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There’s an understandable excitement around comparisons of top chips, like the Intel Core i9-12900K vs. AMD Ryzen 5950X, but for most CPU buyers, the midrange is much more important. That’s where the ...

It's time we finally check out the Ryzen 5 5600X, the most affordable Ryzen 5000 series processor announced to date. Positioned as a mainstream part, it's coming in at $300, a 20% premium over the ...

Rocket Lake is finally here and today we're checking out the new Core i5-11600K. That's right, for this generation we're skipping a day-one look at the Core i9 and even the Core i7 part, and instead ...

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As exciting as the new Intel Alder Lake 12600K and 12900K CPUs are, most gamers don’t need anything quite so powerful. The more affordable Core-i5 models are likely to be the standouts of their ...

Based off the same Zen 3, 7nm architecture as the rest of the Ryzen 5000 stack, the Ryzen 5 5600G is compatible with AMD's venerable Socket AM4, though as we'll discuss in a moment, the motherboard ...