Shopper scores $1,000 in PC hardware for just $86 in a shocking pricing glitch — Newegg shrugs off massive loss and responds with a thumbs-up emoji

A Redditor only paid $86.98 for a Ryzen 5 7600X, a Gigabyte B850 Eagle motherboard, and a 32GB DDR5-6000 Corsair Vengeance RGB kit from Newegg. The CPU even included a free 240mm Cooler Master AIO worth $85 on its own. All…

11-month old Russian outfit claims it has developed 16-core and 32-core chips, flaunts Cyrillic-badged processors — chips appear to be sanctions-swerving rebadged Chinese Loongson processors

Russia-based Tramplin Electronics obtains samples of Loongson’s LS3C6000 processors with Cyrillic inscriptions, claims these are its own CPUs.

How to use Precision Boost Overdrive and Curve Optimizer to improve Ryzen CPU performance

Using Precision Boost Overdrive and Curve Optimizer, you can fine tune your processor’s voltage and power limits to achieve better efficiency and sustained boost speeds.

Intel announces Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs, claims 15% higher gaming performance and multi-threaded boost — Core Ultra 7 270K and Core Ultra 5 250K come with more cores, faster memory, and a price cut

Intel is introducing two new Arrow Lake CPUs under the Core Ultra 200S Plus banner, while slashing prices and adding more E-cores. The Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus are said to offer 15% better gaming p…

Intel Nova Lake CPU teaser lists official support for speedy DDR5-8000 RAM — B960 mini-PC’s upgraded power system signals Nova Lake’s higher power demands

ECS showcases revamped Liva P300 mini-PC for Intel’s upcoming Nova Lake processors, revealing some interesting features along the way.

Intel Panther Lake-H high-res die shot emerges — image show 18A compute tile, Xe3 GPU tile in new X-series processors

An enthusiast blogger published annotated die shots of Intel Panther Lake-H CPU: 16-core mobile processor with 12 Xe3 clusters and two Thunderbolt 5 ports examined.

Intel keeps socket LGA 1700 alive with new P-core-only CPUs — ‘Bartlett Lake’ is official, but targets embedded applications with up to 12 cores

Intel’s heavily-rumored Bartlett Lake 12P CPUs are finally official, with a P-core-only design that is compatible with LGA 1700 motherboards. However, they’re targeting embedded and edge applications, not a broad consumer …

Apple’s 18-core M5 Max beats 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench due to weak benchmark scaling — GPU performance is much less impressive [Updated]

Apple’s M5 Max processor shows unexpectedly high results in multi-thread workloads: an 18-core CPU beats a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench, but the built-in GPU fails to beat the GeForce RTX 5090.

PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD’s Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose

Today in the year 2000, AMD shipped an undisputable milestone processor, its 1 GHz Athlon CPU. Thus, the Gigahertz PC era was born on Monday, March 6, 2000.