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CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

AND THERE you have it, one ship-shape 4K gaming PC powered entirely by AMD. We’ve been wanting to do one of these builds for a while now, just to see what the added benefits are in the real world when it comes to AMD’s Smart Access Memory tech.

For those that don’t know, when using AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs (and now 3000-series processors), with a Radeon 6000-series card and appropriate motherboard BIOS (X570 chipset), you can enable Smart Access Memory. This basically gives the processor complete access to the GPU’s VRAM.

Traditionally your processor

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