AMD Zen 4 to Require New AM5 Socket; Big Changes Inbound
Leaks suggest that the next generation of AMD Zen 4 processors (including Ryzen 7000) will require a new socket - AM5. It will bring very big changes, including, above all, for DDR5 RAM.
hardware & software
May 24, 2021
PowerGPU: AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Highly Unreliable
PC building company PowerGPU tweeted stat figures showing that the failure rate of AMD's latest Us can reach almost 20 percent. The tweet has now been deleted, but not before it made big waves on the web.
hardware & software
February 15, 2021
Global PC Component Prices Are in For an Increase
This year we will pay even more for PC components. The reasons include customs and problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Asus was the first company to introduce price increases.
hardware & software
January 6, 2021
Ryzen 4000 Zen 3 Will be ed by B540 and X470 Chipsets After All
AMD has decided to add of Ryzen 4000 Zen 3 processors to older chipsets - B450 and X470.
hardware & software
May 20, 2020
New Ryzen 4000 Zen 3 ed Only by X570 and B550 Boards
The Zen 3-based Ryzen 4000 processors may not be a very budgetary solution. Only the X570, B550 and newer mainboard models will them.
hardware & software
May 8, 2020
Comet Lake-S Us Are Obsolete; LGA 1700 Socket is Coming
The Intel Comet Lake-S and Rocket Lake-S U will become completely obsolete after only a dozen or so months on the market. In 2021 the company intends to introduce a new, incompatible with its predecessors, socket LGA 1700, which will appear together with the 12th generation Alder Lake-S chips.
hardware & software
May 5, 2020
Z490 Chipset-based Mainboards Will Intel Rocket Lake-S U
As Gigabyte suggests, motherboards built on the Z490 chipset and ing PCIe 4.0 are expected to be compatible with both the latest Intel U from the Comet Lake-S family and the next generation, Rocket Lake-S. This also means that both chip families should be based on the LGA1200 socket.
hardware & software
May 1, 2020
Mainboard Prices For Intel's New Us May be Astronomical
The Z490 chipset offers from Gigabyte and MSI have leaked into the web. If we believe the rumors, we can expect really big price increases.
hardware & software
April 22, 2020
AMD Announces Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300X as well as B550 Chipset
AMD has officially announced two more Ryzen 3000 U and motherboards based on the new B550 chipset - the successor to the popular B450. Launch of the new hardware will take place soon - in May and June.
hardware & software
April 22, 2020
AM4 Socket Refuses to Die; Will AMD Ryzen 4000 U
The representative of XMG, a company producing laptops using AMD processors, informed that mobile units from the Ryzen 4000 line are compatible with the AM4 socket and B450 chipset. The same should be true for desktop models and computers based on the same platform.
hardware & software
April 21, 2020
Core i9 10000 vs AMD Ryzen 3000 - 10 Cores and 20 Threads in Intel's 10th Gen
Intel prepares a response to the successful AMD Ryzen 3000 Series U and develops its own 10th generation chipsets with more cores and threads. The new processors will use LGA 1200 socket and Intel 400 Series chipset.
hardware & software
November 5, 2019
Cheap AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT May Debut in October
The offer of one of the German store includes PC sets equipped with Radeon RX 5300 XT GPU and B550 chipset (supposedly ing PCIe 4.0). Both configurations will reach consumers in October.
hardware & software
September 24, 2019
Ryzen 3000 Series Works Just Fine With Old X470 Motherboards
The debut of AMD's Ryzen 3000 series is behind us, and with it the launch of dedicated motherboards based on the X570 chipset. The latter are quite pricey, so some hardware websites decided to check if the new Ryzens work equally well on a X470.
hardware & software
July 8, 2019
Prices of X570 Motherboards for Ryzen 3000 Series U Leaked
Danish online store Komplett.dk has placed on its website product cards of motherboards based on X570 chipset, dedicated to Ryzen 3000 U, and... these things will be pricey, to say the least.
hardware & software
June 17, 2019
ASUS and ASRock AM4 Motherboards Will Ryzen 3000
ASUS and ASRock have confirmed that they are preparing BIOS updates for older AM4 motherboards to work with the new AMD processors Ryzen 3000.
hardware & software
May 13, 2019
Ryzen 3000 Clocks at 4.5 GHz, Leaks on X570 Motherboards
TechSpot reports that motherboard manufacturers have received test copies of Ryzen 3000 processors. The units are to be clocked at 4.5 GHz and have about 15% better performance than the previous generation. We also have leaks about the X570 chipset.
hardware & software
April 29, 2019