I won’t lie, when AMD’s new 16-core monster CPU, the Ryzen Threadripper 2950X, arrived, I ran around the office showing off it and its accompanying air cooler to anyone who would make eye contact with me. The thing is enormous—easily twice as large as a standard desktop CPU from Intel.

The air cooler, saddled with the goofy name Wraith Ripper and festooned with LED lighting, is larger than most power supplies, and if dropped, it could do damage to floors, feet, and small woodland creatures. Even people who know nothing about computers were suitably impressed by these enormous pieces of PC. Then they’d ask how much the Threadripper 2950X cost.

And that’s where I’d lose them.

There are some of us who can make practical use of more cores in their daily workflow. Like 32 cores, to be precise.

With both the Xbox One and PS4 packing GCN-based hardware, it's fair to say AMD has the high-end console market covered. So, it's no surprise Zhongshan Subor, a China-based electronics company, wants AMD in its own console, the "SUBOR", which it plans to release by the end of the year.

There are few gambles in the tech world as big as spending billions to build a new computer processor from scratch. Former AMD board member Robert Palmer supposedly compared it to Russian roulette: "You put a gun to your head, pull the trigger, and find out four years later if you blew your brains out."

Six years ago AMD loaded the gun and pulled the trigger, dramatically restructuring itself internally in a mad bid to escape a disaster of its own making. Now we've seen the results and, instead of dying, AMD has a savvy new CPU microarchitecture, Zen, that's the foundation of the shockingly good new series of Ryzen processors. They're so good, in fact, that they could pose a real challenge to Intel's incumbent dominance and change what the computer market looks for the next few years.

AMD has announced the desktop line-up of its 2nd generation Ryzen processors. Today, the company released details for four chips, ranging from the high-end 2700X (specs for which were leaked earlier this week), to the more budget-friendly 2600.

Embargoes haven't officially lifted on the next batch of Ryzen desktop CPUs, but as is always the case, that doesn't mean some cheeky bugger on the internet hasn't got their hands on the new silicon early.

If you've been holding out on a CPU upgrade, good news: AMD's entire Ryzen line just got a haircut across the board just ahead of Black Friday.

It's been a good year for PC tech, and an especially good year for AMD's desktop CPUs. But while Ryzen has picked up plenty of steam, we're yet to see any competition from AMD in gaming laptops as of yet. Fortunately, they're coming.

If you've recently built an AMD system and it happens to be based off a Gigabyte motherboard, you might want to consider updating your BIOS post-haste.

To celebrate the release of Fractal Designs’ Define C-Window case and AMD Ryzen, mWave has built "The Silent Beast" -- and they are giving you a chance to win it!

"Competition is good", says AMD. Competition brings out the best in people and in companies. After years of Intel wiping the floor with it in processor sales, AMD says it's back, and it has the numbers to prove it.

NVIDIA has pushed out the GTX 1080 Ti and lately we've seen the launch of the RX 500 series cards.

But it's really AMD's Vega GPUs that people have been holding out for. Earlier this morning the company confirmed it would start shipping the first Vega GPUs - although not the consumer cards people are expecting - from the end of next month - and as an added bonus, there's a new 16 core CPU to boot.

It's not often that the CPU market has any degree of disruption. And that was the logic behind the launch of AMD's Ryzen CPUs, with the chip manufacturer aiming to offer more performance by selling CPUs with more cores and threads than their Intel counterparts for less money.

But as Australians well know, what represents good value overseas often represents something else entirely once the Australia Tax is applied. And just how good is the performance, anyway?

The official embargo on the Ryzen 5 series of CPUs isn't supposed to lift for another week. But that hasn't stopped one YouTuber from (somehow) getting his hands on a Ryzen 5 1400 CPU and publishing his results for the world to see.

Benchmarking new hardware is part of the fun. But when that hardware happens to be a brand new CPU, which isn't from the same family of CPUs that have enjoyed years and years of optimisations and familiarity with developers and operating systems, things can get tricky.

Following weeks of questions, reviews, re-reviews and more questions from the community and the media, AMD has come out and cleared out a couple of issues. And one of those: despite what your BIOS and sensor monitors are saying, your Ryzen CPU isn't really running that hot.

A new architecture from a processor vendor is always going to snag the attention of hardware lovers and their magnifying glasses. AMD's Zen, found in its freshly stamped Ryzen line is the current target and amongst all the numbers, testers have discovered something interesting; a discrepancy in the Ryzen's performance and Windows 10. But which party is to blame -- if any?

Everyone is used to companies bragging about how their hardware is better than the competition, and AMD's launch event for Ryzen was no exception. But what you don't see often is a company showing the instances where their hardware doesn't win.

PC enthusiasts, it's a good year so far. Not only do we have a new extreme GeForce GTX 1080 Ti on the way, but AMD is finally bringing the fight back to Intel with its new Ryzen CPUs. Here's everywhere you can put your cash down a few days early to make sure you've got AMD's latest Ryzen chips in your hands as soon as possible.