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Best CPU for gaming in 2024: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity and peace of mind
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
Qualcomm reckons it will be flogging $4 billion worth of PC CPUs annually by 2029 which is about what AMD sold in 2023
By Jeremy Laird published
News Will that be extra CPUs sold, or will it come at the expense of AMD and Intel?
Nvidia's new 'AI PC' social media channel has me foaming at the bit for the in-house CPU we all want
By Jacob Fox published
News I am a patient boy, I wait I wait I wait.
The top ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips, with the two-year old Ryzen 7 5700X sitting at the tippety-top and Intel's best effort relegated to 12th place
By Andy Edser published
News It's red red red, all the way down to number 12.
MSI responds to reports of 9800X3D CPUs 'burning out' in its motherboards but the problem seems limited for now
By Jeremy Laird published
News A batch of dodgy sockets or just maybe user error?
Nvidia's first Arm APU is said to offer Strix Halo and RTX 4070 mobile performance, with Alienware already onboard to create an all-Nvidia gaming laptop
By Jacob Fox published
news Could 2025 be the year of AMD x86 chips vs Nvidia Arm chips?
Not that any PC gamer will care but Intel is lining up low-power Arrow Lake chips for launch in January
By Nick Evanson published
news Unless you want the bare minimum of heat coming from your PC, there's just no reason to consider getting one
Nvidia has reportedly killed production of all RTX 40 GPUs apart from the 4050 and 4060 as affordable 50-series GPUs could arrive earlier than expected
By Jeremy Laird published
News RTX 50 is imminent, that's the implication...
AMD's 2025 laptop plans sure do include a lot of refreshed and rebranded APUs, but who cares when you've got Fire Range, Strix Halo, and four RDNA 4 mobile GPUs heading our way next year
By Nick Evanson published
news Hopefully, this will mean a lot more vendors will offer AMD-based laptops next year, too.
Intel admits the Arrow Lake launch missed the mark and promises performance fixes by December, but my testing suggests you shouldn't get your hopes up
By Nick Evanson published
news The chances of some Windows and BIOS updates transform Core Ultra 200S chips into AMD beaters are going to be slim.
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