During twenty years of running an IT services company, one of the questions I heard most often was: should I buy I used high-end processor or opt for a current-generation budget processor? On paper, ...

CPUs are central to PC builds, providing the brains (and horsepower) for a majority of computational tasks. The mainstream budget CPUs have you pick between Intel or AMD, which in turn affects your ...

TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a new Zen 3 processor, shows strong synthetic performance with Geekbench scores of 1936 (single-core) and 9292 (multi-core), outperforming the Ryzen 5 5500 by up to 13%.

The CPU market looks very different from six months ago. Intel's back in the conversation, AMD's X3D chips still rule gaming, ...

November 15, 2025: With this update, we added the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K as our latest Best Mainstream CPU (Intel), replacing the Intel Core Ultra 5 265K. Our remaining picks have been vetted for ...

Multiplier overclocking looks set to soon find its way to low-cost Intel CPUs, but questions remain about chipset support.

Recent comments from Intel suggest that overclocking its CPUs may not remain exclusive to high-end K-SKUs with future ...