Previously, I thought of AMD's FX series of CPUs to be complete and utter garbage. High cost, low single threaded performance, and multi threaded performance that was impossible to take advantage of at the time it was released. However, after a good 6 years, the AMD FX series are not that bad of a buy. … Continue reading The AMD FX Chips Don’t Suck (Anymore)?
Month: January 2019
Sub-$800 Mini-ITX PC Build
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xc3LXP This is a build created for people who like small form factor PC's and plenty of power in an inexpensive package. It sports a Ryzen 5 2600, which comes with a stock cooler and can easily be overclocked to 4.0 GHz. Its motherboard has onboard WiFi and Ethernet giving it a good amount of … Continue reading Sub-$800 Mini-ITX PC Build
Huawei P20 Pro Review
Huawei is quite a controversial company. Many Americans fear the possibility of Huawei installing software that will allow the Chinese government to spy on them, but nevertheless, when I saw the Huawei P20 Pro being released, I bought one myself. I've used it since May of 2018 and I think that now is the time … Continue reading Huawei P20 Pro Review
AMD’s 3000 Series Ryzen Mobile Chips – Better Than Expected?
In late 2017, AMD released their Ryzen 2000 series mobile CPU's although they sported CPU performance comparable to Intel 8th Gen mobile CPU's and much better mobile performance, they were not well received by the public. A large reason is due to the lack of driver optimizations and the problem of too much power consumption … Continue reading AMD’s 3000 Series Ryzen Mobile Chips – Better Than Expected?
Nvidia Will Still Remain As The Dominant GPU Company
In AMD's keynote yesterday, they made only one product announcement: The Vega VII. It retails for $699 US and is built on AMD's new 7nm process. The specs seem to be impressive, with a whopping 1 TB/s of memory bandwidth (compared to 616 GB/s on the RTX 2080 Ti), 16 GB of HBM2 (compared to … Continue reading Nvidia Will Still Remain As The Dominant GPU Company
Why AMD Not Announcing Specs Of Zen 2 In Their CES 2019 Keynote Is A Very, Very Good Thing
In AMD's CES keynote today, I, with probably many others, was very disappointed when Dr. Su did not disclose the specs of Zen 2. However, as many people in the subreddit r/AMD have pointed out, Zen 2 pretty much confirmed at this point to have 8x2 cores (for a total of 16) on the naked … Continue reading Why AMD Not Announcing Specs Of Zen 2 In Their CES 2019 Keynote Is A Very, Very Good Thing
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