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Despite Intel dropping the desktop CPU ball this year, its share of the market fell by just 4.9%—while AMD still lags significantly behind on mobile
By Andy Edser published
News Existing OEM agreements to the rescue, it seems.

AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D review
By Andy Edser published
Score: 86% All the gaming benefits of 3D V-Cache for a reasonable sum.

AMD confirms next-gen Zen 6 CPUs to launch in 2026 and 'Medusa' APUs to launch in 2027
By Jacob Fox published
News This is the first official confirmation we've got.

A few Redditors faked the recent Ryzen 7 9700X3D benchmark leaks and explain 'why you can't trust online bench databases'
By James Bentley published
News Playing X3DChess.

Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6 prove that great performance and low system requirements are king for multiplayer PC games in 2025
By Andy Edser published
Lean and mean People power.

Toasty CPU? This microwave PC build demonstrates that you ain't seen nothing yet
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Cast your eyes upon this gently lukewarm thing.

Out with the old, in with the old: AMD's still selling Zen 2 and Zen 3+ processors, now under the guise of the Ryzen 10/100 series
By Nick Evanson published
News Even if they're super cheap, the price of DDR4 will ruin sales.

OK, the Xe3 GPU in Intel's Panther Lake chip officially isn't Celestial, it's really just Xe2 'Plus Plus,' but even Intel itself doesn't yet understand how it all relates to its shock new deal with Nvidia
By Jeremy Laird published
News So, that's all cleared up now. Not.
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