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When it comes to building a new system or upgrading an existing one, the AM4 socket has numerous options at various price points for users to select from. We are now seeing CPU prices come back down to earth - the flagship AMD Ryzen 9 5950X desktop processor is available for $749 at both Amazon and Newegg currently, and despite the obvious pitfalls in graphics card pricing, it's a better time to build a new PC right now than it has been during most months during 2021. There has also been a number of new 'X570S' models making its way into retail channels from all of the major vendors, with upgraded features such as Wi-Fi 6E and passively cooled chipsets. It's time to give...
Best Internal Hard Drives: August 2021
Data storage requirements have kept increasing over the last several years. While SSDs have taken over the role of the primary drive in most computing systems, hard drives continue...
14 by Ganesh T S on 8/30/2021
Best CPUs for Gaming: August 2021
Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data...
21 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/13/2021
Best Intel Motherboards: August 2021
Selecting a motherboard for your system can be an arduous task, due to the sheer volume of options to select from on any given desktop chipset. Focusing on Intel...
6 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/5/2021
Best Android Phones: July 2021
Much like June, July wasn’t very eventful in terms of smartphone releases, however what does seem to have happened is more substantial pricing changes across the high-end of the...
20 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/23/2021
Best CPUs for Workstations: June 2021
Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data...
54 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/10/2021
Best SSDs: May 2021
A solid state drive is often the most important component for making a PC feel fast and responsive; any PC still using a mechanical hard drive as its primary...
20 by Billy Tallis on 5/14/2021
Best Mechanical Keyboards: Holiday 2020
Continuing our run of holiday buyers' guides, today we're taking a look at peripherals. Considering that a PC’s peripherals can easily outlive the main system’s components and usually stay...
51 by E. Fylladitakis on 12/9/2020
Best PC Power Supplies: Holiday 2020
Now that you've picked out your CPU, it's time to start picking out the rest of your system components. And perhaps the most humble but overlooked of these components...
52 by E. Fylladitakis on 12/2/2020
Best Gaming Laptops: Holiday 2020
Along with our quarterly laptop guide, near the end of every year we also like to take a look at the state of the gaming laptop market. With a...
10 by Brett Howse on 11/25/2020
Best Laptops: Holiday 2020
It's time for our holiday look at the laptop market, and what a year 2020 has been in the laptop space. After starting out with a large number of...
31 by Brett Howse on 11/20/2020
Best Motherboards: Q1 2019
We're once again back with our quarterly look at the PC motherboard market. For the first quarter of this year there has been a lot of buzz around impending...
20 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/14/2019
Best Video Cards for Gaming: Q1 2019
For gaming PCs that push the pretty pixels on the screens, the video card is the most important component. And given the sheer amount of custom options, choosing the...
23 by Nate Oh on 3/11/2019
Best Consumer Hard Drives: Holiday 2018
Data storage requirements have kept increasing over the last several years. While SSDs have taken over the role of the primary drive in most computing systems, hard drives continue...
0 by Ganesh T S on 11/15/2018
Best CPUs for Gaming: Holiday 2018
Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data...
0 by Ian Cutress on 10/24/2018
Best CPUs for Gaming: Q3 2018
In our series of Best CPU guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended Gaming CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the...
1 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2018
Delidding The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G APU: How To Guide and Results
Delidding is a process with the aim being to reduce CPU core temperatures on processors with a less-than-ideal thermal interface between the silicon and headspreader. The benefits of delidding...
73 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/10/2018
Overclocking The AMD Ryzen APUs: Guide and Results
With AMD’s new launch of Raven Ridge APUs, the Ryzen 3 2200G ($99) and Ryzen 5 2400G ($169), AMD holds the current integrated graphics apex when directly compared against...
64 by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 4/16/2018
Best CPUs: August 2017
Our newest CPU Guide can be found here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9793/best-cpus Best CPUs, August 2017 Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give...
0 by Ian Cutress on 8/30/2017
Best CPUs Q2 2017
In our series of Buyer Guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of...
1 by Ian Cutress on 7/6/2017
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