Therein lies an important caveat. As you dive further down the list of Amazon's best-selling CPUs, Intel is more widely ...

However, it seems those stock issues have now been remedied, and the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now widely available in the US ...

Several cases of Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips mysteriously dying surfaced earlier this year. One Redditor said he built a brand-new PC with an Asrock X870 motherboard that ran smoothly without ...

Asrock tested a motherboard in which a Ryzen 7 9800X3D suffered heat damage. Meanwhile, a new MSI case emerged two weeks ago.

TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a truly excellent gaming CPU ... (Remember that its predecessor, AMD's Ryzen 7800X3D, while also a great gaming chip, didn't do so well with other workloads).