AMD Ryzen 5 1600X – Overclocking to 4.1GHz With No Manual Voltage Increase A recent trip to the local Micro Center location in St. Louis, Missouri showed that all the AMD Ryzen 5 6-core processors Continue reading “AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Overclocked Benchmark Results At 4.1GHz”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Apr. 27, 2017 at 9:56pm
Gaming Performance Showdown AMD Ryzen 1700x vs Intel i7-7700K We have been reading and seeing a lot of performance and testing done on the latest AMD CPU, the Ryzen 7 1700X. After it was released, Continue reading “Intel Core i7-7700k versus AMD Ryzen 1700X 14 Game CPU Showdown”. …more
By Steven Kean •
Apr. 25, 2017 at 1:18pm
Intel Optane Memory Will Speed Up Your Hard Drive If you building a PC on a budget this year you’ll likely find yourself deciding between a high capacity Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or a smaller, Continue reading “Intel Optane Memory Review – 32GB Module With 3D Xpoint Tested”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Apr. 24, 2017 at 4:22pm
AMD Radeon RX 580 Arrives – RX 480 Enhanced The AMD Radeon RX 500 series was released this week and the new Polaris based graphics card series consists of the Radeon RX 580, RX 570, Continue reading “Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 Limited Edition Video Card Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Apr. 20, 2017 at 6:35pm
Tt eSPORTS CRONOS Riing RGB 7.1 Gaming Headset Thermaltake began making gaming peripherals in 2010 through the brand Tt eSPORTS to appeal to the growing PC gaming market. Along with Tt eSPORTS lineup are a Continue reading “Tt eSPORTS CRONOS Riing RGB 7.1 Gaming Headset Review”. …more
By Immanuel Decano •
Apr. 17, 2017 at 1:49pm
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X – Overclocking to 4.2GHz The AMD Ryzen 5 1500X is the newest 4-core, 8-thread processor to come out and at $189.00 it might make for a compelling budget system build that Continue reading “AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Overclocked Benchmark Results At 4.2GHz”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Apr. 14, 2017 at 2:33pm
AMD Ryzen 5 – 6-Core CPUs Arrive For Under $220 After weeks of leaks the AMD Ryzen 5 series of processors has finally been launched! With the launch of the AMD Ryzen 5 processors, AMD Continue reading “AMD Ryzen 5 1600X and 1500X Processor Reviews”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Apr. 11, 2017 at 2:33pm
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
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