PC Perspective

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Ryan Shrout

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Owner, Operator, Editor-in-Chief

Location

Florence, KY, USA

Bio

Ryan started PC Perspective in 2004 and before that ran hardware review websites by the name of Amdmb.com and Athlonmb.com.  Besides taking care of the day to day operations of the pcper.com, managing content and producing a podcast, he also hosts This Week in Computer Hardware on the This Week in Tech network with Patrick Norton.  

You can find Ryan mostly on PC Perspective, but also in a few key places:

• Email: rshrout@pcper.com
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/ryanshrout
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• Facebook: http://facebook.com/pcper
• YouTube: http://youtube.com/pcper

History

Member for

4 years 37 weeks

Recent Posts

Recent Posts

Pricing and Testing Process

05/22/2013 - 18:45

[inline:files/review/2013-05-22/gpuz.png] As you might have seen on the first page, the new GeForce GTX 780 3GB will retail starting at $649.  I will discuss the implications of this pricing structure on our last page, but let's quickly see the...

Getting Away from the Cores

05/22/2013 - 10:10

The Northbridge is just as important as ever, and the improvements are designed to help fully utilize the memory controller with both CPU and GPU accesses.  The northbridge contains the SRI (System Request Interface), the Crossbar, the Link...

Battery Life and Conclusions

05/21/2013 - 23:15

Battery and Power Consumption Maybe more important than just performance is the need for power efficiency with the Kabini platform.  To test that I ran our in-house battery test that does web browsing over WiFi and logs time stamps along the way....

PCMark7 and 3DMark (2013)

05/21/2013 - 22:47

PCMark 7 PCMark 7 includes 7 PC tests for Windows 7, combining more than 25 individual workloads covering storage, computation, image and video manipulation, web browsing and gaming. Specifically designed to cover the full range of PC hardware from...

Compression and Encryption

05/21/2013 - 22:43

7-Zip Compression I decided to replace the WinRAR test with a more repeatable and threaded application – 7-Zip.

Rendering and Scientific

05/21/2013 - 22:41

CineBench 11.5 This rendering benchmark based off of the Cinema 4D engine is a terrific indicator for multi-threaded processing.

Media Encoding Tests

05/21/2013 - 22:39

Handbrake Known mainly for its DVD re-encoding prowess, our test uses the Handbrake command line interface on a full DVD rip to gauge CPU performance.

Testing Setup and SiSoft Sandra

05/21/2013 - 22:37

While testing Kabini and the A4-5000 was not a difficult task, find a handful of "good" comparisons turned out to be for me.  Keeping in mind the segments of the market that AMD is targeting with this particular APU, the A4-5000 doesn'...

2013 Elite Performance APU - Richland

05/21/2013 - 17:42

[inline:files/review/2013-05-21/richland01_0.jpg] Our final new platform being launched today is Richland, the Elite Performance platform.  Richland is very much a revised version of Trinity but with some new platform options that AMD is throwing...

2013 Mainstream APU - Kabini

05/21/2013 - 17:36

In many ways, Kabini and Temash are very much the same product.  Both are based on the Jaguar x86 cores and the 128 SIMD unit Radeon GCN graphics architecture.  In fact, both use the same die! [inline:files/review/2013-05-21/kabini01_0.jpg]

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