Obviously we also had to peek at memory bandwidth performance. The new memory controller works well for AMD's FX series as performance has skyrocketed. We let the motherboard decide what default ...

I’m a budget-oriented gamer. So much so, in fact, that once I build a PC that suits my needs for the games I play, I tend to “sit on it” for years. I completed my last build way back in 2010, and even ...

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AMD's first round of FX desktop processors-- built on Bulldozer architecture -- couldn't score a knockout punch against Intel's competing CPUs, but the company is getting close to going another round ...

AMD suggests that both the new E Series eight-cores be paired with its own Radeon R9 285 graphics processors in desktop systems using an AMD 970 board and DDR3-1866 memory. The chip maker also ...

The Mandel FPU benchmark measures double precision (also known as 64-bit) floating-point performance through the computation of several frames of the popular "Mandelbrot" fractal. The code behind this ...