ASUS is the second motherboard manufacturer to confirm the compatibility of the upcoming AMD Ryzen 9000 “Zen 5 Granite Ridge” CPUs with AM5 motherboards, according to our colleagues at Hardwareluxx. ASUS already released a BIOS update with the AGESA version 1.1.7.0 for its AM5 mainboards at the beginning of this month. Although the [...]
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Embedded World 2024 in Nuremberg offered exciting insights into the future of embedded systems. In addition to the official presentation of Intel’s Meteor Lake-PS platform by iBase, there was the first concrete information on the upcoming LGA 1851 socket and the Arrow Lake-PS CPU series based on it, according to a report by ComputerBase [...]
For months, users have been reporting problems with some Z790 mainboards from MSI in public forums. The affected motherboards had cracks in the Platform Controller Hub (PCH), which led to system failures. YouTuber Joshi Repair recently brought the issue back into the spotlight after examining an MSI Z790 Tomahawk Wi-Fi motherboard with such a [...]
Some things are accidental discoveries and are actually so trivial that nobody even bothers to question the current flows in the PC and, above all, to measure them. We only ever measure the 12-volt rails and are happy. But with connectors such as the 12VHPWR or 12V2x6 over 6+2 pin, the 8-pin EPS and the 24-pin mainboard connection, does exactly [...]
Intel’s 14th generation of non-K CPUs were released earlier this year and are aimed at both more frugal high-end and budget consumers. These chips have a TDP of 65W at their base power limit and therefore offer lower performance compared to the fully unlocked “K” chips, which operate at higher TDPs in an unrestricted CPU. ASRock [...]
According to a user on the Hardwareluxx forum, motherboard manufacturers have released new AGESA BIOS updates for their AM5 motherboards rather unnoticed. The latest BETA BIOS comes from ASUS, who were the first to release 1.1.0.2a for their product range. This update provides improved support for AMD Ryzen 8000G APUs. The two main changes include [...]
It is reported that manufacturers intend to integrate USB4 into AM5 motherboards designed for the AMD Ryzen 8000G desktop APUs. According to various sources, companies such as Gigabyte could soon be launching motherboards that offer USB4 transfer support for the first time. Until now, AMD has not quite been up to date in this area. While Intel has [...]
So anyone who really believes that everything used to be cheaper is very much mistaken. Just compare salaries and prices! Computers are a luxury good. And gold-plated accessories are as old as the PC price list. But who am I telling? If you browse through yesterday’s advertisements today, it can make you feel really sick. But just before [...]
ASRock has quietly released a new BIOS firmware update with AMD AGESA 1.1.0.0 for its X670E motherboards. This suggests that formal availability is likely to follow soon. The ASRock Taichi X670E motherboards will be the first to receive support for the new firmware. The AMD AGESA 1.1.0.0 UEFI firmware is an extension of the existing AGESA 1.0.7.0 [...]
Much helps much, my grandma used to say. And before you throw something away, it’s better to make something new out of it. So say my grandma and Intel. After Raptor Lake is before Arrow Lake, and so the Raptor refresh comes almost exactly one year later. Says Intel and my grandma is silent. And so, in addition to a bit more clock, at least [...]
Today’s article unfortunately shows once again how wide the gap is between manufacturer claims, marketing, paid influencer culture, support, and reality. In such cases (when a long-standing member of the community contacts me and, exasperated, offers all documents and correspondences to warn against certain approaches in support) I [...]
Yesterday I already discussed the performance projection for an Arrow Lake S CPU, today we have the matching base in the form of the LGA1851 socket. Because Raptor Lake for Intel’s LGA 1700 desktop platform is already on the market and an update is planned for the fall. However, this socket will not be continued after that. It is planned [...]
You would think that Windows 11 automatically includes at least the most important standard drivers. The WLAN is active and there might even be an Ethernet cable in the LAN port. You feel well prepared and then you get to a point where you really wonder if they smoked some special weed in Redmond. I have rarely seen so much stupid ignorance and [...]
AMD’s Scalable Voltage Interface 3 (SVI3) for Dummies and how to check if your AM5 Mainboard is SAFE
Terrible SoC voltages everywhere! AMD’s new horror! Say some YouTubers. But to learn more about this problem and understand why at first glance everything seems different than it actually is, we need to go back to the source, which is none other than SVI3. In this article today I will try to shed more light on this power interface used by [...]
Recently, there has been and continues to be a lot of uproar about ASUS motherboards maintaining excessively high SoC voltages, which appear to be the problem with the Ryzen 7000X3D failures. However, as will be seen today, other brands also maintained excessively high SoC voltages, applying only a minimal drop through the new firmware versions [...]
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 [...]
