Short note: Coffee Lake is live, but not available

Right now the pc-kombo system is gathering prices of Intel’s new Coffee Lake cpus. All models are integrated, and also Z370 boards are in the system. And given the performance of these processors they will be the default choice at many price points, as soon as prices are in the database. However, there is one problem: While vendors may list them with proper prices, the Coffee Lake cpus are basi…

Introducing Hardware Component Pages and the Case Size Visualizer

/blog/upload/nzxt_page_tiny.jpg This update brings specific pages for all hardware known to the recommender. Those component pages hold a bunch of information: The detailed specifications, links to reviews and the manufacturers pr…

RX Vega 64 added

/blog/upload/rx-vega-56.png Almost immediately after Threadripper AMD allowed reviews for their new gpu line, Radeon RX Vega. Again there are two models: The Vega 64 and the Vega 56. Those early reviews paint the picture of …

Threadripper

/blog/upload/threadripper-games.png AMDs latest processor is a monster. The Threadripper 1950X has 16 cores and 32 threads and a turbo clock of 4 GHz. Its smaller brother, the 1920X, still has 12 cores and 24 threads and the same tur…

Introducing the pc-kombo Meta Benchmark

/blog/upload/pckombobenchmark_tiny.png At the core of the recommender lies a benchmark we created. Collecting benchmark results of several publications over a long time, we have enough data to realistically judge the performance of curre…