Daily News Stuff 17 May 2026 (opens in new tab)

Polypole Edition Top Story If you're looking for an inexpensive CPU to soothe the bite of memory and storage prices, should you choose AMD's 7600X3D, or Intel's new 250K? (Tom's Hardware) Both have six full-speed cores and the AMD chip has an extra 64MB of cache, making it 10% faster for games. However, the Intel chip is 28% faster for single-threaded productivity tasks, which don't often take great advantage of the larger cache. And for multi-threaded tasks the Intel chip is 114% faster. On ...