Written by Metal Messiah

TechPowerUp has just posted a very interesting article. I will try to keep this short and simple though. According to TPU’s article it looks like AMD’s next-gen ZEN3 CPUs won’t be backwards-compatible with the older 400-series, as well as the 300-series of Motherboard chipsets. Continue reading AMD confirms that the ZEN 3 4’th GEN Ryzen Desktop CPUs will only support the new AMD 500-series (or later) chipsets →

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When the RX 5600 XT GPU was launched there was chaos and confusion amongst reviewers, Retailers, AIBs and gamers like, because AMD made some last minute changes to the specs and parameters of this GPU. It was sort of a messy launch. Continue reading AMD finally announces RX 5600 XT NAVI GPU with faster 14Gbps memory Modules →

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According to a leaked slide and report posted by MyDrivers, it looks like AMD will support the next-gen PCI-Express Gen 5.0 standard and DDR5 by 2022. Continue reading DDR5, PCI-express Gen 5.0, and USB 4.0 are going to become mainstream by 2022 →

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PowerColor is a Taiwanese-based graphics card brand/manufacturer, and the company has just released a mini-ITX small form factor/SFF Navi 10 GPU for gamers looking for a compact graphics card for their ATX cabinet, and gaming RIGs. Continue reading PowerColor has released an ITX SFF form factor RX 5600 XT NAVI 10 GPU for Gamers →

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Blast from the past ! It looks like AMD has upgraded one of its 3 years old processor from the Ryzen 1000 series. The first-gen AMD Ryzen 3 1200 has been a budget CPU for quite some time, and originally it packed a 14nm ZEN design. Continue reading AMD Ryzen 3 1200 CPU gets a slight upgrade, now packs a 12nm ZEN+ architecture →

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As you may have noticed AMD’s current ZEN processors have been in the market for quite some time, and AMD has also offered backwards-compatibility on it’s AM4 platform, unlike INTEL who has been forcing end users to upgrade to a new CPU socket/platform. Continue reading AMD to offer AM4 socket compatibility with RYZEN 4000 series CPUs →

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Since the release of RYZEN 3000 series of CPUs last year, AMD has been quite dominant in the CPU mainstream and high-end markets. This has also forced INTEL to re-think their pricing strategy of their current lineup of CPUs. Continue reading AMD prepping to launch Quad Core ZEN2 budget CPUs →