Telemetry results from CPU-Z for April 1 show that eight-core processors are finally more popular than six-core chips. Monitor and GPU adoption also saw notable swings.

K. Following my review last year, I kept it in my PC for further testing and general usage, with my testing intensifying ...

Surprisingly, the most popular CPU to appear in testing was the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. In a way ... and they’re still picked up for both daily drivers and gaming purposes, not to mention all the ...

Naughty Dog’s emotional epic arrives on PC with impressive visual fidelity and strong optimisation across a range of GPUs.

but much diminished on a more capable chip like the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. It would be nice if they were not there at all of course, but they are not exactly peppering the experience and they are rather ...

AMD just announced over a dozen new laptop CPUs, which will appear in over 150 new laptops being announced at CES 2025 and later this year, including a new 3D V-Cache chip for gaming laptops and some ...

The board appeared on Reddit with a damaged AMD Ryzen 9800X3D gaming CPU, and is one of several ASRock boards featured in threads about 9800X3D CPUs that have stopped working. For example ...

Sounds of PR silence After more than 100 Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors keeled over, mostly while paired with ASRock boards, AMD has finally broken its vow of silence—only to point fingers at “memory ...

Original article follows... Despite being one of the best processors on the market for PC gamers, AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been having a rough time since its launch in November last year.