We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Building your first computer is a memory worth cherishing for years, and the amount of research that goes into picking the right parts is what ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The CPU is the beating heart of a desktop computer. Whether it's a blazing-fast gaming rig or a workstation designed for crunching through ...

For as long as I’ve been building PCs, there’s been one number that always gets enthusiasts buzzing – core count. In most cases, every leap forward in desktop processors has been measured in how many ...

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 ...

AMD's Ryzen Master Game Mode is designed to boost CPU performance and offer you better gaming performance by limiting the number of CPU cores active during a gaming session. While games do benefit ...

TL;DR: AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D processors will offer gaming performance similar to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, with additional cores benefiting tasks requiring more CPU power. The 9950X3D ...