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Intel's Core i9-7900X and its Skylake-X brethren bring AVX-512 support, a new cache hierarchy, and a new on-die interconnect to high-end desktops. We examine how...

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AMD's Ryzen 5 CPUs are here. In part one of our review, we go Inside the Second to see whether the Ryzen 5 1600X and...

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Asus' X99-A was one of our favorite X99 motherboards when it first hit the market. With the advent of Broadwell-E, Asus refreshed this winning formula...

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