Intel was a dominant leader in the CPU market for the better part of a decade, but AMD has seen massive success in recent ...

Fancy a PC in a glass-sided case? Asus' Back to the Future (BTF) initiative one-ups MSI's Project Zero for cable-free PC builds by incorporating a special graphics card with no power wires. We give it ...

However, the new Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Intel Core Ultra 5 245K really aren't any better than the chips they are replacing, and their efficiency gains are too modest to justify investing in a ...

The new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D pairs Zen 5 with 2nd Generation 3D V-Cache to boost gaming perfomance, increase clocks, and ...

I've been buying and using CPUs for PC gaming for over three decades, so now you can learn from the mistakes I've made in the ...

Closer to the end of 2024, we return to the classic PC builds of the month. This time, we'll look at several typical ...

Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop processors ... And besides, you’ll need a compatible motherboard – Arrow Lake uses an entirely new CPU socket – and these listings are not offering that rather ...

This could mean upgrading your motherboard, but at the same time ... also the consideration of PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 RAM support. The Intel Core i7-12700K will support DDR4 memory, but we advise ...

This is a smaller difference than between the Core i7 14700K and 14900K ... Unlike Intel’s LGA1700 boards, none of the new LGA1851 motherboards will support DDR4 memory, so you’ll need ...

Read our Intel Core i7 13700K review ... Check that a new CPU is compatible with your motherboard before upgrading. Intel’s compatibility tool lets you look up any Intel processor and view ...

Now is the time to ensure that your rig is flight-ready. If not, these gaming PCs are the quickest way to a smooth takeoff.

Depending on how you do it, it can be a minor pain to get Windows 11 up and running on a computer that doesn't natively support it. But once the OS is installed, Microsoft's early warnings about ...