Thanks to Wendell from Level1Techs for his all of his help on this project and pointing us in the right direction! A few years ago, we were fortunate enough to get a fiber internet connection installed at the PC Perspective office. Capable of 1Gbps download speeds and about 250Mbps upload, we were excited at the … Read more
AMD Defends MCM Approach for Building 32-core EPYC: Huge Cost Savings of ~41% AMD has to pick the best-performing dies out of a common bin. The top 5% dies go into powering the company’s Ryzen Threadripper HEDT processors, and a higher percentile go into making EPYC. The relatively smaller 8-core common die has an inherently … Read more
Ryzen 5 1600X: Building a versatile work-and-play PC with AMD’s 6-core CPU champion The Ryzen 5 1600X is here, and AMD’s affordable processor is just as disruptive as the high-end Ryzen 7 CPUs. Hell, maybe even more so. Sure, the 1600X still isn’t quite as fast as the 7600K in some games, but Ryzen nevertheless … Read more