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We're rounding up the best deals on CPUs.
Intel's fastest mid-range gaming chip plummets to an all-time low of $175
The Core i5-13600KF is available at an all-time low price of just $175 at Amazon - offering great performance at an affordable price.
The 8-Core Ryzen 7 5700X drops to all-time low of $130 for Black Friday — the lowest-priced octo-core on the market
AMD's Zen 3-based Ryzen 7 5700X has dropped to an all-time low of $130 - offering eight cores and sixteen threads.
CPU Benchmarks and Hierarchy 2024: CPU Rankings
All of today's desktop CPU benchmarks compared, including Intel's 13th-Gen Core series and AMD's Ryzen Zen 4 and Threadripper.
Where to buy AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D — the new king of gaming CPUs
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor is AMDs latest CPU release, but where can you pick one up, and are they in stock?
Despite restrictions, Russia allegedly finds new way to produce sanctioned 48-core Baikal-S processors: Report
Baikal-S processors find their way to Russia after a two year hiatus despite restrictions by the U.S. government and Taiwanese authorities.
Chinese x86 eight-core Zhaoxin KX-7000 CPU lags behind AMD and Intel
Zhaoxin's KaiXian KX-7000/8 processor tested in various applications: still cannot compete against modern x86 processors from AMD and Intel.
x86 reigns supreme as Snapdragon X Elite chips captured just 0.8% of the market with 720,000 units sold in Q3 2024
Qualcomm is facing a lot of challenges in solidifying its position in the PC market - powering just 0.8% of all PCs sold in Q3 this year.
Core Ultra 5 225F barely outperforms Core i5-13600 in Geekbench — low-end Ultra 5 chip comes with six P-core and four E-cores
A benchmark result of Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 5 225F was discovered on Geekbench, featuring 10 cores in total and a benchmark scores very similar to the Core i5-13600.
