For gaming rigs, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is easily the best value because its gaming performance is moreorless on equal footing with the more expensive 9900X3D and 9950X3D CPUs.

Home > Computing AMD Confirms 9600X3D 6-Core Gaming CPU in Driver Release If it's anything like the 5600X3D, it should offer near-9800X3D gaming performance but at a much lower price.

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake-S desktop 'Core Ultra 400' series CPU leaks: up to 52 cores of CPU power, support for DDR5-10000+ memory, new LGA 1854 socket.

Wait, am I misremembering the names of these? Because Meltdown was absolutely a bug that cost performance in addition to leaking secure data, and Intel said so. The load-store unit fetched the ...

In this video, we review the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, analyzing and benchmarking the new chip against the previous "fastest gaming CPU," the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.

The Asus TUF Gaming T500 may be the strangest gaming PC I've seen at Computex 2025 — sporting an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti desktop GPU and a CPU used in laptops.

Avert your eyes, desktop purists! Asus' newest compact tower pairs a full GeForce RTX 5060 Ti card with laptop-class processors to reduce the price. I went hands on with the unusual TUF Gaming T500.

The Switch 2’s full spec sheet is finally here, and with it, a breakdown of the CPU and GPU. With a custom NVIDIA chip packing 1,536 CUDA cores, 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and a CPU that tops out at 1 ...

Microsoft is officially ending security updates for Windows 10 on Oct. 14, 2025, which means now’s the time to upgrade your operating system.

Intel has been showing off its direct cooling experiments, with waterblocks fitted directly to its Intel Core Ultra and Xeon processors.

In doing so, it's fair to consider the new ASUS TUF Gaming T500 a hybrid desktop. To be clear, ASUS isn't pitching this as a hybrid system, but the shoe certainly fits.