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'The game is ass on anything else but a 9800X3D': Esports players are complaining about using Intel CPUs at sponsored tournaments rather than AMD X3D chips, with multiple claims of crashing and significantly worse performance
By Andy Edser published
News Intel might be inside, but some wish it wasn't.

The minimum PC requirements for Football Manager 26 start so low that 15-year-old CPUs are good enough, though your graphics card will need to be a tad newer
By Nick Evanson published
News Still, any GPU from the past 10 years is nice to see.

Nova Lake shipping manifest confirms rumours that Intel's flagship CPU will be packing up to 52 cores, but more cores aren't all Intel needs
By James Bentley published
News Catching up to AMD will take a big effort.

AMD's PC graphics card market share falls to a worrying 6% according to the latest analyst data putting Nvidia at 94% and probably an all-time high
By Jeremy Laird published
news But AMD has taken a big chunk out of Intel in CPUs.

The PC hardware requirements for Dying Light: The Beast are heavy on the CPU side, but they're all over the place when it comes to the GPU
By Nick Evanson published
News At least Techland has recognised the millions of PC gamers who use a laptop.

If this report about 2nm silicon from Japanese chip manufacturing start-up Rapidus beating TSMC is true, there might just be hope for GPU prices
By Jeremy Laird published
News ...and Intel 18A isn't really in the running, allegedly.

Intel's patent for 'software defined super cores' probably won't make an appearance in CPUs any time soon but implementing the tech could spell the end of the P-core
By Nick Evanson published
News No P, no E. Just cores. Super cores.

A former mayor in the Philippines may have got a majorly bad deal on computing tech, reportedly paying $175,000 for 16 Intel 11th Gen machines
By James Bentley published
News And the current mayor doubts their reasoning.
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