MSI, in cooperation with AMD, has released new updates for its motherboards that are compatible with the Ryzen 7000 CPUs. Although the Ryzen 7000X3D CPU does not support full overclocking or overvoltage adjustment according to AMD’s design specifications, AMD EXPO technology can be used to optimize memory performance by increasing the CPU [...]
ASUS has finally issued an official statement regarding the recent cases of damaged AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs on its AM5 motherboards and also explained why the older BIOS was removed. In the statement, ASUS explained that the issues were due to a combination of factors, including CPU cooling, voltage regulation, and the use of older BIOS versions [...]
If the sound card drops out or cracks, USB devices do not work or only work sporadically or the performance drops, then interrupt conflicts are usually the cause. This is something that Windows users have long since ignored out of sheer convenience, although the problem is as old as PCs and has only shifted under the colorful operating system [...]
AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D has quickly gained popularity, securing a spot on the list of best CPUs. According to the new user benchmarks published on an independent platform, the octa-core chip achieves similarly good results on the cheap A620 boards as on the X670(E) mainboards. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D was particularly convincing in games and achieved [...]
Take a Ryzen 7 7700X, piggyback some 3D V-cache and halve the power consumption of the Intel Core i9-13900K. The half Ryzen 9 7950X is ready, which now comes to the customer as Ryzen 7 7800X3D without the second die and can still usually act just as fast in gaming. It’s not squaring the circle, but it’s close. As long as you use [...]
I’ve been testing the Maximus Z790 Hero motherboard from Asus for a while now and today I finally and officially have the review ready for you. In our baseline article about DDR5 RAM tests, the board was already mentioned very positively and has therefore established itself as the backbone for the test system. Not least the reliability and [...]
AMD today officially releases the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, the third X3D processor in the AMD Ryzen 7000 series. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D will be compatible with all MSI X670, B650 and A620 motherboards, allowing a wide range of configuration options for users. This processor has 8 cores and 16 threads, which gives it excellent performance. It also features a [...]
It was recently announced that the motherboards with the AMD A620 chipset announced on Friday will not be able to use all of the chipset's features. This naturally makes the chipset look much worse than it actually is. The AMD A620 chipset has some rather arbitrary-seeming limitations implemented by AMD itself. However, motherboard [...]
Sure, the title sounds lurid at first, but it actually contains everything that really characterized this review of the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, because this is where a highly efficient and in many areas really extremely fast CPU meets smaller, self-imposed hurdles. This may sound more dramatic at first than it really is in the end, and it [...]
Just as the Ryzen 7000X3D series is set to launch next week, AMD has announced a new promotion for existing Ryzen 7000 CPUs. The company and its partners are offering between $75 and $125 in savings on select AM5 builds. This offer takes into account AMD discounts on current Ryzen 7000 CPUs and select motherboard/memory bundles. Gamers will also [...]
According to hardware leaker "chi11eddog", who had previously shared confidential AMD/MSI information, the specifications of the A620 chipset are said to be available. This chipset is an entry-level chipset with AMD AM5 socket for the latest Ryzen 7000 CPU series. According to the technical specifications, the B620 will not support PCI [...]
Although my topic has been preached by the old hands in the PC field in forums for decades and is often the approach of any solution to performance problems, the same questions keep popping up from less experienced users. I hope to reach them with this article on our professional platform and maybe there is one or the other info for everyone else [...]
AMD releases the new Zen 4 CPUs without X in the name today. Of course, I was able to test the CPUs in the form of the Ryzen 9 7900 and Ryzen 5 7600 in advance and also added the respective X models freshly. Even though these new CPUs might look rather unspectacular at first glance, the slightly lower price and higher efficiency could definitely [...]
The name GODLIKE has stood for the absolute high-end motherboard at MSI for several generations now, a halo product with all the features you could want, disregarding all common sense. Thanks to MSI, we are one of the first publications to take a look at the flagship Z790 board and determine the benchmark to beat for upcoming tests of Raptor Lake [...]
With Raptor Lake, Intel now also ends the era of monolithic processors. This of course comes with another decent performance boost and it will be the purpose of this review to compare the new CPUs with AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 family. That is definitely worthwhile, because Intel would quite like to have the so-called gaming crown back. The [...]
AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 desktop CPUs, based on the Zen4 micro-architecture, still use the same chiplet design as their predecessors, with a few small but not negligible changes. Igor already gave details about this in yesterday’s big review. Today we want to look at how to configure the new CPUs as optimally as possible and for this we [...]
AMD let us release tests of the four new Zen 4 CPUs today in the form of the Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X. We have already reported about it for a long time, but now the necessary test samples are finally materializing in the form of the real CPUs, which can provide answers to the many questions that have been [...]
Qualified Vendor Lists, or QVL for short, are probably familiar to anyone who has looked for a suitable pairing of motherboard and RAM kit. Since RAM kits with an XMP profile are not covered by the official specifications of the CPU manufacturers (Intel or AMD), motherboard and RAM manufacturers test the compatibility between their products [...]
The starting point of the misery was a mini-ITX build with custom water cooling. All of this is fully in line with the trend, and the fact that EKWB got it this time with the cooler used is just a coincidence. The manufacturer has included an extremely stable backplate in the scope of delivery, which is very praiseworthy in itself, and which is [...]
Today we continue with our Z690 motherboard reviews, with the Asus Maximus Z690 Apex. Not only the naming convention has changed compared to the predecessor models, because besides DDR5, PCIe 5.0 and the LGA1700 socket, there are unfortunately also a few teething troubles that I would like to address in advance, if not have to. Preface: Silicon [...]
