We’re taking a short break from our usual component-focused reviews to look at a pre-built desktop system, but this is no ordinary computer. An epic build, the system is outfitted with an…
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To cap off its CES 2020 Keynote, AMD expanded its third-generation Threadripper lineup with the announcement of the 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 3990X. AMD previously launched the 24-core Threadripper 3960X...
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Meet the two members of the third generation of Threadripper, the 3960X and 3970X. At $1400 and $2000 respectively, we are seeing a complete reversal of the CPU market, it is now…
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Those eagerly anticipating the “September” launch of AMD’s flagship Ryzen 9 3950X processor will need to wait a bit longer. Amid shortages of the already launched 3900X and...
Read MoreJoin us this week as we look at reviews of the Ryzen 5 3600X, the just-launched Ice Lake i7-1065G7, a pair of gaming headsets, the latest Threadripper rumors, and more! 00:00:06 - Intro 00:01:45…
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Threadripper is fun to guess about, as we did on several podcasts, most recently wondering what place there will be for it after AMD's Ryzen 3950X hits the streets with it's 16…
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As Dr. Su responded when questioned about the future of Threadripper, "it's very interesting, some of the things that circulate on the internet". In an interview about the future of...
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If you push your Threadripper to the limit of its capabilities you are going to need a serious X399 motherboard. MSI's MEG Creation has been the go to board for quite a…
Read MorePC Perspective Podcast #535 - 3/7/2019 Editor's Note: Our apologies for the delayed release of this week's podcast. We had an increasingly catastrophic storage disaster that required some lengthy data recovery. But we're back…
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Arctic (ARCTIC) is reportedly working on a new air cooler for the AMD Threadripper / TR4 platform according to AnandTech who spotted a prototype on display during a...
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PC Perspective Podcast #529 - 1/16/2019 This week on the show, we look at a review of a new wireless gaming headset from HyperX, talk about the new G-SYNC Compatibility program for FreeSync…
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With Threadripper, AMD introduced something new and different to the market, a HEDT architecture with nonuniform memory access. This has met with mixed results, as is reasonable to expect from such a…
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Threadripper's architecture loves high frequency RAM, though it can be a bit picky at times and you will have a far better experience sticking with vaildated RAM ... though you certainly don't…
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If you haven't seen a Threadripper in person, or are just looking to sit back and enjoy watching someone set up a system then head over to [H]ard|OCP. They've just...
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The new ~$2000 i9-9980XE is a refreshed Skylake chip, using Intel's 14-nm++ process, with 18 multithreaded cores running at 3GHz with a Boost clock of 4.4GHz. If you were to lift up…
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Shopping for a CPU in 2018 has been a bit of a moving target. Between the launch of AMD's Ryzen 2000 series processors in the beginning of the year, new AMD Threadripper…
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PC Perspective Podcast #520 - 11/01/18 Join us this week for discussion on the new Threadripper Processors, BPX Pro SSDs, and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still access...
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In general, the rollout of AMD's second-generation Ryzen Threadripper processors has been a bit unconventional. While the full lineup was announced back in August, there has…
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