AMD’s Zen 3 CPUs have stormed onto the scene with impressive performance. The top tier offering is the Ryzen 9 5950X – Taking the last generation 3950X’s formula of 16 cores in a consumer CPU and adding Zen3’s state of the art individual core performance to make a CPU that can truly do it all. […]
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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 […]
Ultimate $5000 Ryzen 9 5950X + RTX 3090 Command Center for 2021
Today, this one is for the window shoppers and 1%. There might be a handful of builders in the world that genuinely need this level of performance out of a machine, but there’s not a soul who wouldn’t appreciate it. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we must mention the fact that […]
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 […]
Ryzen 9 5950X vs 5900X: What Are The Key Differences?
From the long-awaited announcement of the Ryzen 5000 series CPUs, to being less than a month from away from their release, PC gaming enthusiasts that love to strive for building the most powerful rig possible have much to look forward to. In fact, with the DDR4 memory type having reached its peak in terms of […]