AMD has officially lifted the lid on its latest entry-level chipset designed for its Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 and 4000 processors, the A520 chipset. Following AMD’s mid-tier B550 chipset launch a few months back, A520 brings up the bottom of AMD’s now fully-modernized chipset stack, dialing down on things like PCIe speeds to allow its board […]
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Tested: X570 Motherboards Can Overjuice Ryzen, But Rarely Do
HWinfo claims that X570 motherboards from a variety of manufacturers are guilty of underreporting power to Ryzen CPUs so the chips will go faster at stock settings, but at the possible expense of chip longevity. It doesn’t appear that AMD condones the misreporting. However, in response, AMD said that it was investigating the issue, but it doesn’t […]
AMD leaks a Ryzen-powered Lenovo Chromebook
Evidence that OEMs have plans to release Ryzen-powered Chromebooks has been around for a while now, but AMD may have just straight-up confirmed it. Most recently, several listings for a Ryzen-powered 2-in-1 Pixelbook appeared on Geekbench, codenamed Zork. Now, AMD may have confirmed that at least Lenovo is close to releasing a Ryzen-powered Chromebooks. Spotted […]
TRX40 Chipset For Upcoming AMD Ryzen Threadripper Listed
In what is being put down to an inadvertent leak by MSI, it could be that the currently unannounced chipset for AMD’s new 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper series processors has been officially mentioned (not withstanding the unconfirmed leaks from various sources). With the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper third generation set to hit the shelves in […]