A former project manager and long-term tech addict, Richard has been covering the industry for over a decade from phones, to gaming, and PCs, and everywhere in-between. There was a time when many ...

Fancy, expensive processors are fun, but for most people who just want to build a decent middle-of-the-road PC for gaming (and anything else), the best advice is usually to buy a Core i5 or Ryzen 5 ...

[Editors' Note, Aug 2, 2024: The emergence in mid-2024 of a microcode bug related to voltage has led us, at the moment, to take a wait-and-see stance on recommending any Intel 13th and 14th Gen ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Intel’s first Core processors made their debut in 2006. At this point, children born in the same year are almost old enough to drink. Over a dozen generations of Intel Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 ...

Intel's October 2017 update to the Core i5 (see on Amazon(Opens in a new window)) and Core i7 (see on Amazon(Opens in a new window)) were the first major shift in core counts since Sandy Bridge in ...

Intel’s 12th-gen Core i5-12600K offers stunning performance over its AMD Ryzen rival—and offers consumers unheard-of value too. If there was ever a CPU designed solely for revenge, Intel’s 12th-gen ...

It hasn’t been a great time to build a computer on a budget. Some of that is due to ongoing supply issues and a particularly nasty GPU shortage (albeit one that may be very gradually easing). And some ...

We were pleasantly surprised recently when we looked at the Core i7-10710U. This was the first demonstration of what Intel can still do on 14nm to squeeze more performance. The 10710U packs six cores ...