Chris' gaming experiences go back to the mid-nineties when he conned his parents into buying an 'educational PC' that was conveniently overpowered to play Doom and Tie Fighter. He developed a love of extreme overclocking that destroyed his savings despite the cheaper hardware on offer via his job at a PC store.
AMD's Ryzen 9000-series processors are out and about. In general, the family's power efficiency is a highlight, and they've rightfully taken some places on our list of, but there are those out there that wish for a little more on the performance side of things.
MSI didn't release single threaded or gaming results, but since such workloads typically don't continually demand full power like a longer term multithreaded workload does, performance gains are sure to be smaller. Finally, MSI is introducing memory timing presets, which should be useful for those looking to eke out a little more from their memory. I can see this being useful for those running DDR5-7000+ kits in the 6000 MT/s range, where enabling the tighter presets will get you a little bit of a latency improvement. This will benefit gaming, even if it's not by a lot.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
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