Intel's Core Ultra 200S series aren't bad processors, and the Ultra 5 245K is perhaps the best of the lot right now, but there are much better gaming CPUs on the market for the same money—from ...

When it comes to the question of Core i7 14900K vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D, both processors have their strengths and weaknesses, and both go about things in different ways. The 14900K goes for the brute ...

I’ve been testing Intel’s $589 next-generation flagship Core Ultra 9 285K processor over the past week. It runs cooler and a little faster than Intel’s Core i9-14900K in non-gaming tasks ...

Intel's flagship "Arrow Lake" CPU, the Core Ultra 9 285K, delivers reduced power consumption, dedicated AI silicon, and promising platform improvements. The one big question mark: Its performance ...

Intel may not have improved gaming performance on the Core Ultra 9 285K, but its goal was to improve efficiency. And true to its word, there are some big improvements in temperature and power draw.

The Core Ultra 9 285K and Ryzen 7 7800X3D force you to think about pricing because, depending on what you’re using your PC for, you can save quite a bit of money.

This includes an RTX 5090 graphics card, an Intel Ultra Core 9 285K CPU, 64GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD. That’s about as top-tier as you can get for a gaming PC.

The Alienware Area-51 is a beast of a gaming PC thanks to its high-end Intel Core Ultra CPU, Nvidia RTX 50-series and generous amount of RAM. Though it’s expensive and takes up a lot of space ...

If you're an Intel loyalist, this last-gen flagship continues to be one of the best gaming CPUs you can buy, especially with Intel Core Ultra 200 series CPUs, such as the Core Ultra 7 265K ...

In order to test the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H, Intel sent me an MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo (B2HMG) sample, as well as an MSI Prestige A16 AI+ (A3HMG) powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 for comparisons' sake.

For the most part, though, the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K is conservative with its performance, even falling behind in gaming. In some cases, in fact, gaming performance takes as much as a 7% hit ...