AMD is still not done with the now eight-year-old Socket AM4. The company just launched two new CPUs: Ryzen 5 5600XT and Ryzen 5 5600T.
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AMD has released a new chipset driver for Ryzen and it brings support for an important hardware security feature.
The seven-year-old AM4 platform from AMD is far from being done. AMD is still working on new chips, and the upcoming Ryzen 5 5500X3D could be the company's most affordable processor with stacked cache
Besides the new Ryzen 9000 series processors for AM5, AMD has also announced a couple of new toys for the Socket AM4 platform as well. These include a 16-core 5900XT and an 8-core 5800XT.
AMD is out with new chipset drivers for its Socket AM5 and AM4 platforms. The new chipset supports the recently released Ryzen 8000 series APUs, but there is likely more under the hood.
MSI motherboards, from both Intel and AMD, have been vulnerable due to a broken Secure Boot firmware setting issue. The bug would allow potentially malicious files to boot into an affected system.
While AMD just announced its new Ryzen 7000 series CPUs and Socket AM5 motherboards, the outgoing AM4 platform is far from dead as confirmed by AMD itself. Today there is a bunch of great Ryzen deals.
A report suggested that AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7000 CPUs could be hit with a delay due to firmware issues. Alphacool, a partner of AMD, has confirmed though that they should be on-shelf in September.
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AMD officially supports PCIe Gen4 on both its B550 as well as X570 chipsets. However, buyers are advised to be careful when purchasing as certain B550 motherboards are dropping PCIe 4.0 support.
AMD announced new products today at Computex 2022 like the new Socket AM5 platform and its chipsets. However, company CEO Lisa Su also confirmed that the current AM4 socket will live on for now.
Noctua has announced a list of existing AM4 coolers that will be compatible with future Socket AM5 motherboards that are launching later this year. Overall, all but two AM4 coolers are compatible.
After Asus and Gigabyte initially gave no hint regarding B350 chipset support for Ryzen 5000 CPUs, the former has now apparently confirmed that the chipset will be supported alongside A320 and X370.
While AMD made it official yesterday that first-gen Socket AM4 300 series chipset boards will support the new Ryzen 5000 and 4000 CPUs too, there appears to be some major caveats, at least for now.
As the company had said earlier, AMD has officially announced the support of all Ryzen 5000 series CPUs, including the newest ones, on first-gen 300 series chipset AM4 motherboards.
AMD is working on bringing Ryzen 5000 CPU support to its older 300 series chipset motherboards, says David McAfee. The 300 series chipset launched back in 2017 alongside the first-gen Ryzen CPUs.
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AMD's Socket AM5 may re-use the same stock coolers that the company currently packages with the existing Ryzen processors on AM4. The information comes via a leak related to the next-gen socket.
Asus has begun rolling out Windows 11-compatible BIOS for several of its motherboard models both for AMD and Intel platforms. The firm has posted a detailed list of motherboards that are compatible.
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The upcoming EVGA DARK AMD X570S motherboard - which was teased recently -has apparently been tested today and the preliminary memory overclocking performance of the board seems pretty great.
Vince Lucido of Kingpin has teased what appears to be the upcoming EVGA motherboard for AMD. The board will be based on the X570S chipset and will reportedly be launching sometime in Q3 this year.
EVGA, the popular GeForce GPU AIB, has just put out a teaser that hints at an upcoming AMD motherboard, the company's first. From the teaser, it seems the board will feature the firm's DARK brand.
ASRock has launched today its new Phantom Gaming Riptide X570S and B550 AMD motherboards. The new boards pack some interesting features like the graphics card holder, and lightning gaming ports.
On June 1st, MSI will be live-streaming a new event called "Tech meets Aesthetic" on YouTube. At this, the firm will reportedly launch its new X570S motherboards, a new graphics card, and more.
MSI's upcoming X570S chipset-based motherboard lineup has leaked according to a new report. The X570S is a new chipset for AMD's Ryzen processors where the "S" allegedly stands for 'silent'.
ASUS has announced the availability of the AGESA 1.2.0.2 firmware. The update is supposed to fix the USB connectivity problems that AMD 500-series chipset board owners had reported experiencing.
NZXT has launched its first AMD motherboard. As is the tradition with its N7 boards, the company is calling the new AMD board the N7 B550 where the name comes from the B550 chipset it sports.
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AMD has now expanded support for its Smart Access Memory feature to Ryzen 3000 series processors. The feature debuted last year alongside the launch of the Ryzen 5000 CPUs and RX 6000 series GPUs.
Intel's Ryan Shrout has tweeted a storage performance comparison between the company's upcoming desktop flagship, the Core i9-11900K, against AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X. The i9 emerged as the winner.
AMD has released a statement about USB problems that 500-series chipset motherboard users have been reporting for a while. The company says it's investigating but would appreciate more feedback.
AMD has officially announced that PCIe Resizable BAR support will be arriving next month via the upcoming AGESA 1.2.0.0 BIOS. The new update will also fix some telemetry problems with Ryzen Master.
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