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Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 Overclocked to 10,004 MT/s

By Mark Tyson published 26 April 22

The deed was done on an Intel Core i9-12900KS system using an MSI MEG Z690 Unify-X motherboard. Interestingly, the CPU was cooled by LN2 but ran at just 425 MHz.

ASRock B660 Steel Legend Review: Solid Features and Affordability

By Joe Shields published 25 April 22

Reasonable features for the price ($159), but this board struggles with heavily multi-threaded loads

Framework Is Selling Mainboards Separately for Crazy Maker Projects

By Andrew E. Freedman published 22 April 22

Framework is selling its mainboards and open sourcing CAD and electrical documentation to allow for upgrades as well as maker projects.

Over 100 Lenovo Laptops Affected by Trio of UEFI Vulnerabilities

By Mark Tyson published 20 April 22

Vulnerabilities were first spotted by ESET researchers. Two would allow an attacker to disable UEFI flash memory protection. Another is an elevated privileges with arbitrary code execution flaw.

Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme and Extreme Glacial Motherboard Review

By Joe Shields published 16 April 22

To water cool, or not to water cool, that is the question.

Open Source Coreboot BIOS Ported to MSI Z690-A Motherboard

By Aaron Klotz published 13 April 22

Coreboot, an open-source firmware platform, has been ported to MSI's Z690-A WiFi motherboard

AMD EPYC Genoa Motherboard With 12 DDR5 Slots Smiles For The Camera

By Zhiye Liu last updated 7 April 22

ServeTheHome forum user posted a photograph of a mysterious Socket SP5 (LGA6096) motherboard for AMD EPYC Genoa CPUs.

New Gigabyte Workstation Motherboards Have Arrived for Alder Lake-S and Threadripper 5000 Pro

By Aaron Klotz published 7 April 22

Gigabyte has released two new workstation motherboards designed for both Intel and AMD's newest CPUs, including Alder Lake and Zen 3 Threadripper Pro.

Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Tachyon Review: Born to Overclock

By Joe Shields published 25 March 22

Designed for overclocking, but a well-rounded performer for $549.99.

New PSU Standard Adds 600W Connector for Next-Gen GPUs (Updated)

By Anton Shilov last updated 23 March 22

ATX12VO 2.0 PSUs for energy-efficient PCs gain support for 12VHPWR connector that delivers up to 600W.

MSI MPG Z690 Carbon EK X Motherboard Review: EK Block Included

By Joe Shields published 19 March 22

MSI’s Z690 Carbon EK X is a feature-rich board that includes a custom EK monoblock for $629.99.

AMD Job Posting Hints at Embedded RISC-V CPUs

By Anton Shilov published 18 March 22

Radeon Technologies Group is hiring RISC-V specialist.

Motherboard Makers Enable Support for Latest Ryzen CPUs

By Anton Shilov published 16 March 22

AMD 400/500-series motherboards get Ryzen 7 5800X3D support, other platforms get support for Ryzen 5/7 4000/5000-series SKUs.

Ukraine Vice PM Asks Asus to Shutter Russia Business

By Mark Tyson published 11 March 22

Mykhailo Fedorov's previous requests seem to have spurred tech giants such as Intel, Microsoft, and Apple to act with greater haste.

Vendors Deploy New Firmware For AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU

By Zhiye Liu published 10 March 22

Asus and MSI release new firmware for X570 motherboards to accommodate the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor.

ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB4 Review: Thunderbolt, but Limited Expandability

By Joe Shields published 10 March 22

Two M.2 sockets, Thunderbolt 4, and Killer-based networking in a Mini-ITX form factor for $349.99.

MSI WS WRX80 Motherboard Has AMD Threadripper Workstations in Its Sights

By Mark Tyson published 9 March 22

AMD Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-Series (Zen 3) supporting E-ATX motherboard is packed with premium features and expected to be very expensive when it launches for DIYers next month.