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Arc Raiders olive locations: Three raiders running with guns in their hands through Buried City, an urban environment flooded with sand.

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.

Lean and mean
SignalRGB's custom gaming PC built inside of an old microwave.

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.

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A promotional image for the launch of AMD's Ryzen 6000 processors, showing a stylized shot of the die, against a digital-effect background.

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.

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A photograph of Intel's Interim Co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus standing on stage, with a background displaying Panther Lake and Intel 18A

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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MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk WiFi and Asus ROG Maximum Z790 Hero gaming motherboards on a green background with a PC Gamer Recommended label

Best gaming motherboards in 2025: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today

By Dave James last updated

Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.

Best Mobo
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor

AMD's dual V-Cache uber CPU gets a (rumoured) name and a high-clocked single-die cousin: Give it up for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and Ryzen 7 9850X3D

By Jeremy Laird published

News 5.6 GHz across the board...

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Apple M5

Apple announces new M5 chip with double the per-core performance of the M1 and it's got me wondering why AMD and Intel can't keep up with Apple's single-core performance gains

By Jeremy Laird published

News New M5 chip is about twice as fast as the original M1 in raw single-thread benchmarks.

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A photograph of Intel's Interim Co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus standing on stage, with a background displaying Panther Lake and Intel 18A

Intel attempts to clarify whether the new Xe3 iGPU in Panther Lake is next-gen Celestial technology but I'm left confused and fearing for the future of Intel Arc graphics

By Jeremy Laird published

News So is it Celestial, or not?

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A photo of an Intel 18A wafer, full of Panther Lake compute tiles, with a stylized image of a complete PTL chip in the background.

'Now you've got something that's a little bit easier and less expensive and can go a little bit faster': Intel's lead x86 CPU architect explains why it's not bringing Hyper-Threading back for Panther Lake

By Jacob Fox published

News You just don't need it when you have hybrid cores.

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A stylized, promotional render for Intel's Panther Lake processors

Panther Lake revealed: Intel's pocket powerhouse is a big step up from Lunar Lake, with performance and efficiency gains all around

By Nick Evanson published

Little big cat But is the cost of multiple tiles and Foveros the answer to AMD's monolithic approach?

Little big cat
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