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A senior evergreen reporter at XDA Developers serving up reviews, buying guides, deals, and more on laptops, PC hardware, and smartphones that you care about. He's been covering the computing and ...

AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 7 5800X3D are great upgrade options for any gamer with a Ryzen 7 1800X still knocking around. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

AMD recently expanded its Ryzen arsenal with a handful of new and less expensive processor models, including a trio of Ryzen 5000 series CPUs. One of the new additions is the Ryzen 7 5700X. It ...

If you've been itching to build a new PC around Zen 3, or upgrade an existing one, good news—at least one of AMD's latest generation of Ryzen processors is markedly easier to obtain at the moment.

AMD’s Zen 3 Ryzen 9 chips – the 12-core 5900X and 16-core 5950X – have proven to be winners in their respective market segments. But selling for £520 and £750 respectively, there is need for lower ...

Ryzen 7, for the first two generations, were the flagship products. With Matisse, this changed with the introduction of Ryzen 9. Since then, the X700 and X800 products have filled the gap between the ...