Recently, there have been rumors circulating about Intel’s answer to their CPU-market nemesis: AMD. The new generation of Ryzen 5000 series processors have blown Intel completely out of the water, as their 10th generation CPUs trail their equivalently priced AMD counterparts in single core and multicore performance – not to mention power consumption and thermals. […]
Ryzen 9 5900X
Best Graphics Cards for Ryzen 9 5900X & 5950X Builds
Purchasing the absolute best CPU for gaming that the consumer market has to offer, means purchasing either the Ryzen 9 5950X, or the Ryzen 9 5900X. Not only have benchmarks from multiple sources (Gamer’s Nexus, Techspot, Tom’s Hardware) proven the superiority of these CPUs in gaming performance, single-core performance, and multi-core performance, but they also […]
Zen 3 RAM Speeds: An Analysis of the Best RAM for Zen 3
We’ve had a few days with our Zen 3 Ryzen 5800X and the bulk of that time has been spent investigating the impact of RAM speed on this new architecture. Since its inception, the Zen design has shown impressive performance scaling with RAM Speed. This a function of the design of the CPU itself. In […]
Best $3500 Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming PC Build for 2021
Next-gen Radeon and Ryzen are… just on the horizon 😊. Zen 3 and RDNA 2 represent some of the most impressive and affordable generational performance improvements that AMD has been promising for years since the launch of the original Zen architecture. They made a fantastic showing last generation for mid-range GPU performance with their Radeon […]
5 Best CPU Coolers for the Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X
AMD has announced the new Zen 3 CPUs and at the top of the tree sit the Ryzen 5900X, which they tout as their high-performance Gaming CPU, and the 5950X which with 16 cores is the ultimate consumer productivity CPU. In this article we’ll recommend the best CPU coolers to ensure that these two CPUs […]