MSI has showcased a couple of the brand’s new X670 motherboards in the latest installment of the MSI Insider show (opens in new tab). In its video, the company takes us on a small tour around the AM5 socket and the dual-chipset design for AMD 600-series motherboards. The AM5 socket, consisting of 1,718 pins, will…
When AMD teased its upcoming Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) processors for the AM5 socket, the chipmaker indicated that the Zen 4 chips support DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 interfaces. However, AMD did not say whether PCIe 5.0 will be supported only by the upcoming CPUs or by both processors and AMD’s 600-series chipsets. So, for now, it looks…
AMD will kick off this year’s Computex in Taiwan, the world’s largest display of computer components. The Ryzen 7000 series processors for desktops were undoubtedly the most crucial news that CEO Lisa Su brought with him. These eagerly anticipated new CPUs will be available in the fall, exactly two years after the first Ryzen 5000…
A scheme of the alleged Asus Prime X670-P WiFi motherboard for AMD’s next-generation Ryzen 7000-series ‘Raphael’ processors in AM5 packaging reveals basic schematics of the platform and confirms that AMD’s X670 chipset uses two identical chips. Meanwhile, this particular motherboard appears to use a PCIe switch to connect two chipsets to the CPU efficiently. However, this may…
Intel is preparing the terrain for the company’s 12th Generation Alder Lake processors. As discovered by hardware sleuth HXL, the chipmaker’s latest chipset driver (10.1.18836.8283) already brings support for 600-series chipsets that are designed for the upcoming hybrid desktop chips. The last HEDT (high-end desktop) chipset from Intel was X299, and it came out in…
It appears that Intel’s 600 series chipset — built for Alder Lake — will not support the Gen 5.0 standard, per a report from HardwareTimes. According to a PCI-SIG certification, Intel’s future Alder Lake-supported chipsets will max out at Gen 4.0 speeds running in an x4 configuration, meaning the only Gen 5.0 support Alder Lake…