AMD Ryzen 5 CPUs shipments started in spring, however recently the network saw messages of people, reporting they’d got sudden surprise in the shape of their recently acquired AMD Ryzen 5 1600 and Ryzen 5 1600X processors, possessing eight (instead of six) active cores!



System builders detected this peculiarity at the first boot. Base clock, as it is expected, equals to 3.6 GHz, boost clock – to 4.0 GHz. In the meantime, there are eight cores and sixteen threads in action. One may say, lucky customers purchased 1800X models at a discount. Other buyers were also happy to obtain cheaper Ryzen 5 1600 samples.


All these unlocked processing units are produced during the 36th week of the year 2017 in Malaysia. The place and date of release can be easily defined after looking through the marking decryption instruction.


Performance tests demonstrated, that these purchases are real AMD Ryzen 5 1800X CPUs veiled under another marking. What is the reason for that? Some …

American vendor XFX is about two weeks to release a Radeon 7970 Edition Double Dissipation (model code — FX-797G-TDF). It combines the capabilities of GPU Tahiti XT2 with a higher overclocking potential and the TDP, rather than at Tahiti XT, PCB reference design, but without a single phase power supply (6 +1), and the cooling system in the vaporizing chamber, an array of aluminum fins, PA plate (the same heatsink for the VRM and memory), as well as the two fans standard size 90 mm.



New model will get the recommended for the Radeon HD 7970 GE frequency ratio 1000/6000 MHz for core and chips GDDR5. The graphics chip will operate at 1050 MHz in the load. Recall that the “usual” HD 7970 was limited to regular frequencies 925/5500 MHz and did not support dynamic overclocking.


The configuration of video outputs is almost standard: from the five of DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI and 2x Mini DisplayPort for some reason excluded DVI-D. The additional power is supplied by one 8-pin and one …

The model range of computer cases from be quiet! will soon be replenished with the Dark Base 700 sample. The manufacturer has recently published a video announcement of this product on its official Twitter page, showing that it’s performed in the widespread Mid-Tower form factor and resembles other frameworks of the German vendor, particularly Dark Base Pro 900.



At present the company doesn’t reveal many technical points, however, video gives us enough information. Dark Base 700 can hold ATX motherboards, seven PCI Express expansion cards and one two-slot graphics accelerator, which is mounted vertically with the help of a riser. The covering in the lower part of the framework protects the ATX compatible power supply unit and, presumably, drives.


At the rear be quiet! Dark Base 700 has room for a 120 mm liquid cooling system heatsink with an appropriate fan. The front section of the chassis is expected to have a seat for one 240/280 mm radiator. Other peculiarities …