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For folks building PCs on an extremely tight budget, the current-generation platforms from both AMD and Intel are still pretty expensive. Socket AM4 systems can be had for half the price or less, and they still offer great performance in...
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Gigabyte looks set to be the first vendor to launch a Mini-ITX form factor motherboard featuring the AMD A620 chipset. This new board will enable the most compact of budget AM5 builds using Ryzen 7000 processors (Zen 4) up to 65W...
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If you follow hardware news at all, you are surely aware of the "exploding CPU" issue surrounding the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and certain Socket AM5 motherboards, particularly (but not exclusively) those from the ASUS ROG family. If...
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If you follow tech news at all, you're almost certainly already aware of the much-publicized issue where certain AMD motherboards, when configured a certain way, can very literally cause the Socket AM5 CPU to explode, destroying the...
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If you're just joining us, the actual silicon that will comprise Intel's 14th-generation processors has been in question for a while now. Leaked roadmaps have indicated that Intel has both disaggregated Meteor Lake processors on the way...
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AMD has issued a statement addressing the alarming reports of dead Ryzen 7000X3D processors in relation to burned motherboard sockets and bulging CPU pin pads. The statement confirms AMD is actively investigating the problem and...
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For a long time, your choice of motherboard has had very little impact on your CPU's performance. That's changed recently with the growing popularity of >150W CPUs; buying a cheapo mobo could sharply limit your CPU's clocks due to the...
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You should always be cautious about where and how you obtain BIOS updates for your devices, though that's especially true right now for anyone who owns a product from MSI, be it a motherboard, graphics card, or any other hardware with...
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AMD's Ryzen "X3D" processors are created by very literally attaching a second piece of silicon that is almost entirely L3 cache memory to the top of a regular Ryzen processor die, just like the picture above implies. It is...
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Going for a budget model of any product means making compromises: budget autos skimp on creature comforts and cargo room, budget motels eschew extra services (and often cleanliness), and budget motherboards usually miss out on...
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Memory bandwidth isn't that big of a deal on desktop platforms. Client tasks like office work, web browsing, and even computer games are usually much more sensitive to memory latency than memory performance, which is why AMD sees such huge...
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You probably know Gigabyte most as a motherboard vendor, but it has a whole server arm known relatively recently as "Giga Computing." As part of an announcement for new Ryzen-based server systems, Giga Computing put out a press...
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AMDs first true entry-level AM5 motherboard has been pictured, carrying the all-new A620 chipset. The motherboard featured is known as the ASRock A620M-HDV/M.2 and is a baseline micro-atx motherboard with minimal rear I/O, just two DDR5...
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Now is a great time to build a PC from scratch or to upgrade an existing one to the latest generation silicon from AMD and Intel. Both offer competitive solutions for a wide range of tasksgaming, content creation, productivity, general...
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A new report confirms that MSI will be discontinuing the production of several DDR4-based Z790 and B760 motherboards in the future. Affected SKUs include the MPG Z790 Edge WiFi DDR4, Pro Z790-A WiFi DDR4, Pro Z790-P DDR4, and the...
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ASUS has shared a sneak peek of 48GB DDR5 modules operating at a functional state on one of its AM5 motherboards featuring an unknown AGESA microcode update. The test setup used included a Ryzen 9 7950X and four 48GB DIMMs...
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A team of ASUS overclockers has managed to push one of Intel's new Xeon W9-3495X workstation CPUs to absolutely absurd power levels with liquid nitrogen overclocking. Elmor, one of the team members shared a video of the team running...
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Some AMD Radeon 780M benchmarks have surfaced in the Geekbench benchmarks browser. According to the listing, the iGPU is part of an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS APU. This is a Ryzen mobile chip from the Ryzen 7040 Series...
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The race to deliver increasingly high-speed 24GB and 48GB memory kits is heating up. Crucial got the party started by being the first to deliver 24GB and 48GB DDR5 kits in January, followed by Corsair unveiling 24GB and 48GB Vengeance...
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Until very recently, DDR5 DIMMs came in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB capacitiesat least as long as we're talking about the kind of unbuffered memory you'll find in most non-server PCs. You may have heard that larger 24GB and 48GB capacities are now...
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AMD has partnered with several retail stores to offer discounted combo deals that bundle its Ryzen 7000 series processors based on Zen 4 with compatible socket AM5 motherboards. Some of the bundles also include a kit of DDR5...
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Back in the day, liquid cooling meant "custom loop," but you only needed to worry about the two or three processors at the most. These days, when you're doing custom-loop liquid-cooling, you need to cool almost every major component on...
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