The modules tick at JEDEC-standard DDR4-2666 speeds, at a module voltage of 1.2 Volts. ADATA didn’t disclose timings. The 16 Gb DRAM chips are made by Micron in an advanced (3rd generation) 10 nm-class silicon fabrication process to achieve the desired transistor-density. 32 GB DIMMs are expected to hit critical-mass in 2H-2019/2020, with the advent of AMD’s 3rd generation Ryzen “Matisse,” and Intel’s “Ice Lake-S” desktop processors.

Publication: Tech PowerUp

We’ve used a GIGABYTE motherboard in this configuration. GIGABYTE. MSI and ASUS are the favourites in the hackintosh community for their ease of use, hence, we’ve picked the same. Since Apple machines exclusively use AMD hardware, it’s better to opt for an AMD graphics card if you’re going to be running a hackintosh.

Publication: Digit

PC lead with its 3rd Gen Ryzen processors, which are based on the new Zen 2 core. And it even announced the Radeon RX 5000 series of graphics cards which are set to launch of its the coming months. While we aren’t sure how much me Radeon RX 5000 series will add to AMDs share of the graphics market, it does seem like AMD will do some serious damage to Intel’s CPU market share.

Publication: Digit

This initiative (hiring chip designers) is led by Rajat Bhargava, who was appointed by Google about a year ago. He has also held senior positions in Broadcom and Intel. Major Internet firms such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon, as also Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft are all “accelerating efforts” to design chips for functions significant to them. The tech giants no longer want to depend entirely on “traditional semiconductor specialists” like Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, Nvidia, among others.

Publication: Business Today

As of now. AMD seems to offer better value money but if you insist on Intel, opt for the Intel Core i3-8100 and an H310 motherboard. The 9th Gen Core i3 will be either expensive or it won’t have integrated graphics so you’ll end up paying a lot more to compensate for that

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So until the prices for these two normalise, it wouldn’t be prudent to opt for them. So why not AMD then? As of now, the Ryzen 7 2700X is a very good processor but doesn’t overclock as good as the 8700K. So with a few simple tweaks you can get much better performance across a lot of games hence it makes sense to have the Intel processor over the AMD.

Publication: Digit

You can swap the AMD Ryzen 5 1600X for an Intel 8th Gen Core i5-8400 processor but you will only end up getting slightly better single-threaded performance for a significantly larger price. Getting a 9th Gen processor is completely out of the question since the prices are still ridiculous.

Publication: Digit

There’s no PCIe switch logic involved, so your motherboard is required to support PCIe lane segmentation (most HEDT motherboards since 2016 do). The card supports Intel VROC (virtual RAID on CPU), and is tested to work on AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors. ASUS didn’t change the thermal solution. You still get a chunky aluminium shroud covering the whole card, and lateral-flow fan pushing air across the drives, which can be turned off. The company didn’t reveal pricing.

Publication: Tech PowerUp