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Intel Core Ultra 200HX
Intel's refreshed high-end Core Ultra 9 290HX and Core Ultra 7 270HX Arrow Lake laptop CPUs have arrived

The Core Ultra 290HX offers roughly 8 percent faster gaming performance, says Intel

Intel sign outside the company's Arizona Octillo Fab site.
Intel says its Xeon 6 Chips are set to coordinate Nvidia’s giant AI servers

All those GPUs need a manager.

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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
One of our favorite gaming CPUs just got a steep discount, making it hard to ignore

At this price, it's a good time to pick one up

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D socketed in a motherboard.
3 tweaks that cut 10C off my CPU temperatures
AMD

A new cooler shouldn't be the first thing on your mind.

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Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus
Intel says its new Core Ultra 200S Plus CPUs are its "fastest desktop gaming processors ever"

The CPU-maker seems to finally be taking gaming seriously.

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The water pump and temperature display of an NZXT Kraken AIO.
Your cooler isn't the reason your CPU runs hot

Even a 360mm AIO won't always keep your CPU cool

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amd ryzen 7 9850x3d installed in motherboard
I enabled Memory Context Restore, and my Ryzen boot times stopped being a joke
AMD

The only bad thing is I don't have time to make coffee while I wait

An image of a person applying thermal paste on a Ryzen 5 5600X.
Before you repaste your CPU, try these 3 things first

A fresh paste is probably the last thing you need.

custom watercooled pc with custom cables
I watercooled my PC, and it made less of a difference than undervolting did

Fix the cause instead of treating the symptom

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The Ryzen 7 7800X3D box.
My CPU was bottlenecking my GPU — here's how I found it out
AMD

My RTX 4090 just wasn't performing the way I expected it to.

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A slide from AMD's Ryzen AI Pro 400 desktop CPU reveal
AMD adds an AI-focused CPU to its Ryzen desktop lineup
AMD

The Ryzen AI Pro 400 desktop CPU series is focused on businesses

A photo of a socketed 7800X3D CPU
AM5 is the first CPU socket I've trusted to last, and it changes how I buy parts

I can finally feel good about investing into a platform

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An image of an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor.
The CPU features disabled in your BIOS by default are leaving performance on the table
PC

Your BIOS settings can unlock some new headroom

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The Bequiet rich CPU cooler.
4 reasons your CPU runs hot even with a good cooler

Even the best CPU coolers can be limited by other factors.

A custom gaming PC running SteamOS with a display, keyboard, and mouse
Your gaming mouse/keyboard might be wasting CPU cycles, not improving performance

Lowering polling rates didn't hurt responsiveness, but it made my PC more stable.

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An photo showing an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU with thermal paste.
Better thermal paste won't compensate for poor cooler contact

Even a $20 paste won't save you from high temperatures.

An image of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processor's contacts.
This beefy AMD CPU is great for gaming, and now comes in with a price that can't be ignored
An image of a person holding an AMD Ryzen 7 7700 chip.
Your CPU's integrated graphics can do more than you think

iGPUs are stronger than we'd ever have fathomed growing up

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An AMD AM4 motherboard with a CPU installed onto it.
This 6-year-old CPU still crushes it at gaming
AM4

AM4 continues to rule budget gaming

amd ryzen 7 9850x3d on notebook
3 reasons you should make sure PBO is enabled for your AMD Ryzen CPU
AMD

Just do yourself a favor and turn it on.

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