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Brandon Hill - Fri, Apr 20, 2018
Earlier this week, AMD took the gloves off and finally addressed the reports that NVIDIA's GeForce Partner Program (GPP) has been causing upheaval in the graphics market. The blog post centered on giving gamers more choice with respect to...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 20, 2018
A shortened version of AMD's Radeon RX Vega becomes more real by the day. Not that the Radeon RX Vega Nano was ever fake—AMD's senior director of global marketing PR, Chris Hook, briefly teased the card at SIGGRAPH 2017—it just has not...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Apr 19, 2018
At the start of the week, we brought you news that an overclocking enthusiast by the name of TSAIK was able to overclock both a Ryzen 5 2600X and a Ryzen 7 2700X to 5.8GHz using liquid nitrogen (LN2). At the time, we pondered what...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 19, 2018
Over on BenQ's website is a new product page for its EX3203R, a 32-inch class (31.5 inches) monitor utilizing a curved VA panel with a 2560x1440 (WQHD) resolution and blazing fast 144Hz refresh rate. The new display is also one of not many...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Apr 19, 2018
AMD initially announced its 2nd Generation Ryzen desktop processors back at CES earlier this year. Our coverage of the event is available for you here, but to quickly recap, 2nd Generation Ryzen processors are based on a refined update to...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 18, 2018
Lest there was any doubt that ASUS was planning to roll out a new AREZ sub-brand for AMD's Radeon Series graphics cards, it's now official—ASUS announced the new "brand identity" for its lineup of Radeon RX products, explaining that it's...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Apr 17, 2018
Updated 4/17/2018: The article below has been updated with a video from AMD which it hopes will drive its point home.
If you've been following the graphics card market during the past few months, then you know about NVIDIA's GeForce...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Apr 17, 2018
We have been hearing rumors of ASUS introducing an AREZ sub-brand for its graphics cards, and specifically for its AMD Radeon Series, and sure enough a visit to the company's website reveals that AREZ is real. While there are no cards...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Apr 17, 2018
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su pumped the brakes on an interview at the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix over the weekend when a former race car driver now working as a commentator for Sky Sports asked, "Excuse me ma'am, do you speak English?" While...
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Brandon Hill - Sun, Apr 15, 2018
In case you haven't been paying attention to what's going on in the AMD world over the past week, the company's second-generation Zen+ Ryzen processors have been announced, and will begin shipping on April 19th. The family includes the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 13, 2018
There was a lot of hype and excitement surrounding Vega, the latest GPU architecture from AMD, spearheaded by former Radeon Technologies Group boss Raja Koduri (who is now at Intel where, among other things, is working on a discrete gaming...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 13, 2018
Less than a week from now, AMD's retail partners will start shipping the company's second generation Ryzen processors, such as the Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600. There will be a rash of new motherboards too, based on AMD's X470 chipset...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Apr 13, 2018
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that AMD's second-generation Ryzen processors have been making the rounds on the internet for a while now, at least unofficially. Production processors were sold accidentally ahead of...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 12, 2018
In case anyone has forgotten about Polaris, the GPU architecture behind AMD's Radeon RX 400 and Radeon RX 500 series of graphics cards, the company has gone and launched a new Radeon RX 500X series that is also based on Polaris. All that...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Apr 11, 2018
An AMD "lifer" is saying goodbye and is moving on to a new venture outside of the company. AMD veteran Chris Hook, who currently serves as the company's Senior Director of Global Product Marketing is leaving the company that he has called...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 11, 2018
In another four months, it will be a full year since AMD launched its first Radeon RX Vega graphics cards to consumers. Thanks to a combination of cryptocurrency miners ravaging the GPU market and a memory chip shortage, graphics cards...
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Shane McGlaun - Wed, Apr 11, 2018
HP has unveiled a completely refreshed line of laptops and desktops for normal users and for gamers in the Pavilion family. Among the new offerings is the Pavilion Laptop 15 packing a 8th gen Intel Core i5-8250U processor, 15.6-inch FHD...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Apr 10, 2018
One year after launching Zen and reasserting itself into the high-end sector of the processor scene, AMD is getting ready to launch a new round of processors based on its optimized Zen+ architecture, followed by Zen 2 next year and Zen 3...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, Apr 09, 2018
Fans of gaming and computer hardware who didn’t get to go to PAX East this year take heart; we have booth video tours from the floor of the show that give you an excellent glimpse at what you missed. Our first video is the tour of the MSI...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 09, 2018
Motherboard makers are gearing up to launch new products based on AMD's X470 chipset, all of which will launch alongside the Santa Clara chip developer's upcoming Ryzen 2000 series. Other than perhaps putting some last minute touches on...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 09, 2018
Later this month, AMD is expected to announce a refresh to its Polaris graphics card lineup, known as the Radeon RX 500X series. Ahead of the official launch, some details have been leaked to the web, including a set of specs for one of...
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Shane McGlaun - Sun, Apr 08, 2018
AMD Ryzen CPU fans who aren’t in the market for the higher-end processors will be happy to hear that another set of benchmarks has leaked pointing to the overclocking prowess of the upcoming AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, which was accomplished...
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