Welcome to another issue of PC Advisor. Last month the big news was Intel’s Kaby Lake, but now it’s AMD’s turn to hog the limelight. The Ryzen 7 processors are finally here, and we’ve exhaustively tested them against Intel’s best to find out whether the claims are true.
You can read the full review on page 54, but without wishing to steal its thunder the verdict is simple: Ryzen is so cheap compared to Intel’s offerings that the choice is a no-brainer. If you’re buying a new PC now, you can get an eight-core Ryzen and a high-end graphics card for the same price as Intel’s eight-core chip. If you get the right motherboard, you can overclock your Ryzen processor for even more performance. We explain how to do this…
