Alienware's Area-51 becomes the first pre-built PC with AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
1mon 26d ago by fedia.io/u/ryujin470 in pcgaming from www.xda-developers.com
You can grab one starting today.
I'd wait for Gamers Nexus review, since AMD very interestingly decided to exclude him from the review samples and refused to provide him any advance information at all for possibly political reasons. And I trust Gamers Nexus a lot more than AMD, frankly.
Debauer and Hardware Unboxed have good objective reviews as well
Informative stuff over there on Gamers Nexus. I haven't been keeping up with tech news the last few years and I didn't realize how big of a turd AMD has become. It was inevitable but still disappointing.
Sadly, any two party system always seems to end up turning into "Kang and Kodos" where they're pretending to be two meaningfully different choices when they're basically just slightly different flavors of the same bullshit. That's as true for Nvidia and AMD as it is for anything else. The CEOs of Nvidia and AMD are literally first cousins. That may not mean anything on its own, and frankly it sounds too ridiculous to actually be true, and yet, here we are. The system is rigged, the choices are all fake, and it's not paranoia when they all really are out to get you.
True dat
Turns out AMD seems to have excluded many reviewers from this release. Hardware Unboxed (who provided Gamers Nexus with their sample) uploaded a video today talking about it alongside their review.
That doesn't mean GN isn't being blacklisted, there are many other issues at play there that GN is dealing with in addition to this particular release. But them not getting this particular sample may not be directly related since it seems very few places were sent a sample in general this time.