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Aaron Klotz - Tue, Aug 22, 2023
A tweet from hardware leaker @momomo_us reveals that Intels future Arrow Lake CPU architecture could drop DDR4 support entirely in favor of DDR5. If true, Arrow Lake will be Intels first CPU platform to support DDR5 alone, just like AMDs...
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Aaron Klotz - Wed, Aug 16, 2023
ASRock has provided some updates regarding Intels upcoming 14th-Gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPU lineup, including motherboard support for the new chips and new memory performance upgrades on the platform.
The motherboard manufacturer has...
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Aaron Klotz - Wed, Aug 09, 2023
Leaked Geekbench results of Intels upcoming Raptor Lake Refresh Core i5-14600KF have surfaced online, showing drastically superior multi-core performance compared to the previous generation i5-13600K despite the fact that the 14600K/KF has...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jul 27, 2023
Micron just put out a press release crowing about its latest achievement: 8-high HBM3 Gen2 memory stacks with up to 24GB of capacity and a 50% improvement in per-pin transfer rate over extant HBM3. That raises the data rate to 9.2 Gbps...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Jul 21, 2023
Memory overclocking performance has historically been a weak point of AMD's Ryzen processors. This is true even on Socket AM5; where Intel-based DDR5 rigs can hit 7000, 8000, all the way up to the world record of 11,202 MT/s, AMD...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Jul 14, 2023
ASRock's Taichi series of motherboards have historically been fantastic pieces of hardware. Your author's main personal PC is based on an ASRock X570 Taichi motherboard, and it's been rock-solid and feature-filled through two...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Jul 05, 2023
Did you think that the Ryzen 5 5600X3D would be the last Socket AM4 CPU? We did too, and we were sure we were right. As it happens, there are two more AMD CPUs headed to the last-generation socket, although they're not exactly...
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Mark Tyson - Mon, Jul 03, 2023
ASUS has shown off a new hybrid graphics accelerator and storage PCIe Gen4 card on Chinas equivalent of YouTube. GM of ASUS China, Tony Wu, took to Bilibili this weekend to share a concept design which melds an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Jun 30, 2023
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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Mark Tyson - Tue, Jun 20, 2023
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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Zak Killian - Tue, May 16, 2023
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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Zak Killian - Mon, May 08, 2023
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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Zak Killian - Fri, Apr 28, 2023
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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Aaron Klotz - Thu, Apr 27, 2023
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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Zak Killian - Mon, Apr 10, 2023
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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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 10, 2023
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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Zak Killian - Fri, Apr 07, 2023
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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Zak Killian - Mon, Apr 03, 2023
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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Zak Killian - Mon, Apr 03, 2023
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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Zak Killian - Fri, Mar 31, 2023
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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Aaron Klotz - Tue, Mar 28, 2023
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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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 27, 2023
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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