Geekbench now blocks benchmark scores from unreleased hardware By Paul Lilly News No more benchmark results for engineering samples.
The best CPU for gaming in 2021 By Alan Dexter Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
Silicon Lottery cites 'dwindling' CPU overclocking headroom as a reason for closure By Paul Lilly News Selling cherry-picked processors was a viable business, until it wasn't.
How to overclock your PC By James Norris, Tyler Wilde Guide How to safely boost your PC's speed with an overclocked processor.
Asus is issuing BIOS updates to support Windows 11 on unsupported Intel CPUs By Paul Lilly News You may not need to upgrade your PC to run Windows 11 after all, just your BIOS.
AMD's Ryzen 6000 series rumored to be in mass production, but may not be Zen 4 By Paul Lilly News Updated APUs with Navi 2 graphics could arrive before AMD's next-gen Zen 4 CPUs.
AMD's Ryzen 5000 series CPUs are getting cheaper ahead of new chip launches By Paul Lilly News Both AMD and Intel are releasing new processors in the near future.
Own an AMD Ryzen CPU? Download the latest chipset drivers for 'critical security fixes' By Paul Lilly News Despite the vague release notes, Ryzen (including Threadripper) owners should install this driver.
AMD claims its largest share of the overall x86 CPU market in 14 years By Paul Lilly News According to Mercury Research, AMD's x86 processor share is close to its all-time high.
AMD is crushing Intel in desktop CPU sales at several popular retailers By Paul Lilly News The best-selling desktop processors at places like Amazon and Newegg are mostly Ryzen CPUs.
Intel erased all the market share gains AMD CPUs made this year By Paul Lilly News Nearly three out of four CPUs on the Steam Hardware Survey are Intel chips.
Razer upgrades its Blade 15 laptops with Tiger Lake-H and up to a 360Hz display By Paul Lilly News Preorders are open for Razer's freshly sharpened Blade 15 Advanced laptops.
Researchers find new CPU vulnerabilities and say fixes would kill performance By Paul Lilly News The new Spectre variants leave billions of PCs defenseless, researchers say.
Gigabyte confirms existing CPU coolers can work with Intel Alder Lake By Paul Lilly News Gigabyte has begin gearing up its water coolers for Alder Lake chips and the LGA 1700 socket.
Intel CEO reacts to Grace, Nvidia's first data center CPU: 'We're on offense, not defense' By Paul Lilly News If Intel is worried about Grace encroaching on its territory, it's not showing it.
Boutique builder didn’t sell a single AMD PC in 2016, now they’re outselling Intel By Paul Lilly News Puget Systems has provided some interesting sales data.
New Intel Alder Lake leak promises 24-thread gaming laptop chips By Alan Dexter News Intel's first hybrid chips look to come in many, many guises.
Even if Intel launches a Core i9 10900KS tomorrow, you should wait for Rocket Lake By Paul Lilly News A special edition Core i9 10900KS feels like an unnecessary addition with Rocket Lake right around the corner.
Elusive Ryzen 7 5800X is available from AMD, get it while you can By Paul Lilly News This is not likely to last long.
PSA: Not all 400-series motherboards will support Intel’s next-gen gaming CPUs By Paul Lilly News In a support article, Intel clarifies the B460 and H410 mobos will not work with the upcoming Rocket Lake processors.
