In our series of Best CPU guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended workstation CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of writing (02-Oct). Numbers in graphs reflect MSRP. Best CPUs for Workstations 2017 Sometimes choosing a …
Over the weekend a Reddit contributor published an alert regarding their recent visit to The Pirate Bay (TBP). Apparently TPB website was causing the PC CPU to run all using eight threads at 80 per cent + utilisation. As noted, that’s usually the kind of CPU …
More news from Intel this morning, this time published directly on their website. With the upcoming announcement of the 8th Generation Core next week to which Intel has already posted teasers to the media, it would seem that someone at Intel decided to add processor details …
This year has been enjoyably eventful for processor releases. Intel launched their 7th Generation processors, Kaby Lake, in January. Then we had AMD release their new high-performance microarchitecture in Ryzen, EPYC and Threadripper. Intel then launched their Skylake-SP Xeon Scalable Platform, based on an upgraded 6th …
A few hours ago Intel officially stated the time and place for the unveiling of the 8th Generation Intel Core processor family (Coffee Lake). Either Intel planned the event to coincide with “the Great American Solar Eclipse”, or it was a happy accident that its marketers …
We are seeing mixed signals concerning Intel’s upcoming Coffee Lake processors, which will be built on the 14nm++ process. We thought it likely that the third range of CPUs built on 14nm, as part of Intel’s new Process-Architecture-Optimisation (PAO) scheme, would be compatible with existing LGA1151 …
Intel’s new Skylake-X line-up demonstrates just how good competition is for the PC hardware market. In the wake of Ryzen 7’s exceptional value, Intel has been forced to react. The impact of AMD’s return to the market is ongoing but in the short term, $700 off …
After launching seven Ryzen processors based on the new Zen microarchitecture, AMD has turned its focus to the data center by releasing the Epyc 7000-series chips. This Zen-based CPU strategy is being further augmented by the announcement of Ryzen Pro, ostensibly AMD’s answer to Intel’s business-optimised …
The big news out of AMD was the launch of Zen, the new high-performance core that is designed to underpin the product roadmap for the next few generations of products. To much fanfare, AMD launched consumer level parts based on Zen, called Ryzen, earlier this year. …
