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The AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D on top of its packaging, with an orange background

AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D review

By Andy Edser published

Score: 86% All the gaming benefits of 3D V-Cache for a reasonable sum.

Score: 86%
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor

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.

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AMD Pins

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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