AMD Ryzen Windows Power Plan Disables Core Parking Earlier this morning we were surprised with an e-mail from AMD offering a preview of a new Ryzen Balanced power plan for Windows that is said to Continue reading “AMD Ryzen Balanced Power Plan Benchmarked”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Apr. 6, 2017 at 9:29pm
When the AMD Ryzen 7 platform was released many of the reviews were critical of the 1080P gaming performance on the Ryzen 7 processor series. AMD promised that we would see a series of game Continue reading “AMD Ryzen Performance Update Released For Ashes of the Singularity”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 30, 2017 at 3:12am
When the Samsung 128GB Pro+ Class 10 microSDXC memory card came out in March 2016 it had wicked fast sequential speeds of 95 MB/s Read and 90 MB/s Write with an MSRP of $129.99. Over Continue reading “Samsung EVO Plus 128GB MicroSDXC Memory Card Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 28, 2017 at 2:32pm
Intel Optane technology is something that we’ve been talking about and waiting on for years to reach the client market and it appears that we are finally just weeks away from that important milestone! Intel Continue reading “Intel Optane Memory Arrives With Crazy Low Queue Depth Performance”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 27, 2017 at 4:27pm
AMD X370 Motherboards Meet The FLIR Thermal Imager Thermal performance is important to PC gamers and enthusiasts, so we wanted to take a look at VRM thermal performance on some of the AMD X370 motherboards Continue reading “Thermal Image Testing on AMD X370 Motherboards by ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 24, 2017 at 5:08pm
AMD Ryzen – Single-Rank Versus Dual-Rank DDR4 Memory Performance After finishing up our DDR4 memory scaling article on an AMD Ryzen processor with an AMD X370 chipset powered board we were left wondering if memory Continue reading “AMD Ryzen – Single-Rank Versus Dual-Rank DDR4 Memory Performance”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 23, 2017 at 9:54pm
SteelSeries Arctis 7 Wireless Gaming Headset For Lag-Free Gaming SteelSeries is the most dominant peripheral manufacturer in eSports, with their sponsored teams winning more prize money and competitions than Razer and Logitech’s sponsored teams, combined. Continue reading “SteelSeries Arctis 7 Wireless Gaming Headset Review”. …more
By Sean Sinha •
Mar. 22, 2017 at 3:00pm
Intel 3D Xpoint memory is a non-volatile memory (NVM) technology announced by Intel and Micron in July 2015 and today we are finally getting to see that technology come to market in a data center Continue reading “Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X – Most Responsive Data Center SSD”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 19, 2017 at 4:29pm
ADATA XPG SX8000 – 3D MLC NAND NVMe SSD Aimed At Gamers If you are looking for a new M.2 PCIe NVMe you are in for a treat today as we will be looking at Continue reading “ADATA XPG SX8000 PCIe NVMe 512GB SSD Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 16, 2017 at 1:59pm
The folks over at Guru3D appears to have mixed embargo dates and announced AMD Ryzen 5 series processors yesterday (opps)! AMD long ago said that the Ryzen 5 series was coming in Q2 2017 and Continue reading “AMD Ryzen 5 Processors Start At $169 and Launch on April 11th”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 15, 2017 at 2:32pm
CPU Bottleneck Exposed By GeForce GTX 1080 Ti? Last week, NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition graphics card. This is the fastest desktop consumer graphics card in the world and we were Continue reading “CPU Bottleneck? GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Tested on AMD Ryzen versus Intel Kaby Lake”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 13, 2017 at 10:10pm
HyperX Cloud Revolver S Gaming Headset Looks like the HyperX team is at it again and has come out with a new improved version of the HyperX Cloud Revolver S Headset. This is their flagship Continue reading “HyperX Cloud Revolver S Gaming Headset Review”. …more
By bgiacoletti •
Mar. 13, 2017 at 4:23pm
If you’ve looked at building an AMD Ryzen 7 system you’ll find that the processors are pretty easy to find, but good luck finding a motherboard. Most of the AMD motherboards based on the X370 Continue reading “One Motherboard Maker Explains Why AMD AM4 Boards Are Missing”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 10, 2017 at 2:45pm
NVIDIA Turf Effects Finally Arrive in Ghost Recon: Wildlands On March 7, 2017 Ubisoft released the latest Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon game title, Ghost Recon Wildlands ($59.99 for PC). The game was developed by Ubisoft Continue reading “A Look at NVIDIA Turf Effects in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands”. …more
By brian •
Mar. 9, 2017 at 12:49pm
Answering What DDR4 Clock Speed is Best For AMD AM4 Platforms AMD Ryzen processors are here and the number of people buying AMD platforms has spiked as a result. Those that are running out to Continue reading “DDR4 Memory Scaling on AMD AM4 Platform – The Best Memory Kit For AMD Ryzen CPUs”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 6, 2017 at 9:10pm