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Matthew Connatser - Wed, Nov 08, 2023
Although it's been roughly a year since AMD launched its 4th Generation EPYC Genoa CPUs, the company is looking back at its 3rd Generation EPYC Milan chips and adding six new models to the lineup. With a focus on value, these new Milan...
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Matthew Connatser - Tue, Oct 31, 2023
AMD drivers come with quite a few built-in features, but many of them couldn't be used at the same time until AMD released HYPR-RX last month. Now, HYPR-RX is coming to the ROG Ally with the device's latest update, and it seems like a...
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Matthew Connatser - Tue, Oct 31, 2023
Although AMD hasn't said a single word on Ryzen 8000, we're already getting more details on the first device confirmed to use a processor from the upcoming series: Minisforum's 3-in-1 gaming tablet. The initial press release for the V3...
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Matthew Connatser - Fri, Oct 27, 2023
The launch of the Ryzen 3000 series in 2019 led not just to a dramatic rise in the performance of AMD CPUs, but also temperatures. Since then, it hasn't gotten any better—the latest Ryzen 7000 series has even pushed the normal operating...
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Matthew Connatser - Mon, Oct 16, 2023
Valve's latest preview update for the Steam Deck's SteamOS, version 3.5.1, is largely a patch for bugs but includes one big ticket feature enthusiasts have been clamoring for: undervolting. This is thanks to the version 118 BIOS firmware...
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Brittany Goetting - Tue, Oct 27, 2020
2020 has been a year marked by a few major tech acquisitions and AMD has recently jumped on this trend. AMD just announced that it will acquire Xilinx for $35 billion USD. This acquisition increases AMD’s total addressable market (TAM) to...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Apr 14, 2018
With AMD's second-generation Ryzen CPUs set to land on April 19, we're beginning to see the inevitable flood of supporting motherboards coming from AMD's close partners. As has become tradition, ASUS has plenty of boards to choose from...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Oct 28, 2017
If you're planning to go the Ryzen Threadripper route with your new build, but haven't yet settled on a motherboard choice, Gigabyte has thrown yet another option onto the pile. While most Threadripper motherboards released up to this...
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Rob Williams - Mon, Oct 02, 2017
At its launch, one of the most common complaints about AMD's Radeon RX Vega cards was their reference cooler, and in particular, its weak cooling performance. Reference coolers are rarely that impressive, but it was especially true with a...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Aug 26, 2017
For ages, a 1ms response time has been the de facto standard for serious gamers, although we think most would agree that up to 4ms isn't too bad. 8ms is outright ridiculous. Well, both 4ms and 8ms seem real lackluster when compared to...
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Rob Williams - Fri, Aug 11, 2017
Hot on the heels of the launch of one of the most disruptive CPUs in recent memory, G.SKILL has announced that it has a full complement of 32GB+ memory kits that will perfectly suit AMD's latest high-end platform, Ryzen Threadripper (read...
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Rob Williams - Mon, Aug 07, 2017
Over the weekend, we talked about an issue surrounding AMD's Ryzen-based processors on Unix-based OSes. Today, we learn a lot more about what's going on, as well as which products are actually affected. But first, let's get the upside out...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Aug 05, 2017
It's starting to look like there's an inherent bug with AMD's Zen-based chips that is causing issues on Unix-based operating systems, with both Linux and FreeBSD confirmed. The bug doesn't just affect Ryzen desktop chips, but also AMD's...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Aug 05, 2017
There's a whole lot of excitement surrounding AMD's Ryzen Threadripper, which is widely expected to be the most potent weapon that AMD's had to do battle with against Intel on the enthusiast desktop in quite some time. Ryzen 7 helped...
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Rob Williams - Thu, Jul 27, 2017
Can you feel that excitement in the air? We're of course talking about one of the most anticipated PC hardware launches of 2017: AMD's Ryzen Threadripper processors. Ryzen's launch in March was an important one for AMD, as it proved to the...
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Rob Williams - Thu, Jul 20, 2017
Are you planning to go the AMD Ryzen route with your new build and want a motherboard that gives it the "high-end foundation it deserves"? If so, ASUS has got the board for you, with its new Crosshair VI Extreme.
The Crosshair VI...
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Rob Williams - Wed, Jul 19, 2017
Ever since AMD launched its Ryzen processors for the desktop, many security conscious users have pleaded with the company to open source its PSP - no, not the portable console, but rather its "Platform Security Processor". This chip is...
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Rob Williams - Mon, Jul 03, 2017
All major Linux kernel releases carry a handful of special updates, but there are some that are still a lot more notable than others. Linux 4.12 is one of those kernels, with even Linus Torvalds stating that it's one of the "bigger...
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Rob Williams - Thu, Jun 29, 2017
It feels a little weird to write about performance results for AMD's EPYC processors and not have to tie the word "leak" into it. As we covered just last week, AMD has finally unleashed its hugely anticipated EPYC processor line for the...
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Rob Williams - Thu, Apr 20, 2017
Who doesn't love getting a little bit more than what they paid for? If you're a Radeon RX 480 owner, you might just be able to experience such a gift, as it's been discovered that a simple BIOS flash is all it takes to turn that card into...
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Rob Williams - Tue, Apr 11, 2017
It's no secret that AMD loves virtual reality, with many folks at the company exhibiting real passion about its possibilities in the future. The sky's the limit, as they say -- or it at least it could be once we figure out what we can do...
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Rob Williams - Thu, Apr 06, 2017
AMD's new Ryzen processors offer a plethora of performance and efficiency benefits over the company's previous generation chip architecture, and even compare favorably against its well-prepared competition -- namely Intel. However, Ryzen's...
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