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Arkadiusz Strzala, 24 May 2021, 16:54

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, support for DDR5 RAM.

Adrian Piotrowski, 15 February 2021, 15:09

PC building company PowerGPU tweeted stat figures showing that the failure rate of AMD's latest CPUs can reach almost 20 percent. The tweet has now been deleted, but not before it made big waves on the web.

Adrian Werner, 06 January 2021, 12:33

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.

Mateusz Popielak, 20 May 2020, 16:15

AMD has decided to add support of Ryzen 4000 Zen 3 processors to older chipsets - B450 and X470.

Mateusz Popielak, 08 May 2020, 13:54

The upcoming Zen 3-based Ryzen 4000 processors may not be a very budgetary solution. Only the X570, B550 and newer mainboard models will support them.

Michael Kulakowski, 05 May 2020, 21:06

The upcoming Intel Comet Lake-S and Rocket Lake-S CPU 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.

Conrad Hazi, 01 May 2020, 16:06

As Gigabyte suggests, motherboards built on the Z490 chipset and supporting PCIe 4.0 are expected to be compatible with both the latest Intel CPU 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.

Mateusz Popielak, 22 April 2020, 20:18

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.

Bart Swiatek, 22 April 2020, 19:09

AMD has officially announced two more Ryzen 3000 CPU 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.

Bart Swiatek, 21 April 2020, 11:25

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.

Laty, 05 November 2019, 13:38

Intel prepares a response to the successful AMD Ryzen 3000 Series CPU 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.

Konrad Serafinski, 24 September 2019, 18:24

The offer of one of the German store includes PC sets equipped with Radeon RX 5300 XT GPU and B550 chipset (supposedly supporting PCIe 4.0). Both configurations will reach consumers in October.

Jacob Blazewicz, 08 July 2019, 22:03

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.

Bart Swiatek, 17 June 2019, 15:54

Danish online store Komplett.dk has placed on its website product cards of motherboards based on X570 chipset, dedicated to Ryzen 3000 CPU, and... these things will be pricey, to say the least.

Bart Swiatek, 13 May 2019, 11:26

ASUS and ASRock have confirmed that they are preparing BIOS updates for older AM4 motherboards to work with the new AMD processors Ryzen 3000.

Bart Swiatek, 29 April 2019, 13:11

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.