Time flies Time flies, like a blink of an eye, written in history in 2017, slowly came to our side in 2018. Time is so heartless, as if to take away everything, but review the past 365 days and nights There is always too much memory is hard to erase.
In 2017, both the PC hardware industry and the mobile digital industry have undergone tremendous changes, resulting in innumerable excellent technologies and products worthy of historical remembrance.
To be sure, the PC industry has already passed its peak period, no longer occupy the core position, but we are pleased to see the PC hardware in 2017 re-energized, both manufacturers and users of the passion have been re-mobilized, of course There is no lack of frustration brought by a variety of price increases out of stock.
The smart phone industry after years of rapid development, has also come to a historic crossroads.As the global market is becoming saturated, with the difficulty of technological innovation increases, the major brands are experiencing a period of pain.
Here, we review the outstanding products and technologies in all fields in 2017 by way of awards, including nine desktop processors, graphics cards, chipset motherboards, memory, hard drives, peripherals, notebooks, smartphones, and mobile handsets Different aspects, at the same time in accordance with established practice, set up a flagship performance award, technology innovation award, the most attention award, the most cost-effective award, editor of choice award five awards.
Of course, there are a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand audiences. There is never a fixed standard for such a thing, and it is never possible to satisfy everyone.
We are only in such a form, initiate, and we review the passion of 2017, looking forward to the hopeful 2018. If you have better ideas, but also welcome to communicate with us in the comments.
'Fast Technology 2017 Desktop Processor Awards'
A decade ago, the desktop CPU processor market has never been such a bustling Intel Core Duojiang country, AMD bulldozers can not afford to sink, the entire market over the past decade placid, especially in recent years can only watch Intel unscrupulously Squeeze toothpaste.
Fortunately, AMD has finally come back, the newly designed Zen architecture can be said beyond all expectations (not almost), even AMD itself did not expect to get so high, from the desktop to the data center and then to the notebook flowering across the board, Intel Have to rush to start the spirits, began running all the way.
So competitive, very lucky!
Flagship Performance Award: Intel Core i9-7980XE
Intel HEDT fever-class platform has been synonymous with flagship performance, but a few years ago, the lack of competitiveness, Intel is too lazy to substantially upgrade until this year AMD Ryzen severely stimulated a generation of enhancements over several previous Generation, the top flagship Core i9-7980XE even suddenly pushed to 18 core 36 threads, abnormal horror performance, and finally resorted to the legendary Core i9 series .16000 yuan price seems out of reach, but you know last year The price can only buy 10 core yet.
Flagship Performance Award: AMD Ryzen ThreadRipper 1950X
Intel so progressive, I have to thank AMD, not only in the mainstream market Ryzen kill all quarters, but also after years of return to the area of fever level, 'thread tear' majestic Ryzen ThreadRipper 1950 although less than the Core i9-7980XE 2 A core 4 threads, but the overall performance is still very prominent, not too downfall, but also more extensive PCI-E 3.0 expansion space, the key is 'cheap', and now only 7999 yuan.
Most Attention Award: AMD Ryzen APU
AMD Ryzen this year, sweeping the high school low-end market, rekindled DIYer's passion, but it does not own the integrated GPU, for those who seek cost-effective, game performance without the requirements of the players, the new technology, Ryzen + Vega new dual architecture A generation of APU is worth the wait for the dream of, and after a long wait, Ryzen APU has been unveiled on the mobile side, the first half of next year will be full-blown, and from the current signs that the new APU regardless of performance or power Consumption have a qualitative leap, perhaps AMD can take this re-share in the notebook market.
It is noteworthy that, AMD, Intel, the old friends are also rare come together, AMD contributed their own custom version of the Vega GPU core, integrated in the Intel processor, so how to coordinate their APU rivals competing products, it is also A challenge in front of AMD.
Most attention award: Intel Core i7-8700K
Core i7-8700K as the representative of the eight generations of the advent of the core, the biggest significance than the mainstream market for many years of continuous quad-core + dual-core combination, and finally fully upgraded to six-core + quad-core, or even mobile, thin laptop into the six-core Era, and the overall power consumption are controlled at the same level in the future with the more advanced 10nm, more core, higher frequency is not a dream. Coupled with a dozen more fever-core, we finally entered the true multi-core era .
Technology Innovation Award: AMD Zen Architecture
AMD CPU is worthy of the perfect performance this year, the word of warning in the bulldozer, almost everyone is not optimistic about the case, AMD actually really counter-attack, as if myths come true, I am afraid AMD did not think of themselves, After all, Zen architecture was originally set to target the theoretical performance of the IPC to enhance 40%, the results actually did 52%!
Even more impressive is the performance chasing Intel at the same time, AMD this time without regrettable, maintained its own tradition of high cost performance, regardless of the mainstream Ryzen, fever ThreadRipper, or data center EPYC, the price is very close to the people , With the words of users is directly to Intel sat in the tube of toothpaste.
However, we must calmly see that AMD's market volume is too small, completely unaffected, the future is long, Intel's strong technical strength is beyond doubt, but in any case, with the competition, will be more exciting .
Most cost-effective award: Intel Pentium G4560
Pentium has always been the pursuit of the ultimate cost-effective user's favorite, the latest eight generations of Core family of Pentium G4560 is called a generation of God U: 14nm process, support for Hyper-Threading, comes with a new nuclear display, support for DDR4-2400 memory, 54W thermal design power , While the price as long as 500 yuan, with a cheaper B150 / B250 motherboard, home office is perfect.
Most cost-effective award: AMD Ryzen 5 1400
It can be said, AMD Ryzen full range of products are quite prominent cost-effective alternative space is very large, which directly suppress the Pentium should be Ryzen 3 series, but cut down the multi-threaded support, although the four-core four-thread enough to meet the general application, Adding two or three hundred dollars will be able to get four-core eight-thread case, Ryzen 5 series is undoubtedly more attractive, especially the Ryzen 5 1400 as long as a thousand dollars, but also free overclocking, eating chicken is also a weapon.
Editor's Choice Award: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X / 1600
For the high-end users / players who pursue quality and high performance, there may be a blessing of worry when choosing a CPU processor this year because of unprecedented product richness. Here we recommend the Ryzen 5 1600X / 1600, the price of both In 1500-1800 yuan, are 6 core 12 threads, the difference is that the former frequency is higher, accelerate more, of course, the power consumption is slightly higher, you can see your needs choice.
Editor's Choice Award: Intel Core i5-8400
Intel Core i5-8400 was the corresponding price, came to 6 core 6 threads, although not overclocking, but good enough Intel architecture itself is good enough, both single-threaded or multi-threaded have played very well. Unfortunately, only the motherboard Z370 optional.
