AMD's first-gen Ryzen chips continue to sell as budget alternatives to the newer generations and the Ryzen 5 1600/2600 products in particular are very attractive for budget builds. Today we're ...

AMD's Ryzen 5 1600 AF CPU is a strange one. Although it bears the '1600' name, it's not the same chip at all, and is in fact faster than the original Ryzen 5 1600. Because of this, it has remained a ...

Having recently reviewed the Ryzen 5 1600 AF, you should know all there is to know about this nimble CPU. How it performs, where you can buy it, what you need to support it, and so on. In short, it's ...

Despite launching in 2017 and following two successive generations of replacements, AMD has reportedly been maintaining manufacturing capacity for its Ryzen 5 1600 CPU during 2019. Not only that, but ...

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TweakTown may also earn commissions from other affiliate partners at no extra cost to you. AMD's Ryzen 5 1600 is a solid performing 6 core 12 ...

There has been quite a lot of talk about AMD AM4 processors and which motherboards support which generations of chips recently. A couple of weeks ago AMD announced its Ryzen 3 3300X and Ryzen 3 3100 ...

While Ryzen 5 1600X may not have clock speeds as high as the Core i5-7600K’s, it does offer additional cores and virtual cores. We’ve run a battery of benchmarks to see if those cores will make up the ...

Overclocking and tweaking then. Always invest in good hardware by the way (MOBO/PSU/Memory/Cooling), the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a ...

The Ryzen 7 series has certainly stirred things up a bit when it comes to multi-threaded performance, and for the most part, if you're building a rendering, editing, or streaming system that demands ...

One interesting fact about Ryzen 3, 5 and 7 is that a lot of features have been embedded into the actual processor. USB 3.1 for example and two SATA3 ports are coming directly from your Ryzen CPU IO.