(Image credit: AMD) AMD has curiously taken a low-key approach to launching its value-centric A620 motherboards, burying the full details of its A620 announcement late on a Friday night, but the company has finally shared the full details and slide deck with us about its new range of value-geared motherboards. To reduce pricing, the motherboards…
It appears that AMD is ready to get serious about its ongoing motherboard pricing problem, and finally deliver cheaper motherboards for its latest Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 AM5 processors. According to HKEPC, AMD is preparing two versions of an upcoming A620 motherboard chipset, aimed at budget-minded consumers. The current entry-level AM5 motherboards use the B650…
MSI is the latest motherboard maker to announce Intel 600 series chipset motherboard support for next-generation Intel Core processors. It published a new blog post with a list of what appears to include its entire 600 series motherboards portfolio, spanning products with Z690, B660, H670 and H610 chipsets. With these updates being prepared (or now…
AMD just released a new chipset driver, version 4.06.10.651, centered around supporting AMD’s new Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt mobile platform. The driver includes six new drivers, with one of these drivers adding USB 4 support to Windows 10 and 11. For now, this driver applies strictly to Ryzen 6000, but we expect support to expand to…
(Image credit: AMD) AMD CEO Lisa Su revealed more details about the upcoming Ryzen 7000 series processors and the 600-series motherboards today during the company’s keynote address, both of which will arrive in Fall 2022. AMD demoed a 16-core Ryzen 7000 processor hitting an amazing 5.5 GHz during a gaming demo, and also completing a…
In computer terminology, a device driver is a set of files that tells a piece of hardware how to function by communicating with a computer’s operating system. In this post, we discuss what is a Chipset driver and how do you update Chipset drivers on Windows 11 or Windows 10 system. All pieces of hardware require…
Gigabyte has officially released a new AMD Chipset driver (4.03.03.624) to some of its motherboards, adding support for a new sub-driver designed specifically for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Gigabyte lists this driver as the “AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver” in the release notes, and it is only intended for Windows 10 users. It’s important…
Choosing the best gaming motherboard (or best motherboard for another type of desktop) is a key step in your PC build, even though things like CPUs and graphics cards get more attention. Every part of your PC connects to your motherboard. Its form factor will decide the size of your case, and its chipset and…
Intel recently published an updated datasheet for its 600 Series Chipset Family Platform Controller Hub (PCH). If you hit the “PCH SKUs” bookmark to the left side of the linked webpage or download the PDF and head to Page 14, you will see a table like the one below. As your eyes move down the…
AMD has divulged details about a chipset vulnerability that can allow non-privileged users to read and dump some types of memory pages in Windows. This technique allows an attacker to steal passwords or enable other types of attacks, including circumventing standard KASLR exploitation (aka Spectre and Meltdown) mitigations (via TheRecord). Word of the bug came…
