Thermal throttling: what it is and how it affects frame rates

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends If you’ve ever been playing a game just fine and then found your fans spinning up fast and loud and your frame rate tanking, you may have become a victim of thermal throttling. It’s when your processor, graphics card, or some other component feels it’s getting too hot to continue … Read more

Intel Core i9-14900KS vs. Ryzen 9 7950X3D: top CPUs, compared

Intel’s freshly released Core i9-14900KS processor is advertised as the fastest CPU in the world, but does that mean AMD can never hope to compete, even with its flagship Ryzen 9 7950X3D? Not at all. Each CPU has its merits, and both are insanely powerful in their own right. At this price point and at … Read more

Ryzen 7950X3D vs. 7900X3D vs. 7800X3D: Which is best ?

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends AMD’s Zen 4 3D V-Cache CPUs are true marvels of modern CPU performance. They offer exceptional gaming performance on par with the absolute best that Intel has to offer, and yet do it at a fraction of the power draw and heat output. They lose out on productivity performance, but … Read more

Ryzen 5 5600 vs. Core i3-14100F: best CPUs for under $100

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends If you’re buying or building an ultra-budget PC, then two of the best CPU options around $100 are the AMD Ryzen 5 5600, and the Intel Core i3-14100F. These chips come from two different manufacturers from different generations, and are built on very different designs. But which is best? It … Read more

The best CPU for the RTX 4070 or 4070 Ti

Intel Core i5-13600K Best Intel CPU for the 4070 and 4070 Ti Jump to details AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Best budget CPU for the RTX 4070 and 4070 Ti Jump to details Show 1 more item The Nvidia RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti are among the best graphics cards you can buy for high … Read more

What CPU do I have? Here’s how to easily check

Want to know what CPU is inside your PC without taking it apart? That’s no problem. Whether you have an Intel or AMD processor, a new PC or a decade old machine, finding out what your CPU is takes no time at all. In just a few clicks, you’ll know everything you need to know … Read more

AMD Zen 5: Everything we know about AMD’s next-gen CPUs

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends AMD Zen 5 is the next-generation Ryzen CPU architecture for Team Red and is slated for a launch sometime in 2024. We’ve been hearing tantalizing rumors for a while now and promises of big leaps in performance. In short, Zen 5 could be very exciting indeed. We don’t have all … Read more

Intel Arrow Lake: everything we know about 15th-gen chips

Intel Arrow Lake is Team Blue’s next-generation of processors. The successors to the Meteor Lake/Raptor Lake refresh 14th-generation, Arrow Lake is expected to debut towards the end of 2024, but it’s not quite as straightforward as previous generations. It may launch alongside another low-power version to maximize Intel’s fabrication capacity and ditch one of Intel … Read more

New AMD CPUs let you play Cyberpunk without a graphics card

AMD just revealed its new lineup of desktop APUs with built-in graphics at CES 2024: the Ryzen 8000G series. According to AMD, the Ryzen 8000G lineup can run AAA titles without requiring a discrete GPU. Will these CPUs really rival some of the best processors when it comes to graphics performance? Here’s everything we know. … Read more