Whether you're upgrading your desktop PC or building a new one, choosing the right processor is the most crucial and complex ...

AMD today launched the fastest gaming processor ever with its new Ryzen 7 9850X3D. The company shared performance benchmarks and more details. At CES 2026 today, AMD made a couple of major mobile ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. AMD delivers the ultimate blow to Intel, thanks to its second-gen 3D V-Cache technology. If you buy something ...

That 125W CPU rating is not telling you what you think it is ...

Given its recent manufacturing troubles, a resurgent AMD, an incursion from Qualcomm, and Apple’s shift from customer to competitor, it’s been a rough few years for Intel’s processors. Computer buyers ...

Something to look forward to: Intel will launch brand new Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs later this month. Ahead of its release, the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K has appeared on the PassMark benchmark ...

Rahim is a Senior Tech/Commerce Writer at Valnet and builds PCs & networking solutions on demand. Whether It's your GPU, CPU, Display, or just an SSD upgrade, expect him to have a well-researched ...

I've been reviewing hardware and software, devising testing methodology and handed out buying advice for what seems like forever; I'm currently absorbed by computers and gaming hardware, but ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

PC bottleneck detection helps pinpoint which component limits performance when games stutter, apps lag, or multitasking feels sluggish. Many slow PC diagnosis issues surface through simple observation ...