Vortez have been taking a look at the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X CPU - here's a snippet from their review: [QUOTE]There will be three markets, Ryzen 7 (Prosumer/enthusiast), Ryzen 5 (High Performance) and Ryzen 3 (mainstream). Today we take a look at the flagship 'Summit Ridge' CPU, the Ryzen 7 1800X. It features 4.8 Billion transistors based on Globalfoundaries' 14nm fabrication process using FinFET '3D' Transistor technology. There are 8 'real' cores (as opposed to modules) that features SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading) similar to Intel's Hyperthreading, providing a total of 16 threads of computing power. AMD claimed to have aimed to improve IPC (instructions per clock) by 40% over their previous CPUs, and latest news and press releases revealed that they have smashed that target. Now, we get to find out.[/QUOTE] [ATTACH=full]2312[/ATTACH] Read more [URL='https://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_7_1800x_review,1.html']here[/URL].