Introduction Every year seems to pass faster and so do pc components. Asking ourselfs which components are best for gaming is a topic that gets discussed almost every week here at Techjunkies.nl. Not physically on our blog but just that people ask me in person doubting about their hardware of Lees verder…
This year AMD made a big impact on the desktop and (server) market outclassing Intel on almost al fronts with it’s Ryzen 3000 cpu’s based on TSMC’s 7nm architecture. Intel seemed not impressed at first, but recently we learned their upcoming Cascade Lake-X cpu’s will cost 50% of previous generation Lees verder…
Introduction Lately my mediacenter started giving me some headaches. Fans starting to ramp up in the middle of watching a movie breaking the immersion, sometimes doing ramdom reboots and the cpu was running on the hot side as it lacks support for modern video codecs for decompressing 4K video leaving Lees verder…
A while back we talked about the assymetric design of the Ryzen 3000 cpu’s. The cores of the Matisse cpu’s sit on the left side of the cpu, while the much cooler I/O chip sits on the right. One could argue that air cooler heatpipe location or flow patterns of Lees verder…
Introduction This week we wrote a blog about overclocking and cooling of a Ryzen 9 3900X. One aspect we didn’t cover yet is memory and FCLK overclocking on a Ryzen 9 3900X. Overclocking Memory and Infinity Fabric should bring some additional performance. To get some better insight into how overclocking Lees verder…
Yes, even more DDR4 memory news today. G.SKill launches new kits for the upcoming Intel Cascade Lake-X cpu’s and current AMD Ryzen 3000 series. Increasing the capacity to 32GB per stick (DC series, Double capacity) of RAM enables more RAM per system if you are limited on DIMM slots. In Lees verder…
XFX goes back in time. Do you remember the XFX Double Dissipation Radeon R9 290X? Back in 2014 the unique rounded casing made it a distinctive card even including an illuminated XFX logo once the system was turned on. Yes my friends, only 5 years ago, but back then lighting Lees verder…
A few years ago nobody would have thought AMD would return with such a succesfull product as their latest Ryzen cpu’s. With Zen 2 (codename Matisse) which was introduced in July this year, the sales numbers are going through the roof. According to the sales of tech giant mindfactory in Lees verder…