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Best CPU for gaming in 2026: These are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind

By Jacob Ridley last updated

Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 7 2750K Plus processor, resting against a colorful, Intel-branded box

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review

By Nick Evanson published

Score: 89% Arrow Lake's redemption is here at last.

Score: 89%
A photograph of Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus processor, placed on an Intel-branded display box

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus review

By Nick Evanson published

Score: 87% The dark horse of Arrow Lake: Ultra 7 class performance for an Ultra 3 class price tag.

Score: 87%
Kliff, protagonist of Crimson Desert, clashes swords with his foe.

Pearl Abyss working on bringing Arc GPU support to Crimson Desert, with Intel 'ready to assist'

By Jess Kinghorn published

News "Getting games running smoothly is always a partnership between developers and hardware makers."

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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor

Amazon US sold nearly half the number of CPUs it did this time last year

By James Bentley published

News That's the memory crisis for you…

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Kliff, the Crimson Desert protagonist.

Crimson Desert will not boot on Intel Arc graphics cards and users are being encouraged to refund the game

By James Bentley published

News We were greeted by a pop-up saying our hardware is not supported when we tried.

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Framework AMD mainboard running in a Cooler Master chassis, with SteamOS on it

Big update to SteamOS improves support for non-Valve handhelds, newer platforms, discrete GPUs, and Steam Machine

By Jacob Ridley published

News Wayland has also arrived.

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Intel Arc B580 graphics card

Intel must also hate waiting for shaders to compile as it begins rollout of pre-compiled code from the cloud for faster load times

By Jacob Ridley last updated

News A handful of games supported at launch, including COD: Black Ops 7 and Cyberpunk 2077.

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Intel Core Ultra 200HX Plus

Intel adds mobile chips to its updated Arrow Lake 'Plus' family with 8% more gaming performance despite no changes to core counts or their clock speeds

By Jeremy Laird published

News Is it all about Intel's new performance BOT?

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor surrounded by DDR5 memory sticks from Corsair, Kingston, and Lexar

New report claims CPUs are next in line for a chip shortage but there's little evidence of that right now

By Jeremy Laird published

News Are CPUs headed in the same direction as GPUs, RAM and SSDs?

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