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AMDhasannouncedplanstofilloutits7nm
3rd-genRyzenCPUrangefurther,withtwo
newquad-coreZen2 CPUsenroute,in the
formoftheRyzen3 3100and3300X.Both
chipswillsupportSimultaneousMultithreading
(SMT),meaningtheycanexecuteeight
concurrentthreadsfromtheirfourcores.Both
chipsalsohavea 65Wthermaldesignpower
(TDP),alongwith16MBofL3cache,2MBofL
cacheand256KBofL1cache.
Thecheapermodelis the3100,whichhasa
3.6GHzbasefr equencyand a 3.9GHzboostPremium gaming chair maker
noblechairs has announced a new
collaboration with Bethesda
Software, with plans to produce
themed chairs based on Bethesda’s
game imagery. The first game series
to get the chair treatment will be
Doom and Fallout, in the second
quarter of this year, with more chairs
based on other game series due to
come later.
The company has shared some
concept art of the Fallout chair,
featuring the iconic blue and yellow
colour scheme, as well as Vault Boy
and the Vault-Tec logos. Meanwhile,
the Doom chair will be based on
military green, and feature the Doom
logo stitched on the headrest, among
other design features. Keep an eye on
noblechairs.com for more details in
the future. In the meantime, we’ve
reviewed the noblechairs ICON Black
Edition on p21.NOBLECHAIRS
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clock, while the 3300X has a 3.8GHz base clock
and boosts to 4.3GHz. Both CPUs are expected
to be released on 21 May, and the 3300X is
listed on scan.co.uk with a price of £115 inc VAT,
with the 3100 coming in at £95 inc VAT.
The new chips will also be accompanied by
the eagerly anticipated B550 chipset, which is
due to turn up in June and offer PCI-E 4 support
for new AM4 CPUs for a much cheaper price
than existing boards based on the X570 chipset.
Look out for reviews of the new CPUs in the
next issue of Custom PC.Crucial has announced two new ranges of M.
NVMe SSDs, which it says aim to ‘give PC and
gaming enthusiasts a full range of powerful
options’. The new P5 series sits at the top, with
respective read and write speeds of 3,400MB/
sec and 3,000MB/sec, and coming in 500GB,
1TB and 2TB capacities and is based on Micron’sTLC 3D NAND flash memory, with an in-house
Micron controller. There will also be a 250GB
version, which drops the sequential write speed
down to 1,400MB/sec.
Meanwhile, the cheaper P2 range comes
in capacities from 250GB to 1TB and is ‘built
for value-conscious customers looking for a
fast, affordable SSD’, with a read speed of up to
2,300MB/sec. The 500GB P2 is available for
£63.59 inc VAT from uk.crucial.com, although
no pricing has been announced for the P
range yet. Both products also use the PCI-E 3
interface, rather than the latest PCI-E 4 interface- the latter has provided a significant speed
boost for some of the latest NVMe drives from
companies such as Corsair and Gigabyte.