29, 2016

CPUs, Editorials

For the past two weeks I’ve completely changed my PC to one that’s decidedly much more “lower-specced” while I review the Athlon X4 845. It isn’t a flagship, but it isn’t supposed to compete in that segment eit... Read More...

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