AMD lifted the curtain on the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in January, making the bold claim that it was the “world’s fastest gaming processor.” It’s a big statement for a chip that, under the hood, is the same as ...

Alongside AMD's Ryzen 9 5900X, which I also reviewed today, sits the Ryzen 7 5800X. This is essentially the replacement for the Ryzen 7 3800X with the same eight core, 16-thread specifications, ...

Would you trade the ability to easily overclock a CPU for a stash of additional cache and the performance benefits that come with it? It's a question enthusiasts may answer when AMD ships its upcoming ...

When you plan to overclock the processor, always invest in good hardware. And that includes a proper motherboard, power supply, memory, and of course, cooling. Cheaper motherboards are often not ...

After nearly six months of AMD dominating the desktop market, Intel is back with its 11th-generation desktop platform. The i9-11900K leads the lineup, though most system builders will likely settle ...

Overclocking is not currently supported on the upcoming Ryzen 7 5800X3D. What's critical to notice is that the original posting makes no indication that there is a permanent lack of this capability, ...

Just looking at dollars, cents, and cores, you wouldn't be faulted for thinking the new Editors' Choice-winning 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is the best desktop CPU to face down Intel's 10-core flagship, ...

Increasing the voltage to 1.3825V, we overclock by going as high as we can on the all-core multiplier, increasing it in 25MHz increments every time the machine runs our Blender test without failure.

Gaming PCs Holy RAMpocalypse! Here's an RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC with a load of RAM and SSD storage, all inexplicably at last year's price Graphics Cards Best graphics cards in 2026: I've tested pretty ...