We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Intel is most popular CPU makers over the past 30 years, and, in some instances, it's been the only real choice if you want to build your own ...

I can't fathom what AMD was thinking when it gave this CPU a bizarrely inflated $279 price tag when it first launched in 2024, but I'm very glad to see that the price has now plummeted to a much more ...

Bartlett Lake is a real, confirmed CPU family for Intel's LGA 1700 platform. The company confirmed its existence back at CES 2025. However, it's designed by the company's NEX group and aimed at edge ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D should really be worrying Intel. I've just been putting it through its paces for this review, and I'm absolutely blown away by it. There really isn't any desktop CPU work this ...

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the gaming champion, and unlike previous X3D chips, it performs well under all types of workloads. After the launch of the AMD Ryzen 9000 series of CPUs, it was inevitable ...

AMD’s new Ryzen 7 9800X3D is already one of the best processors you can buy. It delivers productivity and gaming gains across the board, though not in equal strides. Despite the improvements AMD made, ...

I ran the same tests on both sides of my dual-boot and one of them embarrassed the other.

I’m not going to even pretend the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a bad CPU. It’s one of the best processors you can buy, and undoubtedly the best processor you can buy for gaming. There are just a couple of ...

Intel's flagship 52-core Nova Lake processor could feature a 474W PL2 power limit.

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Earlier this week, we heard some chatter about a new high-end (200W) 16-core AMD Ryzen 9000 3D V-Cache processor with two banks of cache, one per chiplet - ...