THE BEST CPUS FOR GAMINGHigh-EndIntel Core i9-7920XIf you're looking for an insane amount of power, and you're an Intel fan, look no further than the company's 12-core monster built on the Skylake-X architecture. This processor has a max clock speed of 4.4GHz and a 16.5MB cache. All you need to take this beauty home is a motherboard with the X299 chipset and LGA 2066 socket. While the power offered by this processor is definitely alluring since it lets your PC handle a 24-thread workload, you'll pay through the nose for all that horsepower as it's about £820.60. Not surprisingly a CPU this potent requires a lot of power, as its TDP is an eye-popping 140 watts. Pro tip: include some money in your upgrade budget for a liquid cooling setup.AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920XOn the AMD side of the house, my pick for the beefiest processor is the 12-core 1920X, built on AMD's Zen architecture. It's the same number of cores and the …