CPU
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X
It has long been a staple part of our modern-day testbeds. AMD’s Ryzen 9 9900X toes the line between too power hungry, toasty, and not having enough multi-threaded grunt. Based off AMD’s Zen 5 architecture, on the AM5 socket, AMD’s packed this thing with 12 cores and 24 threads clocking along nicely at 5.6 GHz at max boost. All of that built out on TSMC’s 4nm FinFET process tech.