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I Won a $3K Gaming Rig from Maximum PC

Posted 05/15/2013 at 1:15pm | by Josh Norem

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Five questions with the winner of our Maingear/AMD giveaway

Last month we gave away a righteous rig (equipped with a i7-3770K CPU, two AMD Radeon HD 7970s in crossfire, and 8GB ofCorsair Dominator Platinum RAM in a sleek Maingear F131 chassis) courtesy of AMD and Maingear on our Facebook page, and a enthusiastic gentleman named Sean Pisto from Canadia was the lucky recipient of the prize. We asked him to share with us whether or not he thought he was going to win, what his old gaming PC was running, and what it was like to take it out of the box for the first time. The Q&A is posted in the full story!

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AMD Levels Up Never Settle Reloaded Bundle

Posted 05/15/2013 at 9:00am | by Paul Lilly

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You asked, AMD listened.

Two questions AMD tells us it's always getting asked by customers in regards to its sweet Never Settle game bundles are, "Can you add more games?" and "Why do I have to choose between Crysis 3 or Tomb Raider?" Lucky for you, these questions haven't fallen on deaf ears, as AMD is adding bonus games to its Never Settle Reloaded program as part of a limited-time offer.

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AMD Bills New Radeon 8970M as World's Fastest Mobile GPU

Posted 05/14/2013 at 9:01pm | by Paul Lilly

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There's a new mobile sheriff in town.

Mobile gamers rejoice, for AMD hasn't forgotten about you. On the contrary, the Sunnyvale chip designer just unveiled its Radeon 8970M, which AMD claims is the fastest laptop GPU on the entire planet. And not only is it smoking fast, it's also more efficient than previous designs, which means you can expect longer battery life, according to AMD. Hit the jump for more details.

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Sony Claims it Might Actually Make a Quick Profit off the PS4 Thanks to its PC Inspired Design

Posted 05/12/2013 at 7:54pm | by Justin Kerr

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AMD picks up the R&D tab for this generation of consoles.

When the Xbox 360 and PS3 first faced off in the market, both companies took a bath on the hardware. The custom designs pitted two companies with two very different architectures against each other in the market, and consumers really had no way of knowing which was superior. Seven years later the general conscious seems to give Sony the slight nod when it comes to pure console performance potential, but ultimately Microsoft was much better at exposing functionality to developers. PS3 exclusives tended to feature tons of eye candy, but cross platform titles always seemed to work slightly better on the 360. Fast forward to 2013 and both companies appear to be targeting a super charged PC architecture powered by AMD, and as a result, they might actually make money this time.

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Powercolor Slaps a Passive Cooler to Radeon HD 7850 Graphics Card

Posted 05/08/2013 at 11:33am | by Paul Lilly

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Do you hear anything? No? Good!

Looking for a challenge for your next PC build? Try piecing together a quiet system that will hardly let you know it's running without jamming your ear to the side of the case. Not only is it entirely possible to build such a system, but you can build a quiet PC that's still powerful enough to play games, it just takes a little research. One component that could help you along the way is Powercolor's new SCS3 HD7850, a passively cooled Radeon HD 7850 graphics card.

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AMD Launches DDR3-2133 Memory Kit, Takes Aim at Gamers

Posted 05/08/2013 at 8:59am | by Paul Lilly

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New RAM from AMD doesn't shun Intel users.

AMD on Wednesday announced its new Radeon RG2133 Gamer Series Memory and Radeon RAMDisk 4.1 software. According to AMD, it's RG2133 kit is the only memory on the entire planet that offers both XMP and AMP memory profiles in the same package, so no matter which platform you're rolling with -- Intel or AMD -- you can still benefit from AMD's pre-configured overclocking settings.

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AMD Cuts Desktop Processor Pricing Up to 19 Percent

Posted 05/01/2013 at 10:57am | by Paul Lilly

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In with the new, and in with price cuts too!

AMD recently launched a pair of FX-Series Piledriver processors, FX-4350 and FX-6350, and hot on heels of those new chips is a round of price cuts to some older parts. The Sunnyvale chip designer slashed the price of 10 chips in all, most of which received a double-digit percentage discount. In fact, the smallest price cut was 9.5 percent, and the two others that technically don't qualify as double digits were both dropped by 9.9 percent.

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AMD Launches Two New FX-Series Piledriver CPUs

Posted 04/30/2013 at 11:07pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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The FX-4350 and FX-6350 are slightly faster than comparable CPUs already in the lineup

Advanced Micro Devices has added two new SKUs to its FX family of Vishera-based high-end microprocessors. The chipmaker announced the launch of the quad-core FX 4350 and the hexa-core FX-6350 CPUs in a blog post Monday

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Column: Take the Socket Pledge With Me

Posted 04/30/2013 at 4:25pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

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Looking at the future of CPU sockets

The Mainstream tech media declared the PC dead—yet again—and enthusiasts had a full-on freak-out when rumors surfaced thatIntel intended to dump socketed processors within two years. You can read the details of the story here, but let it be known far and wide, Intel will support socketed processors for the “foreseeable future.” AMD, likewise, had already taken the pledge, saying it would be offering socketed CPUs, too.

Note: This column originally appeared in the February 2013 issue of the magazine.

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First Radeon HD 7730 Graphics Card Spotted in the Wild

Posted 04/29/2013 at 8:56am | by Paul Lilly

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MSI's Radeon HD 7730 breaks cover and gets benchmarked.

A rather active user on the Chinese-language forum Coolaler posted several pictures of an MSI Radeon HD 7730 graphics card. As far as we can tell, the entry-level card's model was supposed to have been kept a secret, as identifying information on the retail box was replaced with a red censor strip, but it's tougher to hide such things from software. In addition to the model number, there are also some benchmark numbers to share.

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