AMD's Ryzen 7 1800X, Ryzen 7 1700X, and Ryzen 7 1700 CPUs reviewed
 

Way, way back in the fall of 2006, I put together my first PC in my dorm room. I picked out a Core 2 Duo E6400 and a proper motherboard, guided by a friendly-sounding article from some PC hardware site I'd found while Googling around. My elation with that PC—Dual cores! 4GB of memory! A graphics card that can run Half-Life 2! Free Windows Vista!—probably wasn't shared by the AMD boardroom at the time.

The Conroe cores in that E6400 and its friends helped touch off an Intel CPU performance lead that AMD hasn't much challenged since. 2007's Phenom family of chips suffered from a performance-robbing TLB erratum , and the Phenom II series only duked it out with Intel chips from prior generations in its time. Famously, 2011's ambitious Bulldozer architecture trailed Intel's seminal Sandy Bridge CPUs substantially when it launched aboard ...

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