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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 01, 2025
The Radeon RX 9070 XT is a solid foundation for a mid-range gaming PC (see our Radeon RX 9070 XT review) and if you're looking to built a white-themed system, ASUS has you covered with a new White Edition of its Prime model. It's the...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Aug 29, 2025
It's not clear how widespread this issue actually is, but some users—and not just crazy overclockers—have definitely experienced a problem where AMD CPUs fail in spectacular fashion, scorching the bottom of the CPU package and the socket...
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Bruno Ferreira - Thu, Aug 28, 2025
The impending autumn is the season of harvest, and the reaper has come for some of AMD's Wraith coolers. Specifically, the company is done with producing its Wraith Prism and Wraith Spire coolers that it introduced with its...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Aug 27, 2025
Here's the actual story for today: well-known leaksman Kepler_L2 posted up some diagrams of his own creation that purport to depict the configurations for AMD's next-generation discrete GPUs. There are four diagrams in total, depicting...
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Bruno Ferreira - Wed, Aug 27, 2025
Framework, one of the more underrated laptop makers around, has been making actual modular laptops for more than four and a half years. The company recently revised its modular Framework 16 laptop, and the new version carries AMD Ryzen AI...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Aug 27, 2025
After releasing the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, a cut-down version of the regular Radeon RX 9070, to the Chinese market, it's said AMD is readying a revised model that will bring more VRAM to the table. It's not clear if any other changes will be made, but if the unofficial information proves...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Aug 25, 2025
Japanese serial leaksman 188号 just posted up two mobile CPU roadmaps: one for Intel CPUs, and one for AMD. Chalk this one up as half-leak, half-rumor, because these clearly aren't official slides from Intel or AMD, but rather seem to be...
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Bruno Ferreira - Mon, Aug 25, 2025
There have been many reports on AMD CPUs dying, with burnt pins on the socket. It's not frequent or particularly widespread, but naturally it caused concern, particularly among gamers, as the CPUs in question were often Ryzen 7 7800X3D and...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Aug 22, 2025
Let's talk about what "open-source" means, because it can get a little confusing. Big software projects have a lot of components, and "going open-source" doesn't always mean that every single component's source code is released. That's...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Aug 16, 2025
The first official sighting of AMD's Radeon AI Pro R9700 out in the wild is now in the books after a user on Reddit scored a Gigabyte variant and then promptly posted a picture of the retail packaging. Announced back at Computex, AMD's...
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Bruno Ferreira - Thu, Aug 14, 2025
Coincedentally, I was just discussing desktop PC power delivery woes with some friends, and voilá, ASUS releases a motherboard that addresses this topic. The ROG Crosshair X870E Hero BTF is one meaty motherboard, ready to take the latest...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Aug 14, 2025
The once heavily lopsided rivalry between AMD and Intel in pursuit of market share and the revenue that comes with it has become a much more tightly contested battle. Case in point, AMD sent us a email highlighting some interesting figures...
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Bruno Ferreira - Wed, Aug 13, 2025
The tech space has no shortage of personalities, and memes about Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and Jensen Huang are in plentiful supply—especially considering how pivotal their decisions are. However, one person who's just as relevant right now is...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Aug 12, 2025
The Xbox has been taking some lumps this year. There has been a wave of layoffs and various headlines claiming that its hardware division is dead. The latter looks like a bad take though, with rumors circulating that there will be a next...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Aug 11, 2025
AMD and NVIDIA have reportedly agreed to pay the United States government 15% of all revenues derived from AI chip sales to China, thereby giving the green light for the former to begin shipping Instinct MI308 accelerators and the latter...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Aug 08, 2025
A semi-trailer loaded with an estimated $15 million in electronics was driven off from an unsecured lot in Reno, Nevada in yet another daring and well-organized theft. Much of the property stolen in the July 3rd heist was AMD and Apple...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Aug 07, 2025
Without a press release, blog post, or even a tweet to mark the occasion, AMD has quietly added a new workstation GPU to its Radeon PRO lineup: the Radeon PRO W7400. This card slots into the company's W7000 series as an even-lower-power alternative to the two-year-old W7500. With a...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Aug 06, 2025
AMD overcame export restrictions on its Instinct MI308 data center GPU to still post its best quarter ever, with revenue increasing 34% year-over-year and 3% sequentially to nearly $7.7 billion. It also saw a giant increase in net income...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Aug 05, 2025
Intel's first socketed microprocessors came in a dual in-line package (DIP) with 40 connectors. The i486 used a variety of sockets, but the most popular had 237 contacts. AMD's "Socket A" for the legendary Athlon CPUs had 462 contacts. Modern CPUs need a whole lot more connectivity, which is...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Aug 05, 2025
AMD is expanding its discrete RDNA 4 GPU lineup with the launch of the Radeon RX 9060, a non-XT version of of the 9060 XT that now occupies the bottom spot in the Radeon RX 9000 series family. According to AMD, the entry-level gaming card...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Aug 04, 2025
It took some time, but AMD managed to breach a 40% adoption rate on Steam for the first time ever, according to Valve's latest Steam survey results. It's not inconceivable that AMD could match or even overtake Intel in Steam usage by this...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 01, 2025
If you read our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, then you already know that it's one of the best options to build a gaming PC around. That was true last November when we put the chip through its paces, presuming you could find it in stock and...
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