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Best CPU Deals 2024: Save on AMD and Intel
By Stewart Bendle last updated
We're rounding up the best deals on CPUs.

Despite Intel patch, Black Myth: Wukong devs warn about Core 13th and 14th Gen CPU crashing
By Mark Tyson published
Out-of-video memory issues can also be sidestepped by skipping shader compilation.

Ryzen 3000 fix for 'Sinkclose' vulnerability arrives tomorrow
By Aaron Klotz published
AMD has changed course and provided a security patch for the Sinkclose vulnerability for Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors. The new update will arrive tomorrow, August 20.

China's new Hygon CPU spotted with 64 Zen cores
By Anton Shilov published
Hygon's C86-7490 processors use AMD's SP5 packaging, but what resides under the heat spreader?

AMD's Zen 5 AVX-512 performance tested
By Aaron Klotz published
Phoronix tested the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 7950X in a head-to-head face-off in AVX-512 workloads to see how the 9950X's AVX-512 implementation is much better.

Detailed specs for a dozen Intel Arrow Lake desktop CPUs leak
By Jowi Morales published
Leakers shared detailed specifications of the upcoming Intel Arrow Lake processors, points to an October 10 launch for the Intel Core Ultra Series 200 chips.

Intel's Arrow Lake chips may have lower clock speeds than previous CPUs
By Aaron Klotz published
Arrow Lake clock speeds have been leaked, suggesting that the maximum clock speeds for Arrow Lake CPUs will be worse than Raptor Lake CPUs.

Intel Arrow Lake CPUs benchmarked on Z890 motherboards
By Aaron Klotz published
Intel's Core Ultra 7 265KF and Core Ultra 5 245KF appear on Geekbench 6 database.
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