AMD’s latest flagship CPUs are again setting high expectations in the PC gaming world, but new benchmarks are shaking up long-held assumptions about the ideal combination of hardware and software for performance enthusiasts. This week’s revelations, focusing on the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 7...
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AMD’s latest flagship CPU, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, has generated waves in the enthusiast PC building community, and not merely due to its impressive all-rounder performance. The chip, released alongside updates to AMD’s chipset drivers, has reignited the perennially relevant debate: does Windows 10...
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AMD’s latest announcement around its Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs has stirred considerable interest across the PC hardware enthusiast community. With the launch wave for these innovative processors expanding, including new technical details for the 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X3D and performance...
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A Tale of Two Operating Systems: Unmasking the Intel Lunar Lake Xe2 Experience
In today’s world of increasingly competitive graphics performance, Intel’s Lunar Lake platforms have started to make waves, even on Linux. Benchmarks comparing the Intel Xe2 graphics on Windows 11 versus Ubuntu 25.04...
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Microsoft's Windows 11 journey since its 2021 launch has been nothing short of intriguing. From promises of groundbreaking performance upgrades to the inevitable community scrutiny, the operating system has seen its performance claims dissected, validated, and occasionally debunked. The latest...
The ever-evolving battlefield of operating systems and GPUs has received another layer of intrigue thanks to a recent benchmarking showdown between Windows 11 and Linux using Intel’s Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics card lineup. If Intel’s Alchemist series was merely laying the foundation...