Hardware

There isn't much that hasn't been said about AMD's notorious FX processors. They've been covered time and time again, and it seems like every look back the negative reception never gets better. The short version is, these CPUs were much maligned for being late to market, hot and power hungry, but above all else their performance was second-rate compared to Intel's options at the time, and they're not winning any awards today either. The generally accepted reason for this dismal performance was a controversial clustered multi-threading approach, which involved sharing a few major resources between cores. However, there is an anomaly out there in the FX series that could change the discussion.

A total of six pipes run up the sides and the middle of the fin stack

In context: Cooler Master just launched its latest coolers featuring its "3D heatpipe" technology. First unveiled in May during Computex 2025, the company's new Hyper 212 3DHP greatly improves heatsink efficiency by routing additional heatpipes through the center of the fin stack instead of just the edges. [...]

Nvidia is also investing $5 billion into Intel

What just happened? Intel has received another massive investment from an unlikely source: Nvidia. Team Green is purchasing $5 billion in Intel common stock at $23.28 per share, part of a collaboration that will see the two companies jointly develop x86 system-on-chips – called Intel x86 RTX SoCs – that integrate Intel CPUs and Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets for a wide range of PCs. Intel will also be building custom x86 data center CPUs for Nvidia to integrate into its AI infrastructure platforms. [...]

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