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A first look at the ATX12VO standard

At the beginning of the year there were indications that Intel would introduce the Single Rail Power Supply Desktop Platform Form Factor ATX 12 VO wants to introduce more broadly. It is already used in many complete systems by numerous manufacturers. But such systems are rarely screwed on and so the contacts with this type… Read more

MSI Rep Says Rocket Lake-S Launch Comes in Late March

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) An MSI representative has reportedly shared some interesting information about Intel’s pending 11th Generation Rocket Lake-S processors over at the Danawa forums. The company has since edited its answer (hat tip to @harukaze5719), but we grabbed a screenshot of the original reply and put it through Google Translate. Many rumors… Read more

Crucial Ballistix Max DDR4-5100 C19 2x8GB Review: Blazing Speed Demon

Our Verdict The Ballistix Max DDR4-5100 could easily be anybody’s dream memory kit. However, the hardware requirements and the kit’s eye-watering price tag make it an extremely niche product. For Fastest memory kit on the market Fantastic XMP performance Fun to overclock Against Costs a small fortune Plug-n-Play is out of the question Steep hardware… Read more

Rocket Lake Engineering Samples Benchmarked Against Zen 3

Home News (Image credit: Chiphell.com) As outlined in a recent post on Chip Hell, one of its users reportedly grabbed an early B560 motherboard and engineering samples of three of Intel’s new Rocket Lake CPUs, including the Core i7-11700, Core i9-11900, and Core i9-11900K. The tested pitched each processor against AMD’s Zen 3-powered Ryzen 7… Read more

Best Motherboards 2021 for Gaming, by Socket and Chipset

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Shutterstock) Page 1 of 2: Best Intel Motherboards 2020: Z490, Z390, H370, and X299 Note: For AMD’s AM4 X570, B550, B450 and Threadripper motherboards, see page two or our Best AMD X570 Motherboards page. This first page focuses on Intel, after laying out some basics. Choosing the best gaming motherboard or… Read more

ASRock Rack M.2 adapter: PCIe 4.0 x16 becomes 4x PCIe 4.0 x4

ASRock Rack has introduced another piece of interesting hardware and accessories. The M.2 GPU M2_VGA is now followed by a PCI-Express expansion card, which has 16 PCI Express 4.0 lanes are connected, and these 16 Lanes divided into four times four M.2 slots. Such an expansion card is not really new either. ASUS offers this… Read more

Z490 motherboards will support 11th generation Core CPUs

Biostar and ASRock are the first two manufacturers that formalize support for future 11th generation Intel Core CPUs with their own Z chipset solutions 490 by Paolo Corsini published 28 December 2020 , at 09: 41 in the Motherboards and Chipsets channel Intel Core ASRock Biostar In the first months of 2021 Intel will make… Read more

Intel Rocket Lake-S mass production to start in January

João Silva 23 mins ago CPU, Featured Tech News We’re approaching CES 2021, which means more information about Intel’s plans for Rocket Lake-S desktop processors is making its way out ahead of time. This week, we have a new leak reporting that mass production for these processors will kick off in January. Meanwhile, two motherboard… Read more

ASUS ROG STRIX B550-I Gaming Mini-ITX Motherboard Review

With AMD’s new Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 processors offering new levels of compute, gaming, and power efficiency performance to mainstream desktop users, it is a great time to be a Mini-ITX fan. In this review, we examine the ASUS ROG STRIX B550-I Gaming Mini-ITX motherboard and see how it handles the AMD Zen 3 flagship… Read more

Vendors Confirm Rocket Lake-S Support On 400-Series Motherboards

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Although Intel never explicitly expressed it, the general expectation was the impending 11th Generation Rocket Lake processors would slot fine into the current LGA1200 motherboard with the 400-series chipset. If there was any doubt, multiple motherboard manufacturers have officially confirmed the processors’ backward compatibility. ASRock, for one, has already… Read more

Ryzen 5000 BIOS support overview end of 2020

Idriz Velghe 25 December 2020 13: 22 49 Comments Introduction About two weeks ago We have listed the compatibility of AM4 motherboards in combination with the Ryzen 5000 processors. The list consists of boards from the main AMD partners, including Asus, ASRock, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI. We are now near the end of the year…. Read more

Ryzen 5000 CPU: ASRock's beta bios allow use with AMD 300 motherboards

ASrock has developed beta bios that allow you to use Ryzen processors 5000 also in combination with your motherboards with AMD chipset 300: full compatibility under stress remains to be verified by Paolo Corsini published on 23 December 2020 , at 09: 51 in the Motherboards and Chipsets channel ASRock AMD RyZen I AMD Ryzen… Read more

ASRock Radeon RX 6800 XT Taichi X Review

Introduction Today, we have with us the ASRock Radeon RX 6800 XT Taichi X, the company’s most premium custom-design version of the RX 6800 XT “Big Navi.” Although a giant with motherboards, ASRock is one of the youngest in the graphics card business, making its debut exclusively with the AMD Radeon brand. Given “Big Navi”… Read more

Viper Gaming Steel RGB, Patriot lights up RAM memories

The US Patriot offers the Viper Gaming Steel RGB, a new line of DDR4 memory kits in two modules up to 64 GB which are characterized for the addition of a light bar compared to Steel already on the market. by Manolo De Agostini published 19 December 2020 , at 12: 31 in the Memories… Read more

Patriot releases new Viper Steel RGB memory modules

The US company Patriot has launched the new Viper Steel DDR4-RGB series under the brand name Viper Gaming presented. Said RGB series comes from the Viper Steel series and is available in the speeds 3200 MHz and 3600 MHz. Different modules are offered for capacity. The new RAM from Patriot can be purchased as an… Read more