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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D beats the 7800X3D by 26% in leaked Blender benchmarks
By Hassam Nasir published
Improved thermals and higher clocks thanks to AMD's 2nd Generation V-Cache allow the Ryzen 7 9800X3D to pull ahead of its predecessor by almost 26% in Blender.

Intel Arrow Lake CPUs have more than 1,851 pads under the chip
By Hassam Nasir published
Members of MSI Japan manually counted all pads below an Arrow Lake CPU and found the final result to be greater than 1851.

Z890 motherboards are having instability issues with Windows 11 24H2
By Christopher Harper published
Intel Z890 motherboards have issues with the latest Windows 11 update and Intel Xe iGPUs.

Extreme overclocker recommends heating Arrow Lake CPUs to 165 degrees Celsius before delidding
By Jowi Morales published
YouTube creator der8auer shared this crucial tip if you want to safely delid your brand-new Intel Core Ultra processor.

Ryzen 7 9800X3D trails Core i9-14900K in leaked PugetBench benchmarks
By Aaron Klotz published
AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D was benchmarked in PugetBench and performed excellently against the Ryzen 7 9700X and even the Ryzen 9 7950X3D.

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D rumored to reverse the 3D stacking hierarchy
By Hassam Nasir published
Leakers allege that AMD is reversing the structure of its 3D V-Cache equipped chips with the Ryzen 9000X3D series.

Core Ultra 7 265 specifications exposed in a new benchmark
By Matthew Connatser published
Benchleaks has uncovered an unannounced Core Ultra 7 265 in a Geekbench 6 GPU result.

Intel Panther Lake will allegedly reintegrate the memory controller into the compute tile
By Hassam Nasir published
Intel is rumored to combine the IMC and cores in a single tile with Panther Lake but separate them again in Nova Lake.
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