AMD transitions to PCI Express 5.0 and DDR5 memory. The AM5 LGA socket contains 1718 pins, which significantly increased over the AM4 socket, which had 1331. That increase is partly needed for ...
The Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wi-Fi Ice looks great, offers a fine selection of ports, and will be happy company for any AM5 ...
For general-purpose boards, check out our round-up of the best motherboards. CPU recommendation: Intel Celeron G3900 or ...
This simple guide aims to tackle the nerves while installing the processor into the motherboard socket. AMD's Zen 5-based Octa-core wunderkid is out now. Here are all the CPUs one needs to consider ...
You get nice access to eight overall 4-pin headers for the fans (and there ... 9 7950X/9950X and possibly the new processors for the AM5 socket (the new X3D 9000 series, above 9800X3D).
Meanwhile, its single 4-pin PWM cable will power the lighting ... and forward to Intel’s LGA1700 and AMD’s latest Socket AM5 chips. If you want superb CPU cooling for a low price, and you ...
It appears to be a slower-clocked version of the Ryzen 5 7500F, which features the same 3.7GHz base clock but a 300MHz higher ...
Hands on with the ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi model at CES 2025, a flagship RDNA 4 GPU with power delivered by a single ...
AIO coolers are no longer only for enthusiasts performing risky CPU overclocking. Some Intel 14th-Gen processors run warm at stock settings, causing cheaper air coolers to struggle. However ...
Check out more of the year's best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. It's been a busy year for motherboard vendors, thanks to new AM5 socket chipsets from AMD and a completely new ...
AMD is still presenting two affordable processors for AM5. The Ryzen 5 7400F could be the cheapest AM5 entry-level processor. AMD is adding two new entry-level processors to its AM5 platform.