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About Thomas Ryan

Thomas Ryan is based in Seattle, Washington. Thomas first began to appreciate the wonders of the semiconductor industry while doing research on his previous favorite hobby, PC gaming. Having co- purchased his first computer at the ripe old age of 11, with $150 and the help of Craigslist he's been buying and building computers ever since.
Intel Xeon Phi Logo
Thomas Ryan
Feb 4, 2013

A Little Known Documentary on Xeon Phi

Ah, the wonders of Youtube...

Back in November Intel published a surprisingly good documentary on the development of its Xeon Phi chip.
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Intel - logo
Thomas Ryan
Jan 18, 2013

Gaming on Intel’s Atom Z2670

Err... At least we tried to game on it.

After hearing about the variety of “gaming” tablets on hand at CES this year, like the Razor Edge and Vizio’s Z-60 based tablet, we decided to dust off the Clovertrail based Iconia W510 that we looked at back in December.
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AMD - logo
Thomas Ryan
Jan 8, 2013

AMD’s CES 2013 Press Conference

Richland, Kabini, and Temash...

The keynotes that we’ve seen so far at CES have been pretty lame. Our own Leo Yim characterized last nights Nvidia press conference as a, “heynote”.
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2012 Microsoft Logo
Thomas Ryan
Dec 28, 2012

Living with Microsoft’s Surface RT

A Tale of Mixed Impressions

At the end of last week Nvidia released a blog by Brian Burke that chronicled his use of the Nvidia powered Surface RT on a business trip.
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CodeXL Banner
Thomas Ryan
Dec 21, 2012

AMD Publicly Releases CodeXL 1.0

No more betas...

On December 4th, AMD released CodeXL to the general public after a public beta period.
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acer_logo
Thomas Ryan
Dec 18, 2012

Acer’s Iconia W510: Taking a Look

An overbuilt netbook...

With the launch of Windows 8 a slew of new tablets hit the market and the W510 was no exception.
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Intel - logo
Thomas Ryan
Dec 17, 2012

Atom Versus Tegra 3 In Windows 8 Tablets

x86 Versus ARM in a Battleroyal...

One of the questions we’ve been dying to answer the past few years is who will win in the matchup between x86 and ARM.
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AMD FX CPU logo
Thomas Ryan
Nov 20, 2012

Overclocking AMD’s FX-8350

Stock versus aftermarket...

When we reviewed AMD’s FX-8350 we weren’t able to find the time to really explore it’s overclocking capabilities.
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AMD ASeriesFAMILY Logo
Thomas Ryan
Nov 12, 2012

Laptop versus Desktop: AMD’s A10 APUs

What does going mobile cost you?

One of the first questions that crossed our minds was, how much slower is a 35 Watt chip than a 100 Watt chip.
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30 Watt Logo
Thomas Ryan
Nov 6, 2012

30 Watt Introduces The GAMEMAXX!!1!

Perfect for kids and adults of all ages!

Yesterday a new gag gift was borne on to this world by a small Minneapolis based company named 30 Watt.
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AMD FX CPU logo
Thomas Ryan
Nov 5, 2012

AMD’s Bulldozer core compared with Piledriver

Core vs core vs the promised numbers

Fortunately for AMD, after reviewing both the Piledriver based A10-5800K and the Piledriver infused FX-8350 over the past few months, I can safely say that Piledriver is faster than Bulldozer.
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AMD FX CPU logo
Thomas Ryan
Oct 22, 2012
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AMD’s Second Generation FX Processor: Vishera

Zambezi - Bulldozer + Piledriver = Vishera

About this time last year AMD released a video of it’s first generation FX processors setting a world record as the highest overclocking CPUs in existence.
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AMD ASeriesFAMILY Logo
Thomas Ryan
Oct 1, 2012
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AMD’s Trinity Faces Off With Intel’s Ivy Bridge

The mainstream battle royal...

Today we’re aiming to find out if the CPU’s side of Trinity can keep pace with Intel’s Ivy Bridge.
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2012 Microsoft Logo
Thomas Ryan
Sep 26, 2012

New Windows 8 Compatible Logo Spotted

It's even more compatible than ever before!

One of the more interesting thing we saw, was a new little logo from our friends in Redmond.
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AMD - logo
Thomas Ryan
Sep 26, 2012

AMD Performance Edition Memory Review

AMD is AMPing things up...

And with the memory bandwidth dependence of its APU products, there was more reason than ever for AMD to enter the desktop memory market and provide high speed solutions.
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