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It didn't take long for AMD's newly minted Ryzen 7 7700X3D to go on sale. Still, it's good timingas we noted in our review, the chip is walking a tightrope at AMD's $329 MSRP, given that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is not much more...
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If you've been looking longingly at the potent AI capabilities and amazing power efficiency of Intel's Core Series 3 processors and wishing you could have one of those parts on the desktop, then fret no longer, because Minisforum's new...
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Along with the Steam Machine, Valve has also publicly released SteamOS 3.x, which debuted with Steam Deck. With version 3.8, SteamOS can be installed on any modern desktop, laptop, or handheld PC so long as its using an AMD GPU. NVIDIA GPU...
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It flew under the radar a bit, but one of the exciting announcements at Computex was AMD'snew EXPO Ultra Low Latency standard for PC memory. This is, essentially, RAM that has been pre-qualified for operation at high speeds with relatively...
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At Computex 2026, AMD isn't letting up on its recent AI-heavy message, but it threw gamers a bone with a few announcements targeting the crucial performance-sensitive but budget-conscious gamer demographic. There's also an...
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Intel's next-generation desktop platform is apparently going to persist for approximately three and a half full CPU generations if you include the mobile-only Titan Lake. That's just one of the major details released by serial leaker...
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Retro hardware remains hot, with some awesomerecreations of classic systems, and ASUS is looking to ride the wave with a motherboard celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand. The ROG Crosshair 2006 motherboard...
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It probably won't surprise you to hear that AMD might be announcing new products at Computex. What might surprise you is that it's all but confirmed thanks to a slip-up at Biostar PR. The company posted a press release announcing its...
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There is plenty of reason to believe that AMD is getting ready to add a Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor to its lineup, and perhaps the most telling evidence yet is a press release by ASRock that shouts out the not-yet-released chip...
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If you don't have an Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra desktop system, it may be because you opted to skip that generation due to Arrow Lake not showing a big enough gaming performance lift compared to Intel's previous generation chips. Well...
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This story probably won't come as a surprise to anyone who pays attention to desktop APUs, but the news is simple: the new Ryzen AI 400 desktop processors that AMD just launched don't come with a full complement of PCIe lanes. In...
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This year's CES was pretty lean on exciting announcements, at least for enthusiats. Intel's Core Ultra 300 series, the chips codenamed Panther Lake, are pretty cool, but that was really about it. Next year is looking to be a lot more...
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G.Skill has agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it "deceptively advertised and labeled" the speed of its DDR5 and DDR4 desktop memory modules. The settlement allows G.Skill to put the matter to rest without...
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There have been some reports of AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs being roasted in their sockets recently, but motherboard manufacturers like ASRock are working to correct any actual problems. ASRock has the most well-documented incidences of AMD...
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Puget Systems has released its 2025 Hardware Reliability Report: if you're familiar with the company's annual reports, they offer an invaluable look at which components in your build actually survive the rigors of professional...
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Some folks act as if Intel and AMD have killed off the "high-end desktop" or HEDT market, but that's never really been the case. Instead, what happened is that mainstream desktops went from a maximum of four cores to 16 - 24 cores...
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You've probably heard about AMD Ryzen 3D V-Cache ("X3D") CPUs failing in ASRock motherboards, but ASRock is far from the only vendor seeing these failures, and it may not even be the most prominent one. ASUS has now formally...
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There were a number of new products that we expected to hear about at CES, including the much-rumored Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, NVIDIA's N1X SoCs, and the next Intel Arc GPU release. None of those came, but perhaps the most surprising...
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We already reported on the serious slick ROG Xreal R1 gaming glasses yesterday, but ASUS didn't come to CES 2026 with just one big reveal. The company's Republic of Gamers brand rolled out updated Zephyrus laptops with more GPU headroom, a...
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There's a huge emphasis on PC gaming at CES, and that's understandable; gaming is the primary market keeping the PC alive as a platform. Still, people need PCs for both work and play, so MSI is launching a new family of PC products that are designed specifically for multi-tasking, image...
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Ahead of CES 2026, Sapphire is showing off a pair of "PhantomLink" (its equivalent to ASUS' BTF) AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPUs and motherboards. Both will come in white or black colorways and are (for now) China-exclusives.
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The long-awaited "double X3D" CPU, which AMD once denied would ever happen, has finally confirmed its existence with new leaks over at Geekbench and Passmark. We'll cut to the chase: neither benchmark result is particularly interesting, as...
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