Yup you read that right, my mining setup gave me a peak of almost 1300 H/s with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X! That’s right, and this is on stock settings. Download Software Here : XMR-STAK-CPU Download : Here My 1200+ H/s config file : Here Monero (XMR) Mining Pool : https://xmr.nanopool.org/ Electroneum (ETN) Mining Pool […]

Finally got my rig to mine Monero properly, and the result is better than what I expected! AMD’s presentation deck claims 549H/s but with some fine tuning my stock Ryzen 7 1800X did 610H/s (peak) – w00t! Download Software Here : XMR-STAK-CPU Download : https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-cpu/releases/tag/v1.3.0-1.5.0 My 610H/s config file : https://www.dropbox.com/s/di3e5qwb21jb141/config.txt Monero (XMR) Mining Pool […]

Getting the AMD Ryzen Threadripper up and running isn’t as straight forward as one might think. Unlike most processors that are secured with the press of a handle, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper requires one to go through lengthy steps to get it secured. Don’t worry about it though, you won’t be swapping around processors often, […]

And so I’m unboxing the AMD Ryzen Threadripper Reviewer Kit and I can tell you that it’s one amazing packaging alright. Within the package are 2 Ryzen Threadripper processors which are the 1920X and 1950X.

The Titan X was announced today as the new performance king for Nvidia’s line-up of GeForce GPU. The Titan X micro-site claims that it is “up to 3X faster performance for GeForce GTX 10 Series when compared to the GTX 900 Series” but it’s not specific on which 900 series GPU is the reference. Below […]

As with the title, this is a very short article to inform you of AMD’s latest naming convention for their RX series graphics card. One thing I wish to highlight is that you should lower your expectation. For example AMD’s Fury X (and the green camp’s GTX 980 Ti, GTX 1070 and GTX 1080) could […]

Pretty ladies on ground at Computex 2016 halls, I hope you enjoy viewing them. Yes, goldfries is a tech site and yes, I will be producing tech content but for the mean time – just chill and enjoy this random off-topic bit. 😉 After all it is still part of Computex, I’ll add more photos […]

As you all know the GeForce GTX 1080 was announced today and the world (mostly gamers) are all excited about this new offering that costs less than a GTX 980 Ti and performs faster, and some even claimed that it’s 2x faster than the Titan X! *image taken from videocardz Well, that’s true but only […]