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AMD Face Legal Action Over Last-Gen Processors
AMD Bulldozer & Piledriver AMD might be riding high on the crest of Ryzen at the moment. It seems, however, that the business is not entirely concluded in regards to the previous generation of processors. The ‘Bulldozer’ and ‘Piledriver’ range of CPUs were highly popular largely due to two reasons.…
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AMD Releases VR-Ready CPU List
With the arrival of the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and other VR headsets later this year, the talk has turned to the hardware necessary to drive these displays. Unlike regular gaming, VR gaming will require much higher framerates, meaning higher performing hardware. While Oculus has released their own system hardware checker,…
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AMD Releases FX-6330 Black Edition CPU
While Zen may still be a long way off, AMD isn’t just sitting around without new CPUs to launch. Stealthily launched, AMD is releasing a new FX-6330 chip to slot into their lineup but unfortunately only for the APAC (Asian Pacific) region for now. Set to replace the aging FX-6300 at…
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AMD FX-8370E 95W “Piledriver” Octa-Core Processor Review
Introduction & What’s New? The 32nm “Vishera” processors from AMD have been around for a long-while; since October 2012 to be exact. Vishera was AMD’s Zambezi successor with Vishera being based on the Piledriver architecture and Zambezi on Bulldozer. Since the first release of Vishera, AMD has continued to refresh its…
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Rumour: AMD Preparing Three New CPUs: FX-8370, FX-8370E and FX-8320E
AMD may have given up the fight with Intel in the very high end market but in the sub-$200 “mainstream” market, where most CPUs are bought, AMD is still putting up a fight. The latest move by AMD will be to launch a refreshed range of Piledriver processors, three to…
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New AMD FX-Series Processor Is Coming: Ships With A Liquid Cooling System
AMD’s Roy Taylor, the Vice President of Global Channel Sales, has revealed an upcoming AMD FX-Series processor on Twitter. He revealed a picture of a new product which is an FX-Series Processor with an integrated liquid cooling system. The packaging clearly indicates we will see a closed loop water cooler…
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AMD Kaveri Review: A10-7850K, A10-7700K and A8-7600
Introduction If you follow our website and the technology industry more broadly then you may have heard a lot about Kaveri since it was officially launched on January 14th 2014. Kaveri is the codename for AMD’s fourth generation of desktop APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) after Llano, Trinity and Richland. In…
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Cyberpower PC ‘Ultra Fusion’ AMD Gaming System Review
Introduction When I get a full system in for review, typically I will find an Intel CPU lying at the heart of the system and whilst this is partly due to their high level of popularity,; along with their multitasking abilities – for some the overall cost factor can be…
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AMD’s FX-9590 Gets A Huge Price Cut, Joins The HD 7990
AMD’s FX-9590 CPU has just has its price cut in the UK from the £700 MSRP all the way down to a £300 MSRP. This means the FX-9590 is now around twice the price of the CPU it is based on, the FX 8350, which costs about £146. The retailer in…
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Gigabyte Reveal Revision 4.0 Of The 990FXA-UD3
With AMD still some way off a new motherboard platform release motherboard vendors are limited to just revamping old designs with new features, such as we saw Gigabyte do recently with the 990FXA-UD7. Their latest updates are being allocated to the mid-range 990FXA-UD3 AMD motherboard and these updates take it…
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AMD’s FX-9590 Gets Final Pricing
AMD’s FX-9590 CPU is going to be a special limited edition processor from AMD. You can read more about the specifics here but it will basically boast the title of the first commercially available CPU that is capable of 5GHz out-of-the-box without any overclocking. In terms of pricing we were…
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Gigabyte Updates Flagship 990FXA-UD7 Motherboard To Rev 3.0
AMD motherboard haven’t really seen much change over the past couple of years and since the release of Bulldozer back in October 2011 we haven’t seen any new chipsets for the AM3(+) socket. Due to this fact motherboard vendors have mainly been opting for either BIOS updates to keep these…
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AMD Super Pi Performance Fixed With Patch, Benchmark Record To Be Smashed
AMD has always been very poor at Super Pi test scores since the Bulldozer architecture was released. You only need to take a quick glimpse at the graph below to see that both Bulldozer and Piledriver based AMD CPUs flat-out suck, there is no other way to put it. The…
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AMD Unveils Server Roadmap: Steamroller Coming Early 2014, ARM Late 2014
AMD has just revealed to us today their updated 2013 to 204 server roadmap. AMD’s server roadmap is often an indication of the consumer CPU market in that new architectures tend to hit the server platforms about 3-6 months before the consumer platforms. That said what is quite interesting about…
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AMD Confirms FX-9000 Processors Will Not Be Available Individually For Consumers
AMD recently released two brand new processors to its FX portfolio. These consisted of the FX-9590 and the FX-9370 processors. Below is a quick recap of the details about those two processors from our previous article: The FX-9590 and FX-9370 CPUs both run AMD Turbo Core 3.0 which allows the…
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