Processors
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AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Review – The New Gaming King!
When you’re sitting at the top of the stack and hold the crown for the gaming king for a desktop processor, how do you carry on innovating? If the competition has gone quiet, and are struggling to keep up where the majority of the userbase are looking, you have a…
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The Clock Speed Lie: How AMD’s X3D CPUs Rewrote the Rules of Gaming
For the better part of two decades, the war for PC dominance was simple. It was a brutal, head-to-head arms race fought on a single front: clock speed. From the days of the Pentium 4 and the Athlon XP, the company that could cram more gigahertz onto a chip was…
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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU Review
The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K is one of the flagship desktop SKUs based on the Arrow Lake-S family. This is a different beast from the previous monolithic Core i9 chips. Instead of being just one big slab of silicon, the 285K employs a multi-tiled package which uses Intel’s Foveros…
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Intel Core Ultra 7 265K CPU Review
Checked our review of the Intel Core Ultra 5 and looking for something a little more potent? The Intel Core Ultra 7 265K is a high-performance processor that sits near the top of Intel’s new “Arrow Lake” lineup. It features a hybrid architecture with 8 Performance-cores and 12 Efficient-cores, it…
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Intel Core Ultra 5 245K CPU Review
The Intel Core Ultra 5 245K is here, and for those looking for a mid-to-high-end desktop gaming CPU, it’s certainly going to have a lot of appeal. As part of Intel’s new “Arrow Lake” series, this chip boasts a hybrid architecture with 14 cores (6 Performance-cores + 8 Efficient-cores) with…
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AMD 7900X Retested – PBO, SMT & Overclocked
Last week, we brought you a review of the Ryzen 7 9700X, the latest release in a seemingly long line of rather boring new CPU launches that offer minor upgrades to existing products. In short, it’s fair to say we weren’t particularly impressed by the small increase in performance it…
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Was I Wrong? – AMD Ryzen 9700X Re-Review!
On Wednesday, the Ryzen 7 9700X reviews dropped, and for the most part, it wasn’t great news for AMD. The 9700X launched with a $360 price tag, which put it 24% more expensive than the current pricing of the Ryzen 7 7700X, the CPU that it was set to replace,…
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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X CPU Review
Today sees the AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPUs launching as part of the new 4nm Zen 5 line-up and AMD have decided to launch the range with two dates in mind. First up is the Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 reviews which go live today and then, followed by the…
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Intel Core i3 14100F CPU Review
Just the other day, we took a look at the 14400F, A refreshed CPU that is the successor to the 13400F, and while it kept the core counts the same, it did see an increase in clock speed, which, depending on the game, made quite a bit of a difference,…
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Intel Core i5 14400F CPU Review
Last year we saw the inception of Intel’s latest 14th generation processors, with the i5 14600K, i7 14700K and i9 14900K hitting the market, and while there were some small changes, we all knew that it was a refresh of the 13th generation, and the gains to be had weren’t…
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Intel 14th Generation CPU Review Feat i5 14600K, i7 14700K & i9 14900K
As we move into the tail end of 2023, Intel are launching their 14th generation of Gen Core processors, Raptor Lake refresh and while it’s new, it is only a refresh of what we saw on the 13th generation Raptor Lake processors, so while we should see an uplift in…
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Intel Core i9 13900K Review
So yesterday, we looked at the Intel Core i7 13700K that formed part of Intel’s new 13th generation Raptor Lake range of processors and carrying on with content based around that, today sees us looking at the flagship, at least for now, i9 13900K. I say for now, as I’m…
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Intel Core i7 13700K Review
Raptor Lake is here and to start off our extensive coverage of the 13th generation of processors, we’re doing things a little differently. While I’m sure lots of media outlets are taking a look at the i5 13600K and i9 13900K, we’ll have those in the coming days, but we…
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AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Review
The Ryzen 7000 series are here, and while the majority of you will want to see how the high-end Ryzen 9 parts do in terms of performance, the average consumer is still going to end up buying a mainstream part, like the Ryzen 5 series of processors. If history has…
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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Review
So, today is the day. We can finally lift the lid on the new AMD Ryzen 7000 series of processors, starting with our coverage and mass amounts of benchmarks for the Ryzen 9 7900X. The shiny new 12 core, 24 thread beast that is the direct replacement for the 5900X.…
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