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…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 25, 2019 | Processors | 0
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…
Read Moreby Jim Tanous | Sep 20, 2019 | Processors | 4
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 Moreby PCPer Staff | Sep 5, 2019 | General Tech | 0
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…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 14, 2019 | General Tech | 0
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…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | May 30, 2019 | General Tech, Processors, Shows and Expos | 1
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...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 10, 2019 | Motherboards | 0
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 Moreby Jim Tanous | Mar 11, 2019 | General Tech | 2
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…
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Feb 21, 2019 | Cases and Cooling | 0
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...
Read Moreby Jim Tanous | Jan 17, 2019 | General Tech | 2
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…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 15, 2019 | General Tech | 3
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…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 14, 2019 | Memory | 2
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…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 7, 2019 | Systems | 0
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...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 13, 2018 | Processors | 4
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…
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Nov 13, 2018 | Processors | 16
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…
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Nov 1, 2018 | General Tech | 10
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...
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Oct 29, 2018 | Processors | 8
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…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 26, 2018 | Processors | 9
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…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 12, 2018 | Cases and Cooling | 1
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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