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Josh Walrath

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Managing Editor

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Laramie, WY. USA

Bio

Josh started writing about the computer field in 1997, opened his own site in 1999 (Penstarsys.com), and joined PC Perspective in 2008.  He handles a lot of the general tech and some of the deep dives into products such as CPUs and GPUs.  He appears on the PC Perspective Podcast live every Wednesday night at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT.

You can find Josh on PC Perspective as well as:

• Email: jwalrath@pcper.com
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• Twitter: http://twitter.com/JoshDWalrath

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AMD Releases First 5 GHz Processor for Consumers, FX-9590 and FX-9370

06/11/2013 - 11:13

We have all heard the rumors, but it appears to be true.  We had originally heard about a “Centurion” product which would be for extreme overclockers on the AMD side, running at 5 GHz with a 220 watt TDP.  Now we finally get to see...

AMD A10-6800K and A10-6700 Review: Richland Finally Lands

06/05/2013 - 09:10

Richland.  We have been hearing this name for a solid nine months.  Originally Richland was going to be a low end Trinity model that was budget oriented (or at least that was the context we heard it in).  Turns out Richland is something...

Conclusion

06/05/2013 - 01:00

Richland is an evolution of Trinity, but a pretty decent one at that.  It does not cost much more than what Trinity did at the different levels, but it does improve performance and power characteristics across the board.  I was quite happy with...

Power and Overclocking

06/05/2013 - 00:59

Power Power readings were taken at the wall at both idle and load.  Idle included the screen being turned on and showing the windows background, but nothing else was running besides the OS and standard services.  Cinebench 11.5 was used to load...

Results: Skyrim, DiRT 3, and Battlefield 3

06/05/2013 - 00:58

Skyrim This title is CPU bound when using a relatively high end GPU, but is more GPU bound when using an APU.  A manual runthrough was captured with FRAPS.  Settings are put to 1280x960 with Ultra level graphics, 8X AA, and 16X AF.  Ryan...

Results: 3D Mark 2011

06/05/2013 - 00:57

3D Mark 2011 The latest 3D Mark has a nice blend of CPU and GPU bound tests, though it does skew more towards the GPU side.  Still, we see some interesting differences throughout testing.  The Performance preset was used.  The 4670K was...

Results: 3D Mark Vantage

06/05/2013 - 00:56

3D Mark Vantage Though 3DMV is getting a bit old and only supports DX10 rendering, it still is a useful tool to gauge overall CPU performance.  The performance preset is used.  The 4670K refused to run this particular benchmark.  We are...

Results: Valve Particle and Map Compilation Tests

06/05/2013 - 00:55

Valve Particle Test I was unable to get 4670K tests for this particular application, but we can see what performance improvements we can expect from the latest Richland products. [inline:files/review/2013-06-04/valve-particles.png] It seems that this...

Results: Cinebench 11.5 and Euler3D

06/05/2013 - 00:54

Cinebench 11.5 The latest iteration of this rendering test breaks a scene into tiles which are assigned to each core/thread.  Single and multiple threads are utilized to gain results. [inline:files/review/2013-06-04/cinebench11-single.png] [inline:...

Results: 7-Zip and TrueCrypt

06/05/2013 - 00:53

7-Zip This handy compression and extraction program features a built-in benchmark which measures the performance of CPUs using single and multiple threads.  The results of performance in compression and decompression are expressed in MIPS. [inline:...

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