Your choice of processor will fundamentally affect your PC’s frame rates, so you want to make sure you buy the very best gaming CPU you can afford when you’re speccing up a new rig.

From budget-friendly processors to core-heavy monsters, we'll help you find the ideal CPU for your specific needs, whether it's productivity, gaming, or both. Let's dive in.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is an 8-core 16-thread CPU that is indisputably the fastest gaming CPU money can buy currently – that is if you can find it on a shelf physically or virtually.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the current best CPU for gaming, launched just a little while ago and its impeccable performance has already caused shortages. AMD says the level of demand is partially down to ...

AMD's latest 3D V-Cache CPU released in November to widespread acclaim, with many calling it the best processor for gaming.

You can overclock the memory controller in those CPUs to use even faster RAM, either by playing around with memory settings in the BIOS or just by enabling XMP, DOCP, or EXPO. Unf ...

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been a phenomenal success among what had been a fairly underwhelming Zen 5 lineup – we called it the ...