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AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D review: the fastest gaming CPU, but not by much

Faster clock speeds cement Ryzen 7 9850X3D as ruler of the frame rate roost, but its leads are marginal across the board.

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Intel XeSS 3 multi frame gen is now officially out in the wild, thanks to this driver

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Intel has no plans for Strix Halo competitor, says AMD iGPU tech is “not that competitive”

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AMD claims DDR5 speed has practically no effect on Ryzen 7 9850X3D gaming performance

AMD claims its new Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor is barely impacted by memory speed, losing less than 1% performance using DDR5-4800 kits.
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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 appears in EEC filing, further igniting hopes of CPU’s existence

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Enterprise SSDs hit 16x HDD cost, requiring complete budget revisions

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Nvidia GPU MSRPs “no longer exist”, claims der8auer, as alleged cashback scheme ends

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Asus investigates AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D failure reports

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AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D specs, price, and release date

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85% of Game Pass titles on Xbox App are now compatible with Windows 11 on Arm

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