SECOND-GENERATION ZEN IS A GAME CHANGER
SUMMER IS OFTEN a quiet time for PC hardware, but this year things are different. We’ve had a slew of important releases hit our test benches all at once, and it could just be that the PC scene will never be the same again after this summer. Serious words, but reasonable when you’re talking about a new PCIe bus that will usher in the promise of incredible storage performance and improved graphics. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, AMD has released a new processor family as well as its much anticipated Navi GPUs this month, and (spoiler alert!) they’re both impressive. Admittedly, it’s the CPUs that really loosened our collective jaws, but thanks to Nvidia also releasing new GPUs, AMD was forced to drop the prices of its first…