With the 12700K, you also get the benefit of having some choice for potential component pairings, as it supports either DDR4 or DDR5 RAM for instance, as long as you get the right motherboard.

UPDATE: MSI, the maker of the motherboard at the center of both incidents, has issued a statement on the failures—or one of them, anyway. The statement is as follows: Recently, we received a ...

Is AMD's hot new Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU going into meltdown? Two reports from gamers experiencing dramatic CPU "burn outs" involving AMD's new wonder chip have emerged in recent days (via ...