AMD has announced the Ryzen 7 9850X3D at CES 2026, expanding its lineup of gaming-focused processors. The new chip is a ...

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Once upon a time, not overclocking your CPU meant you were missing out on a major free performance boost. A smidge of manual tweaking and a bigger cooler would have yielded you a significantly faster ...

The best gaming CPU used to be one of the most hotly contested titles in the industry, but as things currently stand, AMD sweeps the board in all categories. It's not that Intel's chips are bad, it's ...

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Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...

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Six years after its initial launch, auto-cpufreq version 3.0.0 is now available. For those wondering, auto-cpufreq is an ...