Back in 2017, AMD shook up the desktop market by bringing 8 cores and 16 threads to the mainstream and decimated Intel’s then-current 7th generation (Kaby Lake) and it’s 4 cores when it came to multitasking. Sure, Intel did have the clock frequency advantage, but if you were doing anything more than gaming, Ryzen.

For power users building looking to put together HEDT rigs, memory is often king, particularly those video editors or content creators. Sure, you need lots of processor threads, but for editing high definition video content, running lots of Virtual Machines, or 3d modeling, RAM quickly becomes the limiting factor. Crucial by Micron have thrown.

The AMD rumor mill has been busy of late, but not quite as busy as AMD themselves. The company are planning to enter 2017 with a bang, fully replacing its processor lineup with Zen and readying to release Vega, which is the follow up to their highly successful Polaris range of graphics cards. But.