Author Archives: Gordon Mah Ung

Describing its newest line of Ryzen 4000 G and Ryzen Pro 4000 G chips with graphics cores as the “ultimateâ€� desktop chips, on Tuesday AMD unleashed no fewer than 18 new processors. There’s a catch, though: They’ll be available only in pre-bu… Continue reading →

The XPG Xenia 15 may not look “newâ€� to you if you’ve been conditioned to consider “old hardwareâ€� obsolete the day the new models come out. But it’s actually proof that prior-generation parts can be perfectly relevant, and even as fast a… Continue reading →

Adobe Premiere Pro acceleration usually gets love from Nvidia’s CUDA and Intel’s QuickSync, but AMD has joined the party too.The company posted a blog on Tuesday morning highlighting that the recent Adobe 14.2 update added support for AMD GPUs to i… Continue reading →

Describing its newest line of Ryzen and Ryzen Pro chips with graphics cores as the “ultimateâ€� desktop chips, on Tuesday AMD unleashed no fewer than 18 new processors. There’s a catch, though: They’ll be available only in pre-built systems fr… Continue reading →

The new Dell XPS 17 is drop-dead gorgeous, thin, relatively fast, and has what looks like a potentially show-stopping charging problem.How serious is it? We’ll just say that based on our review unit, it’s enough to recommend that you put a pause… Continue reading →

AMD Threadripper Pro CPUs are coming to take down Intel’s Xeon workstation chips, offering up to 64 cores, 128 threads, 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 4, and up to 2TB of RAM.The company announced four Threadripper Pro chips:
Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3995WX … Continue reading →

That high-performance CPU or GPU you’re eyeballing for your next laptop is nothing if it’s not backed by an effective cooling system. Yet consumers tend to know very little about the cooling in a laptop.We fortunately had time to catch up with Dell’… Continue reading →

Reviews of AMD’s newest “XT� line of Ryzen desktop chips are in and while the CPUs offer improved performance and the best silicon batch, it’s overall a meh, hardware testers say. AMD

The lack of stock cooler and mostly competition with the… Continue reading →

Timing is everything in the PC business, and the Dell XPS 15 9500, an overdue refresh to the company’s high-end workhorse, arrives just in time for it to be truly considered the “MacBook Pro killerâ€� it’s always aspired to be.Yes, we know “… Continue reading →