Checking your CPU’s temperature is a great way to make sure that your processor is running at peak performance, as a processor that’s too hot can cause all kinds of common PC problems, from throttled performance to crashes. There are a number of different ways to check your CPU temperature, and you may have some … Read more
Video editing is one of the most intensive tasks you can ask of your CPU — even one of the best ones. It’s also one of those tasks that a CPU can really dig into, utilizing as many cores as it has on hand, and as high a clock speed as it can handle. Video … Read more
AMD’s got plenty of top-notch processors in the Ryzen 7000 lineup, but it still hasn’t given up on last-gen chips, as evidenced by its latest announcement. The company unveiled several new CPUs during an event in China, and while we’d largely expect AM5 chips at this point, we’re also seeing the previously unannounced Ryzen 5000XT … Read more
Jacob Roach / Digital Trends If you want a midrange processor in 2024, two of the best options available are AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X and Intel’s Core i5-14600K. These $300-ish processors offer lots of cores for high performance computing and gaming, as well as 5GHz+ clock speeds. They aren’t quite as powerful as the very … Read more
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
Jacob Roach / Digital Trends / Digital Trends Typically, buying the latest hardware is recommended. When it comes to gaming laptops, each year we see new GPUs and CPUs that are worth the extra cash — or even waiting a few months for. But this year, things are different. We’ve just seen a slew of … Read more
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
Buying yourself a gaming PC can be frustrating, especially with how expensive GPUs have gotten on the market recently. That said, you don’t have to spend a huge amount of money on the game, and while you certainly won’t be able to get high-end performance, you can certainly do something relatively good for less than … Read more
Picking between AMD and Intel is one of the main considerations when building a new PC. Like macOS versus Windows, the AMD versus Intel rivalry is one of the greatest debates for PC enthusiasts, and right now, we are in the middle of a neck-and-neck race that’s bound to get even more heated. AMD’s latest … Read more
If you don’t really game and want to get into it, then grabbing yourself a starter gaming PC is a way to save yourself some money while dipping your toes into the world of gaming. Of course, you can certainly buy yourself something really expensive and fancy, but it might be overwhelming, and it will … Read more
