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AMD's second-generation Ryzen CPUs have impressive productivity chops, but do they have game? We ran the Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X through...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

Hot on the heels of AMD's healthy earnings report yesterday, Intel posted strong Q1 2018 results of its own this afternoon. The blue team took...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Jim Keller has worked for some of the biggest heavyweights in the silicon industry, including DEC, AMD, Broadcom, and Apple. The lead designer of AMD's...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Greetings, gerbils and gerbilettes. I'm not going to write up a pretty intro today, because Amazon's running a hot sale on PC components with fancy...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards Cases Cooling Storage

The best way to get microcode updates for security flaws like Spectre is a firmware patch from a motherboard or system maker. Some manufacturers...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards Windows

In the wake of a solid second-generation Ryzen CPU launch, AMD reported its first-quarter 2018 financial results this afternoon. The company announced revenue...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

The degree and duration of the recent graphics card price hikes has some folks in a frenzy. This writer has even heard others in his...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Motherboards

We wrote yesterday about Dell Precision notebooks in regular and 2-in-1 flavors, plus a host of new models in the company's 25th-anniversary...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing

When I was a kid, I used to agitate my older brother by playing with his Battletech miniatures. Some thirty years later, I'm here looking...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Software

Between elevated prices for graphics cards, the high cost of system memory, and the expense of a headset, getting all the parts together for a...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Displays

We wrote earlier today about Dell's Precision 5530 2-in-1 portable with Intel Kaby Lake-G processors. As impressive as that machine's specs are, the Intel-AMD...

Type: News story Tags: Systems Mobile computing

Howdy, folks. We've just reviewed the Samsung 970 EVO solid-state drive and found it worthy of a TR Recommended award. SSD prices are slowly-but-steadily...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards Power Storage Memory

Dell's been selling business-oriented desktops under the OptiPlex name for 25 years. To celebrate, the company is replacing the entire line with new offerings....

Type: News story Tags: Systems

Intel and AMD's combined work on the Kaby Lake-G hybrid CPU-GPU package is impressive. The combination already demonstrated considerable gaming capability in Intel's...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing Workstations

Intel seems to be bullish about its NUCs. We've recently taken a good look at Intel's Hades Canyon gaming NUC, and now website WinFuture.de...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Systems

AMD's Ryzen 2000-series CPUs with Vega graphics (popularly known as Ryzen APUs) offer both solid CPU performance and respectable GPU performance. It's hard to passively...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Building a basic computer these days is as easy as it's ever been. Building a custom-cooled high-end gaming system is a bigger challenge than many...

Type: News story Tags: Systems Gaming

Dragging windows around or even simply moving the mouse pointer feels smoother and clearer on a high-refresh display. However, refresh rate is only one piece...

Type: News story Tags: Input devices