In the past few months, we have written comparison after comparison of AMD’s very successful Ryzen CPU series to Intel’s ultra-fast 8th generation Coffee Lake chips. (For a quick recap, here are a few: Ryzen 7 1700 vs Core i7-7700K and vs Core i7-8700K, Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-7600K and vs Core i5-8600K.) These processors […]
Posts in Category: pc hardware
GTX 1070 Ti Added to Logical Increments
- The Falcon
- 19th Nov 2017
- PC Hardware
A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released the GTX 1070 Ti for $450. As you might expect, its performance and price fall between the GTX 1070 ($400) and GTX 1080 ($500), though it’s thankfully much closer to the 1080. Long story short: At $450, this graphics card is a logical purchase and we are happy to recommend it. We […]
Cryptocurrency and Graphics Cards: GPU Prices Returning to Normal
- The Falcon
- 19th Nov 2017
- PC Hardware
After months of dealing with graphics card shortages and price spikes due to unsustainable demand from cryptocurrency miners, some very welcome headlines have recently come our way: AMD CEO Sees “Leveling Off” in Cryptocurrency Mining Demand Cryptocurrency Mining Sales Cool in Q3, Says NVIDIA
Intel Core i3-8350K vs. i5-8400 vs. Ryzen 5 1500X
- fore1gn
- 24th Oct 2017
- PC Hardware Comparison
Intel’s new Coffee Lake processors have been very competitive with AMD’s Ryzen, as we previously pointed out in our i7-8700K and i5-8600K comparisons against the competition. Finally, we turn our attention to the 4-core 4-thread i3 line. In this article, I’ll be comparing what we know about the i3-8350K against AMD’s price equivalent, the Ryzen […]
Building a PC with the AMD Athlon X4 940, X4 950 and X4 970
- Chris Cunningham
- 18th Oct 2017
- PC Builds
The final piece in AMD’s 7th generation CPU refresh for the AM4 platform comes in the form of three new Athlon processors: the X4 940, X4 950, and X4 970. Unlike the two sets of A-series CPUs (see our 35W and 65W builds), these new Athlons do not come with onboard GPUs. The advantage, however, […]
Intel Core i5-8600K vs Ryzen 5 1600 vs Ryzen 7 1700 vs. i5-7600K
- fore1gn
- 16th Oct 2017
- PC Hardware Comparison
With this month’s Coffee Lake release, Intel finally decided to increase the amount of CPU cores they offer to mainstream consumers. The company’s newest Core i5 CPU, the i5-8600K has been upgraded to 6 cores from last generation’s 4-core i5-7600K. In theory, that should mean significantly better multithreaded performance in addition to Intel’s typical single-threaded […]
What is Hyper-Threading and Simultaneous MultiThreading?
- Chris Cunningham
- 13th Oct 2017
- PC Hardware
With the newly released 8th Generation CPUs from Intel, one feature has gone missing from the Core i3 models: Hyper-Threading (HT). For example, the new Intel i3-8100 features 4 physical cores and 4 threads, whereas the previous generation’s i3-7100 featured 2 physical cores and 4 threads. What is Hyper-Threading, and is it any different from […]
Building a PC with the Intel Core i3-8100 and i3-8350K
- Chris Cunningham
- 12th Oct 2017
- PC Builds
Competition is great. If you can, think back to a year ago. AMD’s CPU selection consisted of several outdated options, and Intel were happy issuing small incremental improvements over the previous generation. What a difference a year makes! Like them or hate them, AMD has massively shifted the market with the release of the Ryzen […]
Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 vs Intel Core i7-7700K
Last week, Intel released their Coffee Lake-based 8th generation CPUs. Intel has been usually refreshing their processors at the beginning of each year, but this one happened a few months early. (Earlier in July, Intel’s X299-based Skylake-X CPUs also experienced a rushed launch.) It seems that AMD’s Ryzen CPUs really did light a fire under […]
RX Vega Radeon Packs: Are They Worth It?
- Chris Cunningham
- 4th Sep 2017
- PC Hardware
With the RX Vega 56 and 64 release comes something new in the form of Radeon Packs. As the Radeon GPU range as a whole is suffering with stock thanks to the cryptocurrency shortage, this seemed like a good idea on paper to limit hoarding for cryptocurrency mining. Yet, I have to ask: Are they worth […]