I thought about putting this out closer to Thursday, the actual event day, but ideas I wanted to share kept popping up, and the WoW posts I… Read more “Sidenote: This Week’s AMD Ryzen Fourth Generation Unveiling and The CPU Landscape”
Tag: CPU
Sidenote: The Upcoming Ryzen 4th Generation Announcement and What I’d Like To See
With the GPU market in a relative mode of stasis until Nvidia finishes releasing the Ampere graphics cards and AMD not set to announce anything, much less… Read more “Sidenote: The Upcoming Ryzen 4th Generation Announcement and What I’d Like To See”
Sidenote (Sort Of): The System Requirements Of Shadowlands
Last week, Blizzard published the system requirements listed on the box for Shadowlands. For long-time PC gamers, the system requirements labeling on a game is equally an… Read more “Sidenote (Sort Of): The System Requirements Of Shadowlands”
Sidenote: PS4, Xbox One, and AMD – The Dark Decade of Gaming Hardware
This is a post I’ve been thinking about for a while! Through the Sidenote series, something that comes up as a recurring theme of sorts is how… Read more “Sidenote: PS4, Xbox One, and AMD – The Dark Decade of Gaming Hardware”
Sidenote – The Full Xbox Series X Specification Reveal
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the full specs of the Xbox Series X, and with it, a lot of speculation ended but some new speculation began. My goal here… Read more “Sidenote – The Full Xbox Series X Specification Reveal”
My Personal Story of Laptop Ownership, Bridging Into All The Gaming Stuff at CES 2020
On some level, I want to like laptops. I’ve spent a good chunk of my professional life armed with a laptop for work, not always, but once… Read more “My Personal Story of Laptop Ownership, Bridging Into All The Gaming Stuff at CES 2020”
2019 in Gaming Tech – A Recap
2019 was a hell of an exciting year in PC gaming tech. The year saw a lot of new technology, exciting horse races between the dominant players… Read more “2019 in Gaming Tech – A Recap”
Sidenote – The Post-Launch Evaluation of the Ryzen 9 3900X
A few months ago, I wrote a fun story about upgrading my main computer to the new Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core processor. With the time that has… Read more “Sidenote – The Post-Launch Evaluation of the Ryzen 9 3900X”
Sidenote: Computex 2019 and the Ryzen 9 3900X Revealed
Computex 2019 just happened in Taipei, Taiwan, and it is the biggest event for computing all year. While CES often covers some computing tech, the biggest stuff… Read more “Sidenote: Computex 2019 and the Ryzen 9 3900X Revealed”
Sidenote: AMD’s Zen 2 and the Bizarre Lack of Response from Intel
The processor technology war is heating up in a way it hasn’t since the late nineties through early 2000’s, and that is really exciting. My last post… Read more “Sidenote: AMD’s Zen 2 and the Bizarre Lack of Response from Intel”