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Paul Lilly - Mon, May 04, 2026
Once again, there is evidence to suggest that AMD is readying a Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D processor for the enterprise segment. After breaking cover in a shipping manifest earlier this year, the unreleased PRO model has made yet another...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 29, 2026
A flagship desktop processor is not usually considered a deal, as the expectation is that you'll pay a premium to play on the high ground. However, there are situations that can result in a flagship chip (or a former flagship chip) being a...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Apr 25, 2026
It didn't take long for AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition to processor to assert itself into Amazon's list of best selling CPUs. Despite reservations over the chip's premium pricing, the $899 part cracked the top 10 to take spot No. 8...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 22, 2026
Hot on the heels of AMD launching its Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor, Dell has gone and injected the chip into its Alienware Area-51, becoming the first bulk OEM to bring the flagship chip to market in a prebuilt PC. It's...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Apr 21, 2026
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition - MSRP $899 The new Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition has higher power limits and packs a pair of 3D V-Cache equipped CCDs with a whopping 192MB of total L3 cache, making it AMD’s fastest desktop...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 20, 2026
The MacBook Neo is such a popular item that Apple is sold out of inventory for the month of April. Not without good reason, the MacBook Neo is the most affordable MacBook ever, and while the specifications are not mind blowing, it proving capable for general purpose computing and even some...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Apr 17, 2026
Whatever you think of Moore's Law is Dead, he's just dropped a massive new leak seemingly revealing tons of supposed details about AMD's upcoming Zen 7 architecture and the products that will be based on it. As always, take these leaks...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 17, 2026
Retailers are prepping their online storefronts for the upcoming release of AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor, and for a brief period, Amazon was even accepting preorders. The caveat? While preorders were still live, Amazon had set the asking price at $999, which is $100 above...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 16, 2026
Elvis may have left the building never to perform live again, but there is another king that may be returning, according to a leaked image that is making the rounds. That would be AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D, a chip we once declared to be the...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Apr 11, 2026
Sure, now may not be the most ideal time to build a new PC, but if you're looking to bite the bullet anyway, here is heads up that AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D, one of the best gaming chips available, is on sale for an all-time low price. To sweeten the pot, it also come with a download code for...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Apr 08, 2026
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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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 06, 2026
A handful of online retailers have jumped the gun and posted product pages for AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor, and if the attached prices are accurate, the upcoming flagship will command in the neighborhood of $1,000 when it officially...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Mar 30, 2026
What does "FSR" stand for, PC gamers? If you said FidelityFX Super Resolution, well, you're mistaken. It turns out FSR doesn't stand for anything; instead, it's simply a brand for AMD's graphics technologies. AMD told us this back around...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Mar 28, 2026
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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Paul Lilly - Sat, Mar 28, 2026
One of the major selling points of AMD's Ryzen processors for the desktop is the chip designer's commitment to socket longevity. To put it into perspective, socket AM4 introduced with AMD's original Zen processors is turning 10 years old this year and is still seeing platform support with...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Mar 26, 2026
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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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 23, 2026
Forget for a moment that PC memory and storage prices are getting out of control. If you're building a new gaming PC or upgrading and existing one, you could do a lot worse than assembling a system around AMD's spunky Ryzen 7 9800X3D (see...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 19, 2026
When an apparent Medusa Point APU based on AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture found its way to Geekbench earlier this week, the big news was the amount of reported L3 cache. Well, whoever is uploading benchmark runs of the mystery...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Mar 18, 2026
Samsung and AMD have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their strategic collaboration on next-generation AI memory, including cutting-edge high bandwidth memory for AMD's not-yet-released Instinct MI455X accelerator that was...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Mar 18, 2026
AMD saw Intel refresh its Arrow Lake processors with faster clock speeds, a new optimization trick, and claims of giving gaming a boost and may have said, 'Hold my beer'. According to a popular leaker on X with a positive track record, AMD...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 16, 2026
Another unreleased processor has found its way to Geekbench's benchmark database and according to the details in the listing, it is likely an early engineering sample of a Medusa Point APU based on AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Mar 11, 2026
It's been a wild, news-packed week so far, with lots of announcements coming out of the 2026 Game Developers Conference (GDC). Besides NVIDIA's news yesterday and Intel's new CPUs today, Microsoft's new Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma, officially...
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