Published Jun 10, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT Hamlin has been in the tech field for over seven years. Since 2017, his work has appeared on MakeUseOf , OSXDaily, Beebom, MashTips, and more. He served as the Senior Editor for MUO for two years before joining XDA. He uses a Windows PC for desktop use and a MacBook for traveling, but dislikes some of the quirks of macOS. You're more likely to catch him at the gym or on a flight than anywhere else. The GTX 1080 Ti is widely considered a legendary GPU among PC enthusiasts, not just because it set the benchmark for value, but because it stayed relevant for many years. Even though Nvidia introduced newer RTX cards that supported hardware-accelerated ray tracing and DLSS, many gamers simply didn't feel compelled to upgrade. That's why I think the Ryzen 7 5800X3D deserves a similar reputation in the CPU world. It's the CPU that kept AM4 relevant all these years, and it makes sense why AMD relaunched it this year.…