TL;DR: A Reddit user reported a burned AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and AM5 socket, likely due to installation error. The user experienced "00" postcodes, and ...

The PC scene is really heating up. With Arm-based processors from Qualcomm and Apple offering stark competition against the conventional x86-64 world, and with AI being such a focus of so many players ...

Intel versus AMD used to feel like an easy call, but building a PC nowadays means looking past old assumptions and comparing what each brand does best.

Intel's first socketed microprocessors came in a dual in-line package (DIP) with 40 connectors. The i486 used a variety of sockets, but the most popular had 237 contacts. AMD's "Socket A" for the ...

As the cheapest X3D chip yet available for the AM5 platform, the 7500X3D is fantastic for most games, but weak elsewhere.

One of the best things about building with AMD hardware in the last few years has been the longevity of the AM4 processor socket, which was the standard for Ryzen CPUs for five years. AMD is hoping to ...

Several Venice Zen 6 engineering samples were discovered on OpenBenchmark.org, featuring core counts of up to 192 cores.

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James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...

Rahim is a Senior Tech/Commerce Writer at Valnet and builds PCs & networking solutions on demand. Whether It's your GPU, CPU, Display, or just an SSD upgrade, expect him to have a well-researched ...

AMD’s X3D-series Ryzen chips have become popular with PC gamers because games in particular happen to benefit disproportionately from the chips’ extra 64MB of L3 cache memory. But that extra memory ...