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Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 09, 2024
Have you been trying unsuccessfully to score AMD's fancy new Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors with a heap of extra L3 cache for gaming workloads? You're not alone—it remains sold out at every reputable retailer we checked. You might not find any...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Dec 04, 2024
Let's get right to the point with this one: AMD's SVP & GM of Computing & Graphics, Jack Huynh, tweeted yesterday that AMD will be holding a press event on Monday, January 6th next year. This is interesting, both because we largely know...
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Thiago Trevisan - Tue, Dec 03, 2024
Before the release of any new graphics card, gamers are typically honed in on what its performance will be like (naturally). Power draw has also become a hot topic during the last few generations, though, as GPUs get bigger, more powerful...
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Thiago Trevisan - Mon, Dec 02, 2024
As we near the end of 2024, small morsels of information are starting to hit the rumor mill for the next generation of gaming GPUs. AMD has had RDNA 3 GPUs since December of 2022, and it appears that soon we may have its first stack of...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 26, 2024
If you're building a gaming PC from the ground up, chances are, you have AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor on your radar. At the time of this writing, it remains the one and only consumer Zen 5 processor with a heaping pile of 3D V-Cache. It...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 22, 2024
AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D with a heaping pile of 3D V-Cache to give gaming a boost is one of the best-selling CPUs on Amazon. It's also a brand new and highly-anticipated addition to AMD's Ryzen 9000 series, being the first X3D model in the...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Nov 20, 2024
AMD is a company that is certainly no stranger to building semi-custom processors. Indeed, the semi-custom unit of the company basically kept it afloat for a couple of years before the launch of Ryzen by supplying SoCs to Sony and...
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Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Nov 18, 2024
At the Supercomputing 2024 conference currently underway in Atlanta, AMD, in collaboration with HPE and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), announced what has been officially declared as the world’s most powerful...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Nov 15, 2024
UPDATE: MSI, the maker of the motherboard at the center of both incidents, has issued a statement on the failures—or one of them, anyway. The statement is as follows:
Recently, we received a user report indicating damage to an AMD...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Nov 14, 2024
Once upon a time, the idea of gaming on a machine without a discrete graphics card was basically a laughable proposition, at least if you were trying to play anything other than decades-old titles or other light weight games like Peggle...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Nov 11, 2024
AMD's Zen 5 processors have been out a few months, and you know what that means for journalists like us -- it's time to start looking to the future. The successor to the Zen 5 architecture will naturally be Zen 6, and while AMD has...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Nov 09, 2024
AMD continues to chip away at rival Intel's lead in desktop processor market share, with a not-insignificant 5.7% leap in the third quarter of 2024, according to the latest auditing figures by Mercury Research. And compared to a year ago...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 08, 2024
Gigabyte has gone and quietly introduced its first mini-ITX form factor motherboard based on AMD's X870 chipset, and from the renders we've seen, it's quite the looker. As the model name implies, Gigabyte's new Aorus X870I Pro Ice mostly...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 08, 2024
Go ahead and pat yourself on the back if you managed to procure an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D before retailers ran out of stock. As expected, the 9800X3D, which we deemed to be an "ideal CPU for PC gamers" in our review, is proving immensely...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Nov 06, 2024
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D: $479 MSRP The new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D pairs Zen 5 with 2nd Generation 3D V-Cache to boost gaming performance, increase clocks, and enable more robust overclocking. capabilities. Great Gaming Performance Power Efficient Easy To Cool No Sacrifice General Computing...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 05, 2024
It would be dopey of AMD to only release a single current-generation consumer processor (read: Zen 5) with 3D V-Cache, and also unprecedented. So color us not the least bit surprised that a major hardware partner—Gigabyte, in case you...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Nov 02, 2024
Look, we're all excited for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and there's really no question that if you're primarily playing PC games, you're going to want a CPU with 3D V-Cache. It absolutely is that big of a difference; just look at our Monster...
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Thiago Trevisan - Fri, Nov 01, 2024
Gaming handhelds have exploded in popularity in the last several years on the PC side, mainly thanks to the Valve Steam Deck that initially paved the way. Today. there is a new contender on the block with some impressive hardware in the...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 31, 2024
Surprise! After teasing the next generation of 3D V-Cache processors for consumers for a November 7 arrival, AMD chose today, Halloween, to treat gamers to a much-anticipated announcement—the oft-leaked Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now official...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 30, 2024
Remember when Minisforum teased a tiny Zen 5 titan last month? Now several weeks later, we not only have confirmation on the full set of specifications, but also an introductory discount that shaves $300 off the MSRP on its EliteMini AI370...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 30, 2024
You might not know it by looking at AMD's stock price this morning (more on that later), but the company is coming off its biggest-performing quarter, with third-quarter revenue tallying $6.8 billion. That's an 18% increase year-over-year...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 29, 2024
We've talked a lot about CUDIMMs, or Clock Unbuffered Dual Inline Memory Modules over the past week or so, but that's not the only development in memory. In what we hope becomes a trend, memory makers are starting to implement both AMD...
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