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AMD fans have reason to be cheerful this week, with news of its highly anticipated B550 Chipset specs being detailed online. This could give users a more budget-friendly incentive to upgrade to the new Zen 2, Ryzen 3000 platform. Hong Kong media HKEPC dropped the leaked specifications for the B550 …

This has been quite the week for PC hardware leaks. We’ve been hearing a lot about Threadripper, Intel 10th Gen, Cascade Lake-X and various motherboards but now, we are also getting early news of upcoming graphics cards. Specifically, new GPUs based on AMD’s Navi architecture. Over the weekend, we began …

We've seen a number of Intel and AMD leaks recently, pointing towards new processors and motherboards to go with them. This week, we have an interesting leak from the Eurasian Economic Commission's database, which lists a slew of TRX40, Z490 and X299X motherboards from Gigabyte. This news comes to us …

It's been almost three months since AMD launched its latest RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT graphics cards, based on the Navi 10 GPU. Now, a recent post on Mesa 3D Graphics Library suggests the next Navi 12 and Navi 14 GPUs could be just around the corner. The post …

It's ASRock's £300 X570 offering - what does Luke make of it?

After plenty of rumours, leaks and speculation, today AMD has confirmed 3rd Gen Threadripper's launch in addition to providing an update on the impending release of the Ryzen 9 3950X.

A lot of major tech companies are making the jump to 7nm chips and TSMC has a lot of major clients vying for production lines. According to sources this week, TSMC might be struggling to meet this demand for 7nm chips, which could see production times jump. TSMC makes chips …

At an event in Rome, Italy today, AMD launched a brand new 64-core, 128-thread EPYC processor with faster speeds and a jump up to 280W TDP.

Microsoft has been working closely with AMD for a good number of years now, partnering up on Xbox One and Project Scarlet console hardware. Now, Microsoft may be turning to AMD in other parts of its business, with the latest rumours suggesting that the next line-up of Surface laptops will …

At this point, we know that 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper processors are coming, it is just a matter of when. In the months following Computex, lots of rumours have been circulating, giving us an early idea of what to expect from 7nm Threadripper and its new chipset. Right now, 3rd …

It's Sapphire's flagship RX 5700 XT card, but just how well does it perform?

AMD has been making a big push for new software features this year with new Radeon technologies like Anti-Lag and Radeon Image Sharpening. RIS launched alongside the RX 5700 series and is already on its way to being implemented in a bunch of key games this year, including Gears 5, …

While the first generation of Ryzen processors had some issues maintaining high DDR4 memory speeds, significant improvements have been made since then. Now with 3rd Gen Ryzen and X570, memory makers are able to release blazing fast DDR4 kits tailored to AMD's platform. Corsair's new Vengeance LPX for instance runs …

Last week, AMD addressed complaints surrounding 3rd Gen Ryzen processors not hitting their advertised boost clock speeds. Now, a fix is on the way, with motherboard partners currently working to implement the latest firmware update.

Dig deep with Luke as he analyses the new MSI MEG X570 ACE motherboard

It's a high-end X570 motherboard that costs £390. Is it worth the money?

Last month, we teamed up with FIERCE PC to give away the excellent Fierce PC Shuriken gaming rig, complete with a Ryzen 5 3600 processor and a Radeon RX 5700. We reviewed this very same PC earlier this year, coming away very impressed and now today, we'll be announcing the …

The launch of 3rd Gen Ryzen appears to be going down very well, leading to a big boost in AMD CPU market share.

Borderlands 3 is due out in just a couple of weeks. At this point, we've seen tons of gameplay and learned a lot about the new mechanics/loot systems implemented to bring Borderlands back to the forefront of co-op gaming. Now with the release date just on the horizon, it is …

The class-action lawsuit against AMD over Bulldozer and the definition of a CPU core has now come to an end.

A few days ago, we had the chance to cover the launch of custom AIB versions of the RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT. We reviewed the Sapphire Pulse at launch and have known about the ASUS line up for a couple of weeks now. Today, Power Colour is arriving …

It took quite some time for 4K Netflix streaming to arrive on PC, in large part due to piracy protection and DRM concerns. However, we have now reached a point where most modern GPUs, Ultra HD monitors and Windows 10 all have the required tools in place to allow for …

AMD refuses to slow down as next-gen Zen 3 and Zen 4 architectures are on track.

The long awaited custom-cooled versions of the RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT are hitting the market starting today.

It looks like custom editions of AMD’s RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT GPUs are due to drop any day now. So far, we’ve had pre-orders and retail listings open up for custom-cooled versions from Sapphire and ASUS ROG. Leaks have also shown off what XFX has planned and Power …

AMD has today officially launched its new range of Zen 2-based EPYC datacenter CPUs, codenamed Rome, introducing the world's highest performance x86 processor.

High-end Navi appears to be on the way after all

With the jump to 3rd Gen Ryzen processors and the X570 chipset, RAM speeds have greatly improved on AMD's platform. As a result, we have already started seeing new ‘Ryzen optimised' memory kits hitting the market and today, G.Skill is launching its fastest yet. The new G.Skill Trident Z Neo …

How does AMD's Ryzen 5 3600X fare in the mid-range market segment?

AMD's RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT graphics cards are now officially out in the wild. We have reviewed both and were impressed by what was on offer with AMD's reference design but custom versions from board partners are on the way, although they will take a while to land …