Ryzen
Corsair has introduced a family of registered memory modules with ECC that are designed for AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 7000 and Intel's Xeon W-2400/3400-series processors. The new Corsair WS DDR5 RDIMMs with AMD EXPO and Intel XMP 3.0 profiles will be available in kits of up to 256 GB capacity and at speeds of up to 6400 MT/s. Corsair's family of WS DDR5 RDIMMs includes 16 GB modules operating at up to 6400 MT/s with CL32 latency as well as 32 GB modules functioning at 5600 MT/s with CL40 latency. At present, Corsair offers a quad-channel 64 GB kit (4×16GB, up to 6400 MT/s), a quad-channel 128GB kit (4×32GB, 5600 MT/s), an eight-channel 128 GB kit (8×16GB, 5600 MT/s), and an eight-channel 256 GB kit (8×32GB...
GIGABYTE at CES 2018: A First Look at X470
LAS VEGAS, NV – One of the announcements from AMD’s Tech Day prior to CES was that of a new chipset coming to the Ryzen market. The purpose of...
14 by Ian Cutress on 1/16/2018Maingear Displays New F131 Desktop with new ‘Apex’ Integrated Cooling
LAS VEGAS, NV — Maingear hit the CES 2018 floor armed with its new flagship F131 desktop gaming PC that has been redesigned from the ground up to the...
8 by Joe Shields on 1/11/2018ASRock Unveil Their New microATX Threadripper Motherboard, The X399M Taichi
LAS VEGAS, NV — It is no secret that AMD's Threadripper multi-core processor is a beast goes without saying and 16c/32t of computing power is nothing short of impressive...
18 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/9/2018AMD Updates Ryzen SKU Pricing To Counter Intel
LAS VEGAS, NV — 2017 was by many measures a breakout year for AMD and some of the first news out at the beginning of 2018 is its plans...
32 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/8/2018More Ryzen Mobile: Acer Swift 3 with 2700U and 2500U Listed, From $750
Back at the Ryzen Mobile launch, AMD announced three primary partners with three devices: the HP Envy x360, the Acer Swift 3, and the Lenovo Ideapad 720S. At the...
33 by Anton Shilov on 12/19/2017AMD Ryzen CPU Giveaway: Win A Ryzen 5 1600X, Ryzen 5 1500X, or Ryzen 3 1300X
In the mood for some free hardware? Well then you're in luck: our awesome community team has collected a few of AMD’s Ryzen CPUs and put together a giveaway...
19 by Ryan Smith on 12/8/2017AMD Makes a Surprise Appearance: Ryzen Mobile with Qualcomm LTE
One of the surprises at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Technology Summit was the presence of AMD. Out of no-where, Kevin Lensing, CVP and GM of the Client Business Unit at...
31 by Ian Cutress on 12/5/2017AMD Launches Prey & Wolfenstein II Game Bundle for Radeon RX Vega Cards
AMD has kicked off a new campaign that adds free digital copies of Prey and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus to select Radeon RX Vega 64 and Vega 56...
14 by Anton Shilov on 11/27/2017ASUS Launches ROG Strix GL702ZC: 17.3-inch, Eight-Core AMD Ryzen 7, Radeon RX580
ASUS this week introduced the industry’s first gaming laptop powered by AMD’s eight-core Ryzen 7 1700 processor. The ASUS ROG Strix GL702ZC-WB74 is a 17.3” desktop replacement machine that...
19 by Anton Shilov on 11/22/2017Ryzen Mobile Now On Sale: HP’s ENVY X360
The biggest question when AMD formally launched its Ryzen Mobile platform was all about ‘when’. At the time AMD announced three primary partners and three systems, with the aim...
65 by Ian Cutress on 11/14/2017QNAP Begins to Ship AMD Ryzen-Based TS-x77 Series NAS: 6, 8, 12 Bays
QNAP on Wednesday said that it had begun to ship its NAS devices based on AMD’s Ryzen processors. The new TS-677, TS-877 and TS-1277 NAS feature six, eight, or...
25 by Anton Shilov on 11/3/2017AMD's Progress on Its 25x20 Goal: The Task Ahead
When AMD announced it was creating the new high-performance Zen core, they set a lofty goal. They wanted to produce products that offered 25x the relative efficiency (performance per...
20 by Ian Cutress on 10/26/2017HP Announces ENVY x360 15 With Ryzen Mobile
As part of the launch for the new Ryzen Mobile platform from AMD, HP is today announcing a refresh of their HP ENVY x360 15-inch laptop which features the...
43 by Brett Howse on 10/26/2017Ryzen Mobile is Launched: AMD APUs for Laptops, with Vega and Updated Zen
The final piece of AMD’s return to high-performance computing is in laptops. While Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC have used the 8-core Zeppelin building block for their products, the laptop...
141 by Ian Cutress on 10/26/2017AMD Launches NVMe RAID Support For Ryzen Threadripper Platform
A week later than originally planned, AMD is launching NVMe RAID support for their Ryzen Threadripper platform. Grab the Windows 10 drivers and release notes here. This updated RAID...
47 by Billy Tallis on 10/2/2017Memory Scaling on Ryzen 7 with Team Group's Night Hawk RGB
A large number of column inches have been put towards describing and explaining AMD's new underlying scalable interconnect: the Infinity Fabric. A superset of HyperTransport, this interconnect is designed...
65 by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 9/27/2017GSkill Announces New AMD Compatible Trident Z RGB Kits
With both AMD Ryzen and Threadripper platforms continuing to mature, we’ve seen an increase in the two platform’s ability to handle higher capacity and faster RAM and be stable...
13 by Joe Shields on 9/22/2017Now Shipping: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X & Ryzen Pro CPUs
Back when AMD announced their leading-edge Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X, the company also tucked in an announcement that there would be a third, cheaper Threadripper: the 1900X. Now...
19 by Ryan Smith on 8/31/2017Retesting AMD Ryzen Threadripper’s Game Mode: Halving Cores for More Performance
For the launch of AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper processors, one of the features being advertised was Game Mode. This was a special profile under the updated Ryzen Master software that...
104 by Ian Cutress on 8/17/2017The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review: CPUs on Steroids
In the early 2000s, we had the battle to high frequencies. The company that could force the most cycles through a processor could get a base performance advantage over...
349 by Ian Cutress on 8/10/2017