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AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900 Blurs The Line Between Performance And Value

Home News AMD Ryzen 5000 Processor (Image credit: AMD) Hardware detective Tum_Apisak has spotted AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900 in a new benchmark. The 12-core processor appears to be a complete monster, but it’s a shame that the chip is exclusive to OEMs. Coming out of TSMC’s 7nm furnace, the Ryzen 9 5900 is just like… Read more

Intel’s Upcoming DG2 Rumored to Compete With RTX 3070

Home News (Image credit: Intel) According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, Intel’s successor to the DG1, the DG2, could be arriving sometime later this year with significantly more firepower than Intel’s current DG1 graphics card. Of course it will be faster — that much is a given — but the latest rumors have it that… Read more

AMD’s Zen 3, Navi 2 APUs With DDR5 Support May Arrive Next Year

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) A Twitter user has shared an alleged AMD roadmap that details the chipmaker’s plans for its next-generation mobile APUs. Respected hardware leaker kopite7kimi got word that the roadmap looks accurate. Nevertheless, approach the information with caution since roadmaps are known to change as time progresses. The roadmap reveals AMD’s upcoming… Read more

Corsair K70 RGB TKL Review: Little Wonder

Our Verdict The Corsair K70 RGB TKL is a powerful yet compact gaming keyboard. We didn’t notice an immediate benefit from the 8,000 Hz polling rate, but with a sleek look plyus premium media controls and keycaps, this keyboard’s in a league of its own. For + Space-saving, durable build + Premium keycaps + Media… Read more

Asus Unveils AMD Ryzen 5000 ‘Cezanne’ Powered UCFF Desktop

Home News (Image credit: Asus) In recent years a number of PC makers have introduced small form-factor (SFF) and ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) computers based on AMD’s latest accelerated processing units (APUs), but none of those systems are as tiny as Intel’s NUCs. Asus is one of a few manufacturers to actually offer its Mini PC… Read more

Mysterious GPU Could Be AMD’s Next-Gen Big Navi Radeon Pro GPU

Home News AMD Radeon Pro GPU (Image credit: Chiphell) An unidentified Radeon Pro graphics card has emerged overseas in China. The graphics card, which appeared on the Chiphell forums, could be one of AMD’s forthcoming Big Navi Radeon Pro offerings. But take this leak with a grain of salt. Like AMD’s other Radeon Pro SKUs,… Read more

AMD inexplicably threw scalpers a bone with limited-edition Radeon RX 6800 XT ‘Midnight Black’ GPU

Because the world desperately needed another GPU people can’t actually buy, AMD decided to release a limited-edition “Midnight Black” version of its Radeon RX 6800 XT early Wednesday morning, where it sold out before most people even saw the card was there. You might be thinking: “Why would you release a limited-edition version of something… Read more

Team Group T-Force Dark Z FPS DDR4-4000 MHz CL16 2×8 GB Review

Introduction With memory prices continuing to plummet, now is a great time to be looking for memory upgrades as there is competition from both Intel and AMD, and the Red brand has thoroughly fixed the memory issues of generations past. No longer do users have to worry about memory compatibility or shopping for expensive AMD-branded… Read more

Microsoft Uses Boiling Liquid to Cool Data Center Servers

It probably won’t make the list of best CPU coolers for end users anytime soon, but Microsoft’s data center servers could be getting a massive thermal management upgrade in the near future. Right now, the software giant is testing a radical new cooling technology known as boiling liquid, which promises to be higher performance, more… Read more

AMD Rolls Out Patches To Disable Predictive Store Forwarding on Zen 3 CPUs

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Making good on its promise, AMD has deployed new patches to the Linux kernel to mitigate the potential security risk with the Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF) feature. Linux publication Phoronix spotted five patches that allow users to disable Predictive Store Forwarding if security is a concern. Predictive Store Forwarding is… Read more

Alienware Launches its First AMD Laptop Since 2007

Home News (Image credit: Dell) Alienware is releasing its first laptop with an AMD CPU since 2007. Its parent company, Dell, today announced the Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5, alongside a lower-end Dell G15 Ryzen Edition and a Dell G15 refresh with Intel chips. The Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 will use AMD’s Ryzen 5000… Read more

Dell Preps 240Hz Gaming Monitor With IPS Panel

Home News Dell S2522HG (Image credit: Dell) Dell is hopping into the spring with a quartet of new gaming monitors, including a speedy IPS option and a smattering of curved screens with some speed of their own that also prove that there’s still room for VA panels in the gaming space. The monitor maker is… Read more

AMD Launches Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black Edition

Home News (Image credit: AMD) According to a leak reported at VideoCardz, at 6am PST AMD plans to release a special black edition of its Radeon RX 6800 XT. AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black edition graphics board is based on the Navi 21 GPU featuring 4608 stream processors, 288 texture units (TUs), and… Read more

Intel Core i5-11400F Review – The Best Rocket Lake

Introduction Intel last week debuted the 11th Gen Core “Rocket Lake” desktop processor family, and we had launch-day reviews of the Core i9-11900K flagship and the mid-range Core i5-11600K. Today we bring you the Core i5-11400F—probably the most interesting model in the whole stack. The often-ignored SKU among Intel desktop processors among the past many… Read more

Dell’s speckled G15 brings high-end AMD Ryzen processors to value-minded gamers

Alongside the Alienware M15 R5 Ryzen Edition, Dell is also launching a more affordable 15-inch Dell G15 Ryzen Edition gaming laptop. It’s for people who still want to experience AMD’s fast Ryzen 5000 H-series processors, along with an Nvidia RTX 3060 graphics chip, but for less. If the M15 R5’s $2,229.99 starting price is too… Read more