Being a PC user comes with a certain level of anxiety. "Am I settling for an underpowered GPU?", "Should I spend the premium on that fancy motherboard?", and "Is it finally time to buy an 8-core CPU ...

Overview To game at a modern level, gaming PCs need not only very high clock speeds but also a highly optimized processor ...

The new chip sits above the Core Ultra X7 368H and below the Ultra X9 388H; surprisingly, it has the same specs as the Ultra ...

German overclocker Der8auer successfully outperformed an overclocked Core Ultra 9 285K with an overclocked Core Ultra 7 270K ...

Intel’s 14th-generation desktop processors were a mild update on top of a mild update: a barely faster revision of the 13th-gen Core CPUs, which were themselves a modest tweak to 2021’s 12th-gen Core ...

Maybe AI isn't so useless after all.

I’m not going to even pretend the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a bad CPU. It’s one of the best processors you can buy, and undoubtedly the best processor you can buy for gaming. There are just a couple of ...

It looks as though a new Intel gaming CPU for laptops is actually based on the company's last-gen tech, according to a benchmark leak that's shown up in the Geekbench Results Browser. The listing ...

The Core Ultra 9 285K arrived with a thud. It’s an interesting, and sometimes very impressive, processor, but it’s not necessarily a good one. Stacked up against some of the best processors, the Core ...

Intel discreetly introduced the Wildcat Lake Core Series 3 CPUs at CES 2026 with some high-level specifications, but no part ...

A hardware enthusiast has demonstrated that Intel’s Bartlett Lake-based Core 9 273PQE processor can be made to run on a ...

This Intel® CPU is key for not just much better performance, but also power-efficiency, battery life, and more ...