AMD has announced the specifications, pricing, and availability details for its highly-anticipated Ryzen Threadripper and Ryzen 3 processors in a video released this morning that features AMD CEO Lisa Su along with CVP John Taylor. Continue reading “AMD Ryzen Threadripper To Be Released in August Starting At $799”. …more
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Jul. 13, 2017 at 1:42pm
WD My Passport SSD Portable External Drive The WD product portfolio has been missing a portable Solid-State Drive (SSD) for some time now, but that all changed recently with the introduction of the WD My Continue reading “WD My Passport SSD 1TB External Drive Review”. …more
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Jul. 12, 2017 at 10:10pm
Western Digital Announces Industrys First 96-Layer 3D NAND Technology Enhances Storage Leadership in 3D NAND Technology Technology and Operational Execution Remains Strong June 27, 2017 04:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Western Digital Continue reading “WD Announces First 96-Layer 3D NAND Technology”. …more
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Jun. 29, 2017 at 6:59pm
The rumors that NVIDIA and AMD would be coming out with dedicated mining cards that have been optimized for 24/7 use appear to have been real. ASUS has officially launched both an AMD Radeon RX Continue reading “ASUS Cryptocurrency Mining Cards Are Real And Not Coming To North America”. …more
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Jun. 28, 2017 at 10:22pm
Intel SSD 545s Series Arrives With 64-Layer TLC 3D NAND Intel has a number of exciting storage products launching in 2017 and today just happens to be the day they launch the Intel SSD 545s Continue reading “Intel SSD 545s 512GB SATA SSD Review – 64-Layer TLC NAND”. …more
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Jun. 27, 2017 at 2:13pm
AMD launched their EPYC 7000 processor series last week and a number of server boards have started to pop up from various board makers. AMD let the world know that they were looking to dominate Continue reading “Gigabyte MZ31-AR0 Motherboard Released For AMD EPYC 7000 Processors”. …more
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Jun. 26, 2017 at 5:35pm
The Intel Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X pre-orders are done and you can now go to your favorite retailer. The bad news is that we just took a look at Amazon and Newegg and it looks Continue reading “Intel Skaylake-X and Kaby Lake-X Processors Available To Purchase”. …more
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Jun. 26, 2017 at 4:25pm
If you play Rise of the Tomb Raider by Crystal Dynamics and use an AMD Ryzen processor you’ll be getting a nice performance increase with the latest version of the game that is already out Continue reading “AMD Ryzen Processors Get Performance Increase in Rise of the Tomb Raider”. …more
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Jun. 26, 2017 at 1:40pm
Over the weekend the Debian developers posted up that they found a rather serious coding bug on Intel 6th Generation Skylake and 7th Generation Kaby Lake processors that have Intel hyper-threading enabled. The issue impacts Continue reading “Intel Faces Hyper-Threading Bug In Skylake and Kaby Lake Processor Microcode”. …more
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Jun. 26, 2017 at 11:36am
If you are mining Ethereum you might have noticed that your hashrate recently dropped if you are using AMD Radeon RX 400/500 series cards. Seeing your mining hashrate drop is nothing new for Ether miners Continue reading “Ethereum Hashrate Performance Drop Might Be Coming – AMD and NVIDIA GPUs Tested”. …more
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Jun. 22, 2017 at 2:48pm
AMD has officially unveiled the new Radeon Instinct family accelerators for deep learning datacenter applications this week in Austin, Texas. The flagship model that is getting the most attention is called the Radeon Instinct MI25. Continue reading “AMD Radeon Instinct MI25 Leads New Class of Deep Learning Accelerators”. …more
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Jun. 21, 2017 at 10:29pm
When the AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor was announced at Computex 2017 no pricing guidance was given and in recent weeks we’ve seen a number of rumors where that price might land. Last night at the Continue reading “What AMD EPYC Pricing Means for AMD Ryzen Threadripper Processors”. …more
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Jun. 21, 2017 at 5:15pm
AMD wants to drive home the message that they are capable of delivering awe-inspiring performance from a single socket server with a number of demos this afternoon at the EPYC launch event in Austin, Texas. Continue reading “One AMD EPYC Processor Reaches 57 GB/s of Random Storage Bandwidth”. …more
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Jun. 20, 2017 at 8:01pm
When AMD first dreamed up the Zen core architecture they did it to disrupt the datacenter platforms and they new they needed a 32-core processor to do that. AMD came up with a new architecture Continue reading “AMD EPYC 7000 Series Processor Set To Change The Game”. …more
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Jun. 20, 2017 at 8:00pm
If you can’t find any AMD Radeon RX 480 and Radeon RX 580 video cards to purchase and don’t want to pay more for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card that is starting to Continue reading “Silent Ethereum Mining On EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 at 22 MH/s”. …more
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Jun. 16, 2017 at 3:25pm