A PC DIY vendor company sparks controversy by claiming AMD Ryzen 5000 chips have an unusually high failure rate. I also received a bad CPU in November, and it was a hassle to build with and return.

Whether you're a creative or a professional, if you use CPU-intensive, multi-core applications on a regular basis you probably need a processor that can keep up. That means one with as many cores and ...

Update: We originally wrote this analysis before we had actual hardware in hand. Since then, we’ve put several 9th gen laptops to the test. If you want to see hard evidence of what we forecast here, ...