Dylan Miles

The CPU socket that simply won’t die is AM4. AMD continues to release new processors for the long-lasting system, offering upgrade choices for consumers back to the Ryzen 1000 series, almost ten years after it originally appeared in motherboards. However, the most recent chip, which is part of the gaming-focused X3D family, may be difficult to locate. The six-core Ryzen 3 chip, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, has recently appeared on AMD’s marketing website. At least at debut, the listing states…

You might want to increase your PC’s memory as soon as possible if it’s an older model. As the main memory vendors gradually stop producing DDR4 DRAM in favor of DDR5 DRAM, prices for DDR4 memory are predicted to rise significantly. The latter is the reason for alarm. Customers have reportedly received end-of-life notices from Samsung and SK Hynix regarding the depletion of DDR4 memory for PCs. Digitimes, via Tom’s Hardware, reports that Micron, the final holdout, has now followed…

The architecture that links graphics cards and SSDs, PCI Express 5.0, has become synonymous with high-end PCs in recent years. With the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) reaching a significant milestone this year to provide the higher-bandwidth PCI Express 6 to PCs, that is almost about to change. The majority of today’s PCI SIG news is theoretical in nature; the SIG is establishing the foundation for PCIe 8.0 and has publicly announced PCIe 7.0, which is anticipated to be released…

Nvidia dominates the desktop graphics card market, despite gamers’ complaints about declining value and growing costs. As of the first quarter of 2025, a research organization claims that Big Green holds over 90% of the market following a sharp decline from rival AMD. By many measures, Nvidia is already on the verge of becoming the desktop GPU monopoly, or has already done so. Nvidia holds 92 percent of the desktop graphics market share for the quarter that ended in March,…