But if you have an AM3+ or older motherboard (or older Intel chips), you’ll likely need to spend on a new CPU and motherboard, increasing the cost of upgrading your system to play the latest titles.

The first CPU to reach a clock speed of 4 GHz was the Pentium 4 570 released in November 2004 as part of Intel's NetBurst microarchitecture ... it used the AM3+ socket and had a Thermal Design ...

While 2023 was a tough year for chip suppliers, AMD finished it with a smaller decline in CPU shipments for servers, PCs and embedded/IoT than Intel did in those segments. AMD reached a new record ...

With that said, the CPU market is in a confusing state for casual buyers, with multiple generations in play and great-sounding options available from both AMD and Intel. With this in mind ...

The company’s Xeon 6 CPUs with performance cores, code-named Granite Rapids, “has been a good first step” after they debuted late last year, according to Holthaus. Intel is also “making ...