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Fresh details on the Ryzen 7 9800X3D have leaked, this time via hardware company, Maxsun. Support pages revealed key specs of AMD's new CPU.

During the Computex Keynote, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su made waves by unveiling the Ryzen 9000 series of AM5 CPUs. The upcoming series introduces the new Zen 5 core architecture and is set to hit the market next month. While the core count and clock rates remain unchanged in the …

An experiment has shown that using AMD Ryzen processors' 3D V-Cache as a RAM disc is possible. As you might've guessed, such a RAM disc is extremely fast, offering sequential read and write speeds over ten times faster than the best PCIe 5.0 SSDs. The experiment began with an unusual …

Intel is planning to debut the new Arrow Lake-S architecture next year. Expected to bring considerable improvements over Raptor Lake, Arrow Lake will feature new P- and E-cores known as Lion Cove and Skymont, respectively. Notably, the former is expected to have a significantly bigger L2 cache, hopefully bringing with …

We're still a while away from Intel's 13th Gen “Raptor Lake” processor launch, but new leaks are coming through pretty regularly. The latest gives us a small look at the flagship Raptor Lake CPU's new cache configuration.  A quick look at the screenshot shared by @OneRaichu suggests this is a …

Following a recent cyberattack on Nvidia, there have been a lot of leaks, ranging from DLSS source code to upcoming GPU specs. As dataminers continue to dig, we're learning new information, with the latest findings pointing to Nvidia utilising its own ‘Infinity Cache'-like tech for RTX 40 series graphics cards.  …

By now, it's clear that a large amount of cache memory can dramatically improve CPU performance. We've seen it firsthand when AMD moved from Zen+ to Zen2, as well as with the recently-announced Ryzen 7 5800X3D. It seems Intel is set to follow suit, giving its Raptor Lake processors a …

Just last week, Intel kicked off its rollout of Optane products, featuring its long in development 3D XPoint technology. It all began with the Optane DX P4800X SSD for data centres but this week, Intel is launching something more consumer-oriented. In April, Intel will begin shipping Optane Memory in 16GB …

If you're looking to buy a PS4 when it's released here on the 29th November then you'll be aware that games will have a mandatory install. With as much as 50GB of data on each of those slow spinning Blu-Ray discs, you might be thinking that it'll take a long, …

ADATA is targeting Intel Smart Response Technology users with its 24GB SP300 mSATA SSD. Can the SandForce SF-2141 controller and SATA 3Gb/s boundary-pushing speeds lure value-orientated and budget-conscious consumers? With an increasingly widespread adoption of the emerging mSATA interface by motherboard and laptop companies, many SSD manufacturers have designed low-cost options that make …

Whether you’re building a new system or trying to re-energise an existing rig, one of the most annoying things to get wrong is the boot time. There are loads of things that can cause a slow boot and ALL of them are bloody annoying. So is it a case of …