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AMD’s new X100 chip lineup puts Strix Halo into robots

By Jake Roach Published

AMD takes on Intel (and Nvidia) in the robot wars.

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Best Thermal Pastes
Best Thermal Paste for CPUs 2025: 90 TIM Compounds Tested and Ranked

By Paul Alcorn Last updated

We tested 37 different thermal compounds with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X and over 90 thermal compounds with Intel Core i9 CPUs to help you find the best one to help cool your CPU.

Thermal Paste
Best Budget CPUs
Best Budget CPUs of 2026, Benchmarked and Ranked

By Paul Alcorn, Jake Roach Last updated

You can get a surprisingly powerful processor on the cheap. We've tested several cheap budget CPUs to help you find the right one for your needs and budget.

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Best Power Supplies
Best Power Supplies 2026

By E. Fylladitakis Last updated

Here are the best power supplies for gaming PCs. These PSUs offer the best reliability, performance and protection for your PC components.

Power Supplies
GPU Benchmarks and Performance Hierarchy
The GPU benchmarks hierarchy 2026

By Jeffrey Kampman Last updated

We've run hundreds of GPU benchmarks on Nvidia, AMD, and Intel graphics cards and ranked them in our comprehensive hierarchy.

GPUs
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Best CPU Coolers 2026: AIO and Air Coolers

By Joe Shields Last updated

These are the best air and liquid/AIO CPU coolers we've tested, for all consumer systems, from small form-factor builds to overclocked big rigs.

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EPYC Turin
Researchers bypass AMD SEV-SNP protections with “Fabricked” Infinity Fabric attack

By Etiido Uko Published

Confidential computing protections can reportedly be broken before they even finish initializing

PC Components
AMD Ryzen 9000 Pro
AMD expands its Ryzen 9000 PRO lineup with six new SKUs, now featuring 3D V-Cache for the first time

By Hassam Nasir Published

Ryzen PRO series gets a major upgrade.

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Intel vs AMD
Intel vs AMD: Which CPUs Are Better in 2026?

By Jake Roach Last updated

We wade into the endless debate: Who makes the best CPU, AMD or Intel? Here's the blow-by-blow in ten categories.

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Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 listing on Amazon.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 appears on Amazon with $1,000 pre-order price

By Jake Roach Last updated

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has started appearing at retailers, with Amazon currently offering the CPU at $1,000 — $100 above the suggest retail pricing.

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