Exclusive: Testing Intel's Unreleased Core i9-9900KS By Paul Alcorn We take Intel's unreleased Special Edition Core i9-9900KS for a benchmarking spin.
Best Desktop CPUs for Work 2019 By Paul Alcorn We've compiled a list of processors that represent the best bang for your buck in common productivity tasks. AMD dominates the scorecard.
Best Cheap CPUs of 2019, Tested and Ranked By Paul Alcorn You can get a high-quality processor for less than $60. We've tested several cheap CPUs to help you find the right one for your needs and budget.
CPU Hierarchy 2019: Intel and AMD Processors Ranked By Paul Alcorn, Chris Angelini All of today's consumer, desktop CPUs compared, including Intel's 9th Gen Core series and AMD's Ryzen 2.
Best Gaming CPUs for 2019 By Paul Alcorn Here are the best gaming CPUs for the money. These processors offer the best performance at their price and are suitable for overclocking.
Hyper-Threading Coming to Intel's Comet Lake Core i3 Lineup: Benchmark Submission By Paul Alcorn Intel's Comet Lake Core i3 series appears to have Hyper-Threading, which sets the stage for bigger improvements in Core i5, i7 and i9 chips.
AMD Announces Ryzen 9 3900 and Ryzen 5 3500X By Paul Alcorn AMD announces the Ryzen 9 3900 and Ryzen 5 3500X with little fanfare, largely because you won't be able to buy them at retail.
Intel Axes Kaby Lake-G CPUs With AMD's Radeon Vega Graphics (Intel's Response Added) By Paul Alcorn The unholy alliance of Intel CPUs and AMD GPUs in the Kaby Lake-G processors has come to an unceremonious end.
Intel Cuts 9th-Generation F- and KF-Series Pricing by up to 20 Percent By Paul Alcorn Intel announces an official price cut on its graphics-less F-Series processors.
Intel Announces Cascade Lake Xeon W-2200 Series, Slashes Pricing up to 48 Percent By Paul Alcorn Intel refreshes its Cascade Lake Xeon W-2200 chips, bringing along a big price cut with the high core-count models.
AMD Dishes on Zen 3 and Zen 4 Architecture, Milan and Genoa Roadmap By Paul Alcorn A now-removed presentation from an HPC conference shines the light on AMD's roadmap and change to its next-gen processors.
Microsoft Embraces AMD: Custom Ryzen 7 Surface Edition CPUs Debut in Surface Laptop 3 (Updated) By Paul Alcorn AMD scores a big win with premium Surface Laptop 3 models coming from Microsoft that features a custom AMD Ryzen Surface Edition processor.
Intel Announces Cascade Lake-X With up to 50% Price Cut, More PCIe (Updated) By Paul Alcorn, Arne Verheyde Intel drops the pricing bomb with the release of its 10th-gen Cascade Lake-X chips.
AMD and Nvidia Chip-Maker TSMC Countersues GlobalFoundries for Patent Infringement By Paul Alcorn TSMC fires back at GlobalFoundries with a countersuit.
AMD Announces Ryzen 3000 PRO Processors, Picasso PRO APUs, and Athlon PRO By Paul Alcorn AMD unexpectedly announces a new range of Ryzen 3000 series PRO processors.
Intel Announces Optane DIMMs for Workstations, SSD 665P With 96-Layer QLC, Roadmap By Paul Alcorn Intel announced workstation support for Optane DIMMs, and it's coming to gaming PCs soon, too, a new SSD 665p, and a roadmap of future products.
AMD Delays Ryzen 9 3950X Launch, Announces Third-Gen Threadripper With 24 Cores By Paul Alcorn AMD delays the Ryzen 9 3950X launch until November, but announces Third-Gen Threadripper will also land in November.
AMD Announces EPYC 7H12 Processor, 64C/128T 280W TDP and New Server Platforms By Paul Alcorn AMD unveiled the 64-core 128-thread EPYC 7H12 processor with a 280W TDP at its AMD EPYC Rome European launch event, along with a full spate of enterprise-class servers.
AMD's Ryzen 3000 Boost Fix Works, But Often Hits Wrong Cores By Paul Alcorn AMD's BIOS fix boosts our Ryzen 9 3900X up to 4.65 GHz, but often on the wrong cores.
DOE Enters Partnership to Use World's Largest Chips With 1.2 Trillion Transistors and 400,000 Cores By Paul Alcorn
Intel Moonwalks on Apollo Lake, Says Consumer Chips Aren't Dying After All (Updated) By Paul Alcorn Intel says that, contrary to its own documentation posted yesterday, the Apollo Lake chips are not dying faster than expected.
AMD Announces BIOS Fix for Ryzen 3000 Processors, Dismisses Reliability Concerns By Paul Alcorn AMD fills us in one the details of its forthcoming BIOS fix and swats away concerns about reliability.
AMD's Ryzen 3000 Boost-Fixing BIOS Leaks Out, We Test With Ryzen 9 3900X and Ryzen 7 3700X By Paul Alcorn A leaked version of AMD's new firmwares that fix the Ryzen 3000 boosting issues landed on the Chiphell forums. We ran a few tests to see if they fix the issue.
Too Hot to Last? Investigating Intel's Claims About Ryzen Reliability By Paul Alcorn Intel is promoting a theory that AMD reduced its boost clocks to improve reliability. We investigate the claims with some testing.
AMD Announces BIOS Fix for Ryzen 3000 Boost Clocks, Update Comes September 10 By Paul Alcorn AMD has finally publicly acknowledged that Ryzen 3000 customers aren't receiving the expected boost frequencies. A BIOS fix for the issues will land on September 10
