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AMD Finds a Fix for Ryzen’s USB Problems, BIOS Patch Coming in Early April

Home News (Image credit: Fritchenz Fritz) AMD has announced via a reddit post that it has found a fix for the widely-reported USB connectivity issues that have impacted systems with Ryzen processors, saying, “With your help, we believe we have isolated the root cause and developed a solution that addresses a range of reported symptoms[…].”… Read more

ASRock’s Custom Radeon RX 6700 XTs: Three Cards, Unknown Price Points

Home News (Image credit: ASRock) ASRock has revealed its lineup of custom-designed Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics cards. The family includes three boards that offer different levels of performance and features, and therefore will sell at three different price points. All of the cards feature enhanced voltage regulating modules (VRMs), require two eight-pin power connectors, and come… Read more

ASRock’s Custom Radeon RX 6700 XTs: Three Cards, Unknown Price Points

Home News (Image credit: ASRock) ASRock has revealed its lineup of custom-designed Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics cards. The family includes three boards that offer different levels of performance and features, and therefore will sell at three different price points. All of the cards feature enhanced voltage regulating modules (VRMs), require two eight-pin power connectors, and come… Read more

Building the ultimate retro computer

Although I assembled it myself, and its software all comes from an open-source DIY project, in many ways my MiSTer is the most versatile computer I own. It’s a shapeshifting wonderbox that can change its own logic to make itself run like countless other machines as accurately as possible. From old arcade boards to early… Read more

AMD Threadrips Intel’s Sales at Puget Systems

Home News (Image credit: Puget Systems) Puget Systems recently shared sales data showing that its sales of AMD-powered systems have now passed the 50% mark, unseating Intel from its previously-dominating 100% share of the company’s sales. This win comes even though Puget Systems previously stopped selling AMD systems back in 2015 because Team Red was… Read more

AMD’s Rumored RX 6700 Could have a 12GB Configuration

Home News (Image credit: AMD) In a recent filing from ASUS to the ECC, Asus has revealed several new model numbers relating to the rumored RX 6700. In all of these model numbers, the amount of VRAM listed for the 6700 was 12GB, indicating that the RX 6700 could come with 12GB of VRAM like… Read more

AMD’s RX 6700 XT Could Be Its Highest Clocking GPU Ever

Home News (Image credit: AMD) In AMD’s recent announcement of the RX 6700XT, the company revealed that the new GPU would feature a game clock of 2,424 MHz. That spec is much higher than any of AMD’s other RDNA2 GPUs, but now, according to a Geekbench 5 benchmark (Tweeted by APISAK), we have evidence that… Read more

ASRock Z590 Steel Legend WiFi 6E Review

Introduction After almost a decade of total market dominance, Intel has spent the past few years on the defensive. AMD’s Ryzen processors continue to show improvement year over year, with the most recent Ryzen 5000 series taking the crown of best gaming processor: Intel’s last bastion of superiority. Now, with a booming hardware market, Intel… Read more

GPU Test System Update March 2021

Introduction TechPowerUp is one of the most highly cited graphics card review sources on the web, and we strive to keep our testing methods, game selection, and, most importantly, test bench up to date. Today, I am pleased to announce our newest March 2021 VGA test system, which has one of many firsts for TechPowerUp…. Read more

2020 GPU Sales Failed to Impress, Despite Record Demand

Home News (Image credit: ASUS) Sales of PCs increased sharply in 2020 as people needed new desktops and notebooks to work and learn from home. As a result, shipments of GPUs (graphics processing units) also increased compared to 2019, mostly because the majority of today’s CPUs (central processing units) come with integrated GPUs. But while… Read more

Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 review: AMD and Nvidia at their best

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 is the gaming laptop to beat. When I tested Asus ROG’s Zephyrus G14 a year ago, I was blown away. Not only was it just over 3.5 pounds — a weight unheard of for a system with both a powerful processor and a discrete GPU — but it ran even… Read more

Ryzen 7 5800U Handheld Gaming Device in the Works

Home News (Image credit: Amazon) Popular handheld gaming device maker GPD reportedly plans to create a new handheld built around AMD’s new Ryzen 7 5800U Zen 3 mobile processor, according to YouTuber Wild Lee. This will be GPD’s first use of an AMD CPU, and it will be by far the most powerful handheld they’ve… Read more

Best NVMe SSDs: Our choice of the fastest and best storage drives you can buy

(Pocket-lint) – NVMe drives are becoming more and more common. With the rise in popularity of PCIe gen 4, they’re also getting faster and faster. We’ve written a detailed guide on how to install these tiny drives to give your system a performance boost, but if you’re contemplating which drive to buy you might be… Read more

Case Mod World Series 2020 Winners Showcase Cyberpunk Mantis Blade PC, A ‘Floating’ Tower

Home News (Image credit: AK Mod) When times get tough, modders get modding, and 2020 was no different. Today, the winners of Cooler Master’s Case Mod World Series 2020 modding contest receive their crowns, rewarding some of the most remarkable mods created in a challenging year. The 2020 contest saw 90 entries from enthusiasts across… Read more

Supermicro 1023US-TR4 Review: Powerful Performance in a Slim 1U Package

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Supermicro’s 1023US-TR4 is a slim 1U dual-socket server designed for high-density compute environments in high-end cloud computing, virtualization, and enterprise applications. With support for AMD’s EPYC 7001 and 7002 processors, this high-end server packs up to two 64-core Eypc Rome processors, allowing it to cram 128 cores and 256… Read more