Just five years ago, debating the merits of a 6-core CPU versus an 8-core model wasn’t possible. We were all stuck with 4-core chips at a consumer level—to break past that barrier, you had to pay ...

Being a PC user comes with a certain level of anxiety. "Am I settling for an underpowered GPU?", "Should I spend the premium on that fancy motherboard?", and "Is it finally time to buy an 8-core CPU ...

Having reviewed Ryzen 5000 12-core and 16-core models, today we're testing the Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD's latest 8-core CPU. So far we've been impressed by the Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X, so let's continue to ...

AMD announced its first barrage of Zen 5 CPUs at Computex, unveiling a four-chip lineup ranging from a six-core CPU to a 16-core chip. Those CPUs have yet to officially launch, though, as they're ...

At some point you may have heard someone say that for gaming you need X amount of cores. Typical examples include "6 is more than enough cores," or "you need a minimum of 8 cores for gaming," due to ...

One question left over from the Tiger Lake launch was whether these new chips would be limited to just four cores or not. The answer? No. Eight core chips haven't been formally announced yet, but they ...

The next-gen Intel Lunar Lake CPUs will be for ultra-low mobile power systems, which will succeed the current-gen Core Ultra 100U "Meteor Lake" CPUs that we've seen deployed since CES 2024 earlier ...

The company says its new 14th Gen Core CPUs are for embedded systems and not intended for consumer use, but there's no reason at all that gamers couldn't buy one of these new CPUs. The new flagship ...

There are eight-core+ CPUs available. And yes, ESXi is Hyper-Threading aware and doesn't count HT as another core. Im ok with it only using 6 of the 8 cores. for the time being im just trying to ...