HW News - OC Battle with Jay, RAM Prices, 2080 Ti Delays, & More
We've been working hard at building our second iteration of the RIPJAY bench, last featured in a livestream where we beat JayzTwoCents' score in TimeSpy Extreme, taking first place worldwide for a...
View ArticleHW News - Memory Prices, the New GTX 1060 "Ti,"& a Fake RX 580
Hardware news for the last week has primarily revolved around re-re-releases of hardware, like NVIDIA's GTX 1060 GDDR5X model and AMD's RX 580-not-580. Both are unimaginative, but worth covering. For...
View ArticleHW News - RAM Price Fixing Evidence, CPU Shortage Through March
The memory supplier price-fixing investigation has been going on for months now, something we spoke about in June (and before then, too). The Chinese government has been leading an investigation into...
View ArticleHW News - Intel 7nm EUV CPUs, Memory Prices Drop for 2019
Extreme Ultra-Violet Lithography is something of a unicorn in the space of silicon manufacturing, and has been discussed for generation upon generation. EUV only recently started seeing any form of use...
View ArticleHW News - Memory Prices Finally Decreasing, AMD Clarifies Vega Price, &...
The best news of the week is undoubtedly the expected and continued decrease in memory prices, particularly DRAM prices, as 2019 trudges onward. DRAMeXchange, the leading source of memory prices in the...
View ArticleHW News - Record Intel CPU Shortages & Record DRAM Price Drops Since 2011
Our hardware news coverage has some more uplifting stories this week, primarily driven by the steepest price drop in DRAM since 2011. System builders who've looked on in horror as prices steadily...
View ArticleThe $500 Memory Stick: ZADAK 32GB Double Capacity Overclocking
ASUS grew impatient waiting for Samsung to reach volume production on its 32GB DDR4 UDIMMs, and so the company instead designed a new double capacity DIMM standard. This isn’t a JEDEC standard, but is...
View ArticleRyzen 3000 Memory Benchmark & Best RAM for Ryzen (fClock, uClock, & mClock)
Memory speed on Ryzen has always been a hot subject, with AMD’s 1000 and 2000 series CPUs responding favorably to fast memory while at the same time having difficulty getting past 3200MHz in Gen1. The...
View ArticleHW News - 80-Core CPU Newcomer, LGA1200 Socket, GDDR6 Price Hike in 2020
For this hardware news recap, we're starting out with an update of our recent charity PC build we did for Cat Angels, a local-to-us cat shelter, then moving on to the Ampere Computing 80-core CPU....
View ArticleHW News - AMD Ryzen C-Series CPUs, GDDR6X Thermals, Amazon Game Streaming
Even with Nvidia's RTX 30-series launches the past couple of weeks, it has still been busy on fronts outside of new GPUs. We’ve been exhaustively testing the various aspects of the RTX 3080 and 3090...
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