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AMD vs Intel – Our 8-Core CPU Gaming Performance Showdown!

Donny Stanley — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:36:59 +0000

As a gamer and hardware enthusiast that spends a lot of time in various PC gaming communities, one of the longest on-going debates has been the best choice for CPU when it comes to gaming; Intel or AMD. While there are users on both sides claiming their favorite brand is the best, we’ve noticed quite …

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AMD Zen Architecture Officially Detailed – Promises 40% IPC Gain Over Excavator

Donny Stanley — Thu, 07 May 2015 11:30:47 +0000

AMD laid out the company’s future to their investors at their financial analyst day, yesterday, and what a future it is. While the company denied the legitimacy of the recently leaked investor presentation, which supposedly offered detailed specifics for their upcoming ‘Zen’ CPU architecture, they did offer some worthwhile details of said architecture. AMD’s ‘Zen’ …

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Build a 1440p Gaming PC Under $900 – Our Build of the Week

Donny Stanley — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:30:04 +0000

Last week we brought you a gaming build for under $900, featuring Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 960, which is a card best suited for playing games at resolutions up to 1080p. This week, we decided to one up ourselves, and bring you a gaming build capable of playing games at 1440p for under $900 USD. Please …

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Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate CPU Cooler Review

Sean Webster — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:00:42 +0000

System cooling is very important in high end systems. Gamers and enthusiasts are always looking for another way to push their system to its limit, whether it be by operating system tweaks or overclocking their CPU for every last bit of performance. With CPUs hitting overclocks in the 4.5GHz to 5GHz range, CPU cooling is …

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Intel Core i7 5960X CPU Review – What Has Become The Industry’s Best

Donny Stanley — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:50:08 +0000

Ever since the first dual-core desktop CPUs started rolling out in 2005, the race to bring more computing cores to desktop processors has been on. Now, nearly a decade later, Intel has pushed ahead further than ever before with the release of the Core i7 5960X, their first ever consumer socketed eight-core CPU. While, this …

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