The Core i5 9600K, arguably is merely a Coffee Lake-S series refresh, in essence, an 8700K lacking hyper-threading. So from a threading performance point of view, it is not surprising to see this ...
Last month, we got our first glimpse of what the new Whiskey Lake chips from Intel will look like. After a strong showing from AMD with Ryzen and Zen, Intel is getting their counter strike ready. From ...
We reached a reasonable 4.2GHz with our Ryzen 5 2600X sample and 4.25GHz with the Ryzen 7 2700X, both using our maximum usual vcore of 1.425V. The Ryzen 5 2600 could only stretch to 4.15GHz with the ...
For years now, the advice for PC gamers pondering a new build has gone something like this: Spend as much as you can on your graphics card, then pick up the cheapest CPU, motherboard and RAM you can ...
Despite the fact that AMD lagged behind Intel in some games, the Ryzen 5 1600 was easily one of the best CPUs available in 2017. In fact, its recent price cuts have seen it fall from a launch price of ...