HW 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...
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 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 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 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 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 ArticleWhat Are Memory Timings? CAS Latency, tRCD, tRP, & tRAS (Pt 1)
Frequency is the most advertised spec of RAM. As anyone who’s dug a little deeper knows, memory performance depends on timings as well--and not just the primary ones. We found this out the hard way...
View ArticleHW News - NVIDIA GPU Overstock, RAM Price Fixing Fines
Hardware news hasn’t slowed since Computex; in fact, this week has been among the busiest in months, with several news items out of the “Big Three” manufacturers. NVidia has seemingly purchased too...
View ArticleHW News - China vs. Memory Makers, B450 Chipset Specs
Despite Computex’s imminence, there are still plenty of pre-show announcements and news items to discuss. This week’s anchor item is the “conversation” that Micron has been having with memory...
View ArticleMemory Industry Exposé Exclusive | GN Report
We wrote a couple of scripts to scrape the data shown in this content, showing memory price trends for the year so far. We recently set forth on an information gathering mission to learn about how much...
View ArticleHW News - AMD Going DDR5, HBM for CPUs, & 7nm Challenges
This week's hardware news recap primarily focuses on some GN-exclusive items pertaining to AMD's plans with system memory in the future, mostly looking toward DDR5 for CPUs and HBM integration with...
View ArticleGDDR6 Slated for Next-Gen nVidia GPUs, Mass Production in 3 Months
At GTC 2018, we learned that SK Hynix’s GDDR6 memory is bound for mass production in 3 months, and will be featured on several upcoming nVidia products. Some of these include autonomous vehicle...
View ArticleHW News: NV GPP, RAM Prices Getting Worse, & Coffee Lake in Z170
The past week of hardware news has been peculiarly busy for this time of year, with a deluge of news posting toward the latter half of last week. For major stories, [H]ardOCP’s coverage of nVidia’s GPP...
View ArticleR5 2400G APU Memory Benchmarks & Single vs. Dual-Channel
CPUs with integrated graphics always make memory interesting. Memory’s commoditization, ignoring recent price trends, has made it an item where you sort of pick what’s cheap and just buy it. With...
View ArticleHW News: GDDR6 Mass Production, MSFT Telemetry, & AMD Newhires
This week's hardware news recap teases some of our upcoming content pieces, including a potential test on Dragonball FighterZ, along with pending-publication interviews of key Spectre & Meltdown...
View ArticleRAM Price Report: DDR4 Same Price as Initial Launch
While researching GPU prices and learning that GDDR5 memory price has increased by $20-$30 on the bill of materials lately, we started looking into the rising system memory prices. RAM pricing has...
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