Items tagged with CPUs
A couple of days ago, an old rumor resurfaced and making the rounds claiming Intel would take a page from AMD's playbook and launch "Raptor Lake Next", a new series of processors for the now-venerable LGA 1700 platform. The idea re-emerged...
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A Ryzen 9 7950X3D failure reported by a Taiwanese user is drawing attention after AMD allegedly denied the warranty claim despite the processor still being within its three-year warranty period at the time of failure. The incident first...
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Intel brought along a pile of products to Computex, and while the one that got this writer most excited was the early announcement of the Arc G3 series, the company's data center group has some pretty darn big news, too. Today marks the...
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A German hardware enthusiast and streamer managed to get his mitts on an Intel Bartlett Lake-S Core 9 273PQE processor and put it through its paces in some informal gaming tests. The results? A modest gain against Intel's mainstream...
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Intel's Wildcat Lake mobile processors are due to arrive soon, targeting the more budget friendly mainstream laptop segment. Plenty of information has already leaked regarding Wildcat Lake, including this sample laptop and Geekbench...
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AMD has finally revealed the price of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, so let's not waste any time: it's $899 USD. That is, of course, the suggested price, and retailers are free to price it higher, but $899 is already a pretty stiff ask...
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Intel's "HX" processors have, for several generations now, been its top-end laptop silicon. That's because they hold a little secret: they're not really laptop-specific silicon, exactly. Instead, the "HX" processor family is typically a...
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In case you missed the news on Thursday, AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition is a real product, and it's coming to market next month for an as-yet-undisclosed price. This CPU is a Socket AM5 desktop processor with fully sixteen Zen 5 CPU...
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AMD's Ryzen 9 processors with more than eight CPU cores use two different pieces of silicon, known as complex core dies or CCDs, for their CPU cores. Well, ever since AMD unveiled the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, the original 3D V-Cache CPU, users...
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Intel is adding a couple of Plus models to its Core Ultra 200HX series lineup for laptops, and while the press release doesn't explicitly designate the new CPUs as Arrow Lake Refresh, terminology it used for its desktop-bound Core Ultra...
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Do you have a Socket AM5 system? Do you play games on it? Do you have a 3D V-Cache processor? If the answers to those questions are YYN like some kind of Rush song with the third part turned sideways, then you should absolutely check out...
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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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AMD isn't the only company launching non-mobile processors at Mobile World Congress 2026. Intel's got some hardware to show off today, too, in the form of the Xeon 6+ processors that we know better by their codename "Clearwater Forest"...
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AMD told us at CES 2026 that it would be bringing its Ryzen AI 400 processors to desktop at some point and the company announced those chips today at Mobile World Congress. Yes, indeed; AMD's bringing its latest mobile silicon to the...
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You're probably expecting us to be talking about one of the extant Bartlett Lake processors based on re-reheated Raptor Lake silicon. Nope! This is a Core 9 273PQE, one of the long-rumored 12 P-core LGA 1700 CPUs. However, lest you accuse...
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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 AM5...
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Arrow Lake is the codename for Intel's Core Ultra 200 series processors, which are currently its latest-generation desktop CPUs despite that they've been somewhat superseded by the Core Ultra 300 series on mobile. Before we receive the...
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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 acknowledged...
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The Ryzen 7 9850X3D, which was announced by AMD during (not at) CES 2026, has had a date and price finally set: January 29th, and $499 USD. That's only a $20 jump over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D's MSRP, although those parts have been available as...
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If you're looking at buying a new Ryzen CPU, the time is now, and we mean right now, as in literally within the next few hours. That's because AMD is expected to raise prices on its CPUs at the distributor level if it hasn't already done...
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Black Friday is here, and we've been working overtime to make sure you get the best gaming CPU deals this week. Whether you're building a new PC or upgrading an existing one, these are some of the best processor deals for a modern gaming...
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