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How should you keep your CPU cool? The more powerful your CPU is, the bigger and better cooler you'll need, but rest assured our guide will cover many great options at every size and price point.

AMD's new Radeon RX 7600 XT is basically an RX 7600 with a 16 GB VRAM buffer, but is that worth paying a premium for? Measuring the benefits of extra VRAM can be complex as we'll explore in this review.

Usually we recommend PC gamers on a budget to adopt the min/max strategy. This means spending as little as possible on almost everything, except the GPU, where most of the budget should be allocated.

The Radeon 6500 XT was a weak product at launch. We predicted it'd become nearly unusable in the near future even at lowest settings. Some 18 months after release, how is it performing in today's games?

It's time to take an updated look at the gaming performance of the Core i9-14900K and Ryzen 7 7800X3D, comparing head-to-head AMD and Intel's best gaming processors to see which one you should buy.

To wrap up our monitor recommendations for the year, we're revisiting the best monitors available at each price point ranging from $100 to over $1,000 in $100 increments.

After reviewing CPUs throughout the year and revisiting the most interesting matchups post-launch, in this buying guide we put it all together to keep your CPU shopping as simple as possible.

It's time we take a fresh look at DDR4 vs DDR5 memory performance using the Core i9-14900K. We're benchmarking with fast DDR5-7200 and DDR4-4000 memory, noting that these days DDR5 is cheaper than DDR4.

If you're in the market for a new system or platform upgrade, and you've decided to go with Intel's 14th-gen Core CPU platform, these are the new Z790 motherboards you want to be aware of.

Let's revisit the gaming performance of two budget CPUs from years past: the Ryzen 5 3600 and Core i5-9600K to see how they compare in today's games but also determine which platform has aged best.

For gamers and mainstream users, it's a great time to build a PC. The TechSpot PC Buying Guide includes four builds for different budgets and purposes.

A look at the CPU market and pricing to see what would truly constitute a Black Friday sale and give our advice on the kind of deals you can expect during the holiday shopping season.

Buying a desktop PC? You can build one yourself or you can buy a "pre-built." The latter can definitely make sense in some cases as we'll show you, just make sure you pick a good one.

With competition at an all-time high, the ongoing rivalry between AMD and Intel has resulted in competitive pricing and performance across the board, which is excellent news for consumers.

When it's time for a CPU upgrade, it's crucial to assess your system and consider your specific needs first. In this article we ask five questions as a guide to assist you in choosing a new processor.

Let's pretend for a minute it's 2022 again, and the Radeon RX 7900 XT is just getting released. But in this scenario, the GPU is introduced with 9 months of driver development and $150 slashed off the MSRP.

We've spent a ton of time testing the latest AMD and Nvidia mainstream GPUs, meant to be capable of 1440p gaming, however to summarize our experience, these new products have been extremely underwhelming.

What if you want to upgrade an existing gaming PC? What are the options, and do they make sense? The big problem is that current-gen AMD and Nvidia GPUs don't move the needle forward.