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James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon.

Both chip vendors have spewed forth a blizzard of announcements, though no actual quad-core microprocessors have yet shipped. Intel disclosed at its late-September developer forum that it's giving its ...

If you’ve ever shoehorned random hardware into a gaming system, this one’s for you. A creative thinker named RandomGaminginHD took a shot at playing current PC games with a rig featuring an AMD Epyc ...

Loyal HotHardware readers, you know all about RISC-V, right? Well, just in case you don't, a brief refresher is in order. RISC-V is an instruction set architecture like ARM or x86, but unlike those, ...

Mini Review Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz is a high-end Processor based on the 45nm Core micro-architecture. It offers 4 Physical Cores (4 Logical), clocked at 2.83Hz and 12MB of L2 Cache. Among its many ...

With the growth of mobile devices and ultra-thin notebooks, not to mention the growing focus on more energy-efficient data centers, microprocessors and graphics processors have evolved at a fast pace.

A rack comprised of two Hygon server-based processors was spotted on the Geekbench browser featuring a run of Geekbench's new AI-based benchmark. Benchleaks on X reports that the chip's CPUID name is ...

In a recent gauntlet of tests comparing AMD's quad-core Opteron processor (i.e. Barcelona) to Intel's quad-core Xeon (i.e. Tigerton), the Xeon delivered up to 14 percent more throughput, but the ...

In context: For many DIY PC enthusiasts, dual-core desktop CPUs may appear as remnants of a bygone era, but both Intel and AMD persist in offering entry-level processors equipped with just a couple of ...