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AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The latest bundle offer essentially covers all of AMD's existing mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, sans the to-be-launched Ryzen 9000 series. That includes not only AMD's desktop parts, such as the Ryzen 9 7800X3D, but also virtually their entire stack of Radeon RX 7000 video cards, right on down to the 7600 XT. AMD's laptop...
AMD’s GTX 560 Ti Counter-Offensive: Radeon HD 6950 1GB & XFX’s Radeon HD 6870 Black Edition
Today was originally supposed to be about the newly released GeForce GTX 560 Ti – NVIDIA’s new GF114-based $250 video card. Much as was the case with the launch...
111 by Ryan Smith on 1/25/2011HP Envy 17: HP's MacBook Pro Killer?
You demanded them, we listened, and finally some fruit fell from HP's tree. We have an Envy 14 in house getting tested right now, and today we bring you...
85 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/16/2010AMD's Radeon HD 6970 & Radeon HD 6950: Paving The Future For AMD
In 2009 AMD launched the highly successful Radeon HD 5800 series to great fanfare and even greater shortages. With a 6 month lead on NVIDIA, AMD had the high-end...
168 by Ryan Smith on 12/15/2010ASUS X72D/K72DR: Three Cores, No Waiting
Up to this point, our experiences with AMD's Phenom II mobile line haven't been very favorable. In the desktop world AMD's chips can compete and succeed based on price...
38 by Dustin Sklavos on 10/25/2010AMD’s Radeon HD 6870 & 6850: Renewing Competition in the Mid-Range Market
All things considered, the Radeon HD 5000 series has gone very well for AMD. When they launched it just over a year ago, they beat NVIDIA to the punch...
205 by Ryan Smith on 10/21/2010New Acer Aspire TimelineX Laptops
Acer is launching a series of new notebooks in their Aspire TimelineX range boasting mobile form factors, Intel Arrandale processors, and up to 8 hours of battery life. These...
44 by Balraj Sandhu on 9/27/2010Toshiba Satellite A660D-ST2G01: AMD's Quad-Core Phenom II P920 Joins the Mobile Party
We've looked at AMD's slightly older Tigris platform in the form of their M300 and M600 processors. While performance of those parts was better than previous AMD designs, Intel...
33 by Jarred Walton on 8/31/2010Farewell to ATI, AMD to Retire the ATI Brand Later this Year
Four years ago AMD did the unthinkable: it announced the 5.4 billion dollar acquisition of ATI in a combination of cash and stock. What followed was a handful of...
84 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/30/2010Dell Studio 17: When Gaming Isn't Enough
Usually when we get to the 17"-class notebooks here, we're dealing with machines designed almost exclusively for gaming. The problem is that these machines also tend to be prohibitively...
41 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/26/2010Quick Look: PowerColor’s Radeon HD 5770 PCS+ Vortex Edition
With the recent rise in the number of triple-slot cards, we have a few different cards in-house that we’re going to be looking at over the next few weeks...
28 by Ryan Smith on 8/25/2010Dell Studio 14: Defining Solid
With the back to school season in full swing now, manufacturers are all competing for a slice of a particularly delicious pie: college students. This is a group of...
53 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/19/2010Good From the Factory? The Dell Studio XPS 7100
The tricked-out Dell Studio XPS 7100 is an interesting beast. It lacks any overclocking extras and exotic cooling, but it comes priced to move. Packing AMD's latest hex-core Phenom...
69 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/7/2010MSI GX640: $1100 for a Speedy DX11 Laptop
Finding a reasonable gaming laptop without spending a ton of money can be difficult; finding one with DX11 support and high quality components for $1100? That's just being greedy...
28 by Jarred Walton on 6/13/2010ASUS G73Jh: Today's Top Gaming Laptop
ASUS has made it a goal to increase their retail presence in the mobile market. With their successful Eee PC and UL series, they cover the netbook and entry-level...
72 by Jarred Walton on 4/17/2010Acer Aspire AS5740G-6979: Budget Priced but Great Gaming
In recent years, Acer has been doing an admirable job of condensing respectable hardware into affordable machines. Each successive generation, Acer has usually had one or two solid notebooks...
31 by Dustin Sklavos on 4/2/2010