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AMD at CES 2017

AMD, the underdog of the CPU and GPU worlds, made itself known at CES, with a large booth, various displays, and some impressive demos – namely Doom at 4K! Our reporter Drew visited the displays and brought us back these pictures: [mks_separator style=”blank” height=”2″] The booth was spacious, with many displays and demos. [mks_separator style=”blank” …

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Ryzen 5.0GHz air easter egg
Ryzen 5.0GHz air easter egg
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Easter egg discovered in Canard PC’s Ryzen review, expect Ryzen to hit 5.0GHz

On December 28th, enterprising redditor /u/lolwut996633 discovered an easter egg in Canard PC’s Ryzen engineering sample review (source, Reddit.com). Looking at the binary line-break that was hidden in plain site on Page 10, each digit was manually input into a binary to plain text converter. The digits, 010110100110010101101110010011110100001101000000010000010110100101110010001111010011010101000111 translate to ZenOC@Air=5G. If this easter egg holds true, expect AMD’s 8-Core …

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AMD AM4 Bristol Ridge APU De-Lidded

Professional overclocker Nam Dae Won (NameGT) from Seoul, South Korea has de-lidded an AMD AM4 Bristol Ridge APU for all the world to see (Source, Facebook). Likely based on the Bristol Ridge A12-9800 that he took to 4.8GHz back in September (on the stock cooler no less), this unveiling comes with a very pleasant surprise. [mks_separator style=”blank” height=”2″] [mks_separator …

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