AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?
by Dr. Ian Cutress on May 18, 2020 9:00 AM ESTGaming: Strange Brigade (DX12, Vulkan)
Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her. Gameplay is cooperative centric with a wide variety of different levels and many puzzles which need solving by the British colonial Secret Service agents sent to put an end to her reign of barbaric and brutality.
The game supports both the DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs and houses its own built-in benchmark which offers various options up for customization including textures, anti-aliasing, reflections, draw distance and even allows users to enable or disable motion blur, ambient occlusion and tessellation among others. AMD has boasted previously that Strange Brigade is part of its Vulkan API implementation offering scalability for AMD multi-graphics card configurations.
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By our low settings, there is barely any differentiation between CPUs.
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flyingpants265 - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
Haha, I knew somebody would would be slow enough to say that.Spunjji - Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - link
Why are so many people who make terrible points under the impression that it's their critics who are slow?dromoxen - Thursday, May 28, 2020 - link
perhaps the slow one is the Flying trousers .. You have already paid out 100 so to upgrade you would need to spend an extra 290 cadshabby - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
I paid 10k for a used corvette, who in their right mind would pay 60k for a new one...flyingpants265 - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
I guess nobody, if the only advantage is a 15% performance increase. Thanks for proving my point!Spunjji - Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - link
😴lmcd - Wednesday, May 27, 2020 - link
Someone had to buy the original for there to be a used oneIf no one buys the original, there will be no used ones for you to buy
dudedud - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
Why does the ryzen 3 3300X scores so high in DigiCortex even with half the cores of the 3700X?Or is a typo?
GreenReaper - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
Probably because the interaction between the cores matters, and the 3700X has cores on two separate complexes.silverblue - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
I got a 3600 recently, and it works fine on my Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3, a B350 board from mid-2017. It does occasionally peak up to about 4.15GHz as far as I can tell from Ryzen Master, which is in no doubt helped by reusing my 1600's v1 Spire, along with MX-4 paste, in place of the packaged Stealth. Folding can still push temperatures up pretty high, especially if handling CPU and GPU work orders at the same time; partly thanks to having a Sapphire Nitro+ RX 590, CPU temperatures were spiking to the low 90s Celsius, but a combination of two new Corsair ML120 case fans (twice as effective as the Aerocool intake fan/ancient Akasa exhaust fan combo I had before) plus some slightly tweaked fan profiles knocked this down nearly ten degrees, along with boosting CPU folding speed a little. It's a great CPU, though I wish I had more than an RX 590 to go along with it.