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AMD has just launched the Ryzen 7 9850X3D with zero fanfare, and I think I understand why
News The real hype may still turn out to be a fever dream.
In a major plot twist, Intel could soon be making chips for Apple once again, only this time, it'll be the Arm-based M-series
News This wasn't on my 2025 bingo card. But then neither was the Nvidia collab.
Gaming PC with bizarre Chinese-made but AMD-derived 16-core x86 CPU and Nvidia graphics goes on sale, but only in China for now
News AMD Zen-derived cores surely make for a licensing nightmare.
Intel will reportedly take the fight to AMD's dominant X3D gaming CPUs with monstrous Nova Lake chip packing 288 MB of vertical cache and 52 cores
News A battle royale of stacked cache CPUs beckons in 2026.
Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPU pops up in Geekbench with decent but not exactly spectacular benchmark numbers
News These aren't final figures, but Panther Lake doesn't look like a huge advance.
Thermal Grizzly Der8enchtable review
Score: 94% It's probably not for you but that doesn't stop it from being utterly brilliant.
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming CPU
New CPU guide I've been buying and using CPUs for PC gaming for over three decades, so now you can learn from the mistakes I've made in the past.
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming PC
New PC Guide I bought my first gaming PC almost two decades ago, and here are the things I've learnt since then that I think you should know.
