AMD’s Ryzen Launches March 2
February 22nd, 2017My nine year old son has watched me build a few high end PCs and he wants to build his own so badly that he can practically taste it.
For months, I’ve been saying, “Wait for Ryzen, you must, young Padawon.”
After many years, AMD will again be offering strong alternatives to Intel’s CPUs. Ryzen 7 are the high end chips. Midrange Ryzen 5 and low end Ryzen 3 will be released later.
I haven’t built a PC based on an AMD CPU since around 2002. I’m looking forward to Intel having to compete again.
Via: PC World:
Ryzen is here. AMD said Wednesday that it plans a “hard launch” of its first three Ryzen processors on March 2. The highly anticipated chips promise to outperform high-end parts from Intel and undercut their prices by as much as 54 percent.
AMD executives confidently unveiled the first three desktop chips to attack Intel’s Core i7, supported by several top-tier motherboard vendors and boutique system builders. In many cases, executives said, AMD will offer more for less, as early Ryzen benchmarks prove. The top-tier Ryzen 7 1800X will cost less than half of what Intel’s thousand-dollar Core i7-6900K chip does—and outperform it, too. You can preorder Ryzen chips and systems from 180 retailers and system integrators today.
