$250 Will Get You 6-core 9600K CPU As we wait for our AMD Ryzen 5 3600X processor to arrive for testing we wanted to and take a look at its main competitor, the Intel Core i5-9600K 6-core processor. The Intel Core i5-9600K is currently priced at $249.89 shipped, which is slightly lower than the $279 …more
Most of our readers know that the vast majority of PC games are designed for your mainstream 4-8 core processors. As the processor manufacturers have been rapidly increasing core counts that hasn’t directly translated into better performance. When AMD first introduced their Ryzen Threadripper series of processors in 2017 with up to 16-cores and 32-threads …more
I noticed a number of sites and channels are reporting that the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core, 24-thread processor can be run at full clock speeds with just 1.00V on the CPU VCore. That sounds pretty damn impressive and I just had to give it a try here to see if that is possible and …more
AMD Goes 7nm on Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs Last week AMD Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors based on the Zen 2 architecture finally came to market. AMD launched six new desktop processors of which five are available today. Of the processors that are out today they range in price between $199 to $499. The six model …more
AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su took to the stage tonight as the keynote speaker at Computex 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan. AMD is set to have an incredible year thanks to having both 3rd Gen Ryzen processors and new Navi GPUs built on the latest 7nm manufacturing process. Just like many expected, AMD did indeed …more
Intel’s 2019 Investor Meeting took place yesterday and there were a ton of great announcements for PC enthusiasts. For starters, it was confirmed that Intel’s first volume 10nm CPU, code-named Ice Lake, will begin shipping in June 2019 with systems on the shelf by the holiday season! This next-generation CPU will bring the usual IPC gains, …more
Intel Xeon W-3175X Arrives For Workstations Today, we have a real treat for our readers as Intel sent over a system powered by the mighty Intel Xeon W-3175X 28-core, 56-thread processor for us to try out. Intel has had a 28-core Skylake-SP processor on the market since 2017, but not like this one. Intel wanted …more
Intel hosted an Architecture Day this week in California for analysts and media that allowed Intel’s top executives, architects and fellows to reveal their next-generation technologies to a captive audience. Most of the Intel architecture coverage in 2018 revolved around where are the 10nm products were at and why they were delayed. Legit Reviews was happy …more
Intel Core i9-9980XE – 18-Cores With Higher Clocks Last month, Intel announced the “Basin Falls Refresh” for their Core X-Series HEDT processors. Seven new parts were announced with the flagship of the series being the Intel Core i9-9980XE 18-core, 36-thread processor that is the successor to the Intel Core i9-7980XE 18-core, 36-thread processor launched just …more
9th Gen Intel Core i9 9900K The Intel Core i9-9900K 8-Core, 16-Thread LGA1151 95W desktop processor that was announced earlier this month is finally something you can walk into a store today and purchase! It’s certainly been a long and weird road to get to this point, but here we are. We’ve already covered much …more
Intel announced their 9th Gen Intel Core desktop processors today at a launch event in New York City! The three 9th Gen Intel Core processors unveiled today include the Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K and the Core i5-9600K. The flagship model is the 9900K with 8-cores and 16-threads and clock speeds of up to 5.0 GHz for on …more
Threadripper 2990WX – Pushing The Limits With 64-Threads Today, AMD introduced the first 32-core desktop processor for the consumer market with the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-core, 64-thread behemoth. This processor is the successor to the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-core, 32-thread processor that was released just last year. In just one year we are witnessing …more
Intel recently celebrated 40 years of the x86 instruction set by releasing the 8th Gen Intel Core i7-8086K processor and it can be picked up for $389.00 shipped. Intel introduced the first x86 series processor on June 8, 1978 with the 8086 microprocessor and changed the modern world. The 8086 was a screamer back in the …more
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 – 8-Cores At Just 65 Watts Last month we published reviews on the Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X processors and found AMD’s second-generation Zen models to be off to a great start. Both the models we looked at last month support AMD’s XFR 2 technology though and we weren’t …more