HW News: Unlocked RX 460s, Zadak RGB SSD, TSMC Expansion

By Steve Burke Published December 15, 2016 at 11:49 am

Hardware

Hardware news has, somewhat surprisingly, maintained its pace through the late months of the year. We normally expect a slowdown in December, but with AMD’s onslaught of announcements (Instinct, Ryzen, Vega), and with announcements leading into CES, we’ve yet to catch a break.

This week’s hardware news focuses on the RX 460 unlocking discovered by Der8auer, new SSDs from Corsair (MP500) and Zadak, and TSMC’s fab expansion.

Video below:

News Items:

RX 460 unlocking: http://overclocking.guide/amd-radeon-rx-460-unlocking-1024-stream-processors/
Ryzen: http://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/2720-amd-ryzen-zen-cpu-shown-at-horizon
Zadak SSDs: http://zadak511.com
Corsair MP500: http://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/2721-corsair-re-enters-ssd-market-with-mp500-force-nvme
TSMC: http://www.gamersnexus.net/industry/2718-tsmc-moving-toward-5nm-process-with-new-fab

Check back for more component reviews and benchmarks as we continue to steamroll through this next week.

Editorial: Steve “Lelldorianx” Burke
Video: Andrew “ColossalCake” Coleman

Steve Burke

Steve started GamersNexus back when it was just a cool name, and now it's grown into an expansive website with an overwhelming amount of features. He recalls his first difficult decision with GN's direction: "I didn't know whether or not I wanted 'Gamers' to have a possessive apostrophe -- I mean, grammatically it should, but I didn't like it in the name. It was ugly. I also had people who were typing apostrophes into the address bar - sigh. It made sense to just leave it as 'Gamers.'"

First world problems, Steve. First world problems.