It has been a while since you could build an all AMD system and call it high end, but is it worth going all the way and buying top dollar components like RX 6900 XT to really have good experience? Or maybe something a bit more reasonable is enough? Well, we will find that out and as an added bonus we are making it inside a Mini ITX case from Cooler Master. Before we get into it, I want to acknowledge that getting the latest CPU and graphics cards at a reasonable price current

In this article we will cover overclocking on Ryzen 5000 series chips, more specifically 6 core Ryzen 5 5600X and 16 core Ryzen 9 5950X. Let’s dive right in! Let me just quickly share some results of overclocking on 5600X and 5950X before I go deeper and share with you my methods of how I chose to do it. In Cinebench R20 single core test we got about 6% more performance from Ryzen 5 and lost about 4% performance on Ryzen 9. This is almost a perfect scaling when compared to th