Once upon a time, not overclocking your CPU meant you were missing out on a major free performance boost. A smidge of manual tweaking and a bigger cooler would have yielded you a significantly faster ...
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In brief: AMD dominated Amazon's best-selling CPU chart back in November 2024, taking the top 12 spots. But has Team Red managed to hold on to that momentum over a year later? Today, the top 14 ...
Our biggest prediction for 2026 is that we're going to see volatility across the desktop and laptop space, both for prebuilts and components. With tech holding up a ton of our economy, manufacturers ...
TL;DR: AMD's future Zen CPU roadmap reveals Zen 6 ("Medusa"), Zen 7 ("Prometheus") on AM5 socket with DDR5 and PCIe Gen5, followed by Zen 8 ("Penelope") and Zen 9 ("Nemesis") launching around ...
If you want to extract maximum performance from your components, overclocking is probably the first thing that comes to mind. In theory, you can increase the clock speeds of most modern CPUs, graphics ...
Fans of small form factor PCs are a dedicated bunch, with the best Mini-ITX motherboards being the absolute superstars of each build. And it's easy to understand why. A mini PC just has an innate ...
Picking the best CPU could be as simple as matching a budget to a benchmark chart. But these days the landscape feels more like a negotiation. AMD and Intel both have solid chips at nearly every price ...