The GT 1030 GDDR5 received our recommendation on a few occasions, almost all of which were derived from limited supply of the GTX 1050 or RX 550. Even in spite of this forced recommendation, the card did perform objectively well when compared to its prede...

So I think most people will admit that AMD has had a lot of wins this year with all of the Ryzen launches. As I found out in our 1700v7700K coverage the 7700K was still a great performing CPU, especially when looking at gaming performance. But with ju...

You might want to hold off until our Ryzen review, but this is a solid buy with excellent overclocking abilities...

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and Threadripper 1920X are very impressive processors that did extremely well in content creation benchmarks that take advantage of having a 16-core, 32-thread processor in the system. The good news is a good number of app...

Given the recent BIOS improvements for Ryzen and the ever-advancing state of Linux and components like Mesa (although no recent Ryzen-specific work), here are some fresh tests of the current high-end Ryzen 7 1800X compared to an Intel Core i7 7700K on Ubu...

According to the comparison results in most games we can see a slight difference in the results between the processors AMD Ryzen 7 1800X and Intel Core i7-7700K. No surprises in the form of AMD is no advantage, except for CPU tests 3DMark. In real Core i7...

When we tested the Core i3-7100, we concluded that the new Kaby Lake architecture brings no significant performance gain over the former one, Skylake. The only real performance improvement, according to Intel, is on 4K video playback.However, if you must...

The i7-7700K is Intel's highest clocked CPU ever, but ultimately it's only a minor update to Skylake with incremental improvements...

There was some disappointment in the PC community when Kaby Lake was announced. Soon after comparisons to Devils Canyon was the entire buzz on social media. Intel held to their guns though. Were they right in doing so? I think so.Intel has obviously put s...

Intel Core i7, i5, and i3 Kaby Lake Processors -- Find Them At AmazonIntel has a wide array of Core i3, i5, and i7 processors based on Kaby Lake either already on the market or coming down the pipeline. For the most part, the line-up is similar to Skylake...

Well ladies and gentlemen there you have it. Intel's latest 7th generation aka Kaby Lake looks at first glance as a small evolution in processing power. Indeed we were a bit intrigued by the fact that there were no logical Instructions Per Clock gains to...

Since the release of the 2nd Generation of Intel Core Processors they have been dominating the market with a combination of affordability and performance. Whether you have gone down the i5 route with models such as the 2500K or 6600K, or have been stickin...

Where to start with this one folks? On one hand, we see what I feel is the face of complacency on the part of Intel with not having any real IPC gains in this refined 14nm+ CPU. On the other hand, why would they with no real competition in this segment...

This is an interesting conclusion to write. On its surface, the Core i7-7700K and the Kaby Lake-S platform have very few advantages over the current shipping versions of Skylake. The processor has no drastic performance improvements over the 6700K and in...

Intel's Tuesday rollout of 7th-generation Kaby Lake CPU for desktops has met a dubious fanfare of leaked reviews that dismiss the new chip as one huge Core i Yawn. Kaby Lake seems to offer barely any movement forward and when overclocked, apparently gets...

To sum up all of the data we collected over the past few pages, we've condensed our results into our famous value scatter plots. The non-gaming chart shows the performance each chip delivers per dollar, measured as the geometric mean of the results of ou...

Prior to any overclocking the 7800X consumed just 6% more power than the 7700K and these figures are based on the average consumption recorded in six games, so the 7800X certainly isn't being fully utilized here. With both CPUs overclocked the 7800X consu...

So this is what the three year cadence now looks like. Us being in the 3rd year we are on the optimization phase. That means with Kaby Lake we are on the same 14nm node that started with Broadwell and on the same architecture as Skylake. What we do get is...

Intel's new Kaby Lake CPU delivers on the clock speeds the company promised, but the power consumption and thermal characteristics were disappointing based on a leaked sample of the new chip we received and tested weeks ahead of its official launch. The...