AMD's Ryzen launches March 2, outperforming Intel's Core i7 at a fraction of the price

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Best of PCWorld Feb 24, 2017 AMD's Ryzen launches March 2, outperforming Intel's Core i7 at a fraction of the price With an aggressive mix of price and performance, AMD's Ryzen will charge into the high-end PC processor space next week. Analysts say Intel may be forced onto the defensive. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • AMD Ryzen benchmark preview: Ryzen 7 outperforms Intel's best • Why AMD had to change the Zen name to Ryzen for its new chip architecture • Radeon Vega logo, graphics card design revealed at AMD's Ryzen event • Mass Effect: Andromeda hands-on preview: A new space opera built on old ideas • Ubuntu Touch finds a home on a conflict-free, fair-trade, user-maintainable handset • 6 gotta-know Spotify tips for Android and iOS • Razer Blade Pro (2016) review: Now this is how you do a 'Pro' laptop • 4 ways to block political posts on Facebook • 35 great PC games for Linux and Steam Machines • The secret upgrade: How expansion chips in video game cartridges pushed performance • 10 influential game mods that truly changed PC gaming White Paper: Cisco Buyer's Guide: 10 things to look for in a Secure Internet Gateway As networks become more decentralized and users connect directly to SaaS applications, security must also shift to the cloud. A new category of products is emerging to address these changes, the Secure Internet Gateway (SIG). Read More ▶ AMD Ryzen benchmark preview: Ryzen 7 outperforms Intel's best Everyone wants to know how AMD's Ryzen compares to Intel's Kaby Lake. AMD showed benchmarks indicating the new chip will be every bit as impressive as the hype says it is. Read More ▶ Why AMD had to change the Zen name to Ryzen for its new chip architecture AMD changed its Zen chip architecture's name to Ryzen to provide a defensible trademark, crossing a space probe with Japanese Buddhist calligraphy. Read More ▶ Radeon Vega logo, graphics card design revealed at AMD's Ryzen event AMD's Ryzen tech event was all about CPUs, but we learned more about Radeon Vega graphics cards, too. Read More ▶ Mass Effect: Andromeda hands-on preview: A new space opera built on old ideas How much of Mass Effect: Andromeda will be spent tooling around in a glorified dune buggy? We're not sure yet, but it definitely seems like quite a bit. Hopefully it's interesting. Read More ▶ Ubuntu Touch finds a home on a conflict-free, fair-trade, user-maintainable handset UBports will show off Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 2 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Read More ▶ 6 gotta-know Spotify tips for Android and iOS Save Spotify radio stations for offline listening, snip out the gaps between songs, keep the music playing when your playlist runs out, and more. Read More ▶ Razer Blade Pro (2016) review: Now this is how you do a 'Pro' laptop For the first time in years, the Razer Blade Pro feels like it deserves the name. Packed with an i7-6700HQ and a GTX 1080, there's a lot of power in this slim, 17-inch laptop. Read More ▶ 4 ways to block political posts on Facebook Maybe you've made a political post or two (or more) on Facebook, or maybe you're trying to hide from them. Here's how to silence the noise. Read More ▶ 35 great PC games for Linux and Steam Machines The arrival of Steam has lured hordes of big-name games to Linux PCs. Here are some of the best Linux PC games you can play today. Read More ▶ The secret upgrade: How expansion chips in video game cartridges pushed performance In the early days of game consoles, developers frustrated by the limitations of primitive hardware quietly built chips into the game cartridges themselves. Read More ▶ 10 influential game mods that truly changed PC gaming These legendary total conversion mods completely overhauled their games—and some changed all of PC gaming forever. Read More ▶ White Paper: Cisco Cisco Umbrella at a glance. Today, more and more is happening off-network. More roaming users. More corporate-owned laptops accessing the internet from other networks. More cloud apps, mean that users don't need to be on the corporate network to get work done. And more branch offices connecting directly to the internet. Read More ▶

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