The CPU is the beating heart of a desktop computer. Whether it’s a blazing-fast gaming rig or a workstation designed for crunching through heavy multi-threaded workloads, having enough CPU grunt on hand has always been crucial. While the heady days of the so-called Megahertz War are well and truly behind us, Intel and AMD have continued to push each other to new heights with each CPU generation, improving single- and multi-core performance with each step of the way — even if AMD looks like it has the upper hand for now….

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