Most of AMD’s new products get a whole launch event with a lot of fanfare, but some of them don’t get as much as a mention. The latter is true for the Ryzen 5 7400F, which just showed up out of nowhere as part of AMD’s product stack. A member of AMD’s Zen 4 lineup, … Read more
With the big Copilot+ push last year and Intel’s radically new Lunar Lake range, it’d be easy to assume Intel forgot about gaming laptops. CES 2025 proves the company didn’t. Several months after the original Lunar Lake CPUs launched, which Intel calls Core Ultra 200V CPUs, the company is launching 200U, 200H, and 200HX processors. … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents AMD played with its food Intel’s struggles never let up A new perspective Whenever we have a new generation of processors from AMD and Intel, a lot of things change. Of course, the power balance among the best processors shifts, and there’s a seemingly endless number of comparisons to … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents Missing PPM package Intel APO wasn’t working Blue Screens for Easy Anti-Cheat Incorrect BIOS settings Looking forward Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs didn’t make it on our list of the best processors when they released earlier this year. As you can read in our Core Ultra 9 285K review, Intel’s … Read more
Get ready to spend big if you plan on scoring one of the best graphics cards or best processors. According to Jon Peddie Research, the PC market could be headed for a “recession” due to proposed tariffs on several countries, which are said to go into effect shortly after Donald Trump becomes president on January … Read more
Intel has announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired. The executive, who first joined Intel in 1979 at 18 years old, is being replaced by David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus. Holthaus and Zinsner will serve as interim co-CEOs while the board of directors works “diligently and expeditiously” to find a successor. Gelsinger became CEO … Read more
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, the last-gen Ryzen 7 7800X3D is still potent competition, particularly when it comes to gaming. These are two of the go-to … Read more
Nvidia might be at the heart of your next gaming PC, not just through a graphics card, but also through your processor. Team Green is working on an Arm-based PC platform that’s built around a CPU and GPU designed by Nvidia and that is reportedly set to launch in September 2025, according to DigiTimes. According … Read more
We all knew it was coming. A string of rumors over the past several months has pointed to AMD releasing the Ryzen 7 9800X3D on November 7, but the company itself just confirmed the new CPU. It’s looking for a spot among the best processors, packing 3D V-Cache on top of an eight-core Zen 5 … Read more
Major motherboard brands are gearing up for the release of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9000X3D processors with BIOS updates that add support for the new CPUs. Alongside support, some brands, such as Gigabyte and Asus, have added an “X3D Turbo Mode,” which is said to boost performance by up to 35%. The update is targeting some … Read more
