This month I've been testing: Gaming mice and Elden Ring. Two things which haven't normally been of great interest to me, but the former has shown that they're no longer awkward, niche things and are genuinely great to use. The latter is still the same as it's ever been, though, for better or worse.
AMD is well and truly on top of its game. Want the best gaming CPU possible? Get an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Need to throw lots of cores at a rendering project? Use an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X or a Threadripper Pro 7995WX, if money isn't an object. The same is true for servers, AI mega-computers, consoles, and handheld gaming PCs—AMD rules the roost. And yet with its forthcoming Zen 5 chips, AMD is also driving an increasingly larger wedge between the CPUs it has for mobile platforms and those for the common desktop PC.
