PC Specialist Vulcan X 02 review: A seriously high-performance PC

The Vulcan delivers performance we’re not used to at this price, thanks to AMD’s amazing Ryzen chips

AMD’s barnstorming Ryzen processors have proved hugely popular in the world of desktop PCs, and the Vulcan X 02’s core attraction is its Ryzen 5 1600X CPU – nominally a mid-range model, but still a very powerful chunk of silicon. It comes with a base clock speed of 3.6GHz, boosting to 4GHz as load demands, and when AMD’s XFR technology decides that there’s enough room in the “thermal envelope”, you can get an extra 100MHz on top of that. Those are the same speeds as the top-end Ryzen 7 1800X, and the 1600X has the same internal cache configuration too.

The difference is the core count. Where the 1800X features eight physical cores, the 1600X offers “only” six, with AMD’s SMT technology allowing them to handle 12 simultaneous threads. That puts this CPU on par with Intel’s eighth-generation Coffee Lake Core i7 processors when it comes to parallelism, but at a much lower price.
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