A Tale of Two Chips; AMD’s Story
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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Ryzen 9 3950X Delayed to November, 3rd Gen Threadripper Starts at 24 Cores
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 MorePC Perspective Podcast #556 – Ice Lake vs. Ryzen Mobile, Ryzen 5 3600X Benchmarks
Join 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’s Greatest Hits, Including Will You Still Need Me When I’m 64 Cores
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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Thirdripper Shall Ride!
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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ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha X399 includes everything, even the kitchen sink
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 – EVGA RTX 2060 Ultra, USB4, and the Return of Diablo
PC 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 Teases Massive Freezer 50 TR Semi-Passive Air Cooler
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 – HyperX Cloud MIX, G-SYNC Compatible Monitors
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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Let us see how you handle my Threadripper’s new NUMA Dissociater attack!
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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G.SKILL Announces Trident Z RGB DDR4-3466 32GB for X399
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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Build MEG’s new Ripping Threads
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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Meet the i9-9980XE
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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The Intel Core i9-9980XE Review: Slight Iteration
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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Podcast #520 – Threadripper Processors, BPX Pro SSDs, and more!
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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The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X and 2970WX Review
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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Shopping for new CPU before the end of the year?
The Tech Report took a look at the current market and are now offering their opinion on which ones you should consider. The question is more complicated than simply buying the most…
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Noctua, for a cool quiet Threadripper
With the arrival of the second generation of Threadripper processors comes Precision Boost 2 and Precision Boost Overdrive which changes the testing process when it comes to heatsinks. PB2 means that your…
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