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One of the best things about building with AMD hardware in the last few years has been the longevity of the AM4 processor socket, which was the standard for Ryzen CPUs for five years. AMD is hoping to ...

As for the current AM5 socket, AMD officially announced that it was extending its support to at least 2029—it was originally ...

Intel's first socketed microprocessors came in a dual in-line package (DIP) with 40 connectors. The i486 used a variety of sockets, but the most popular had 237 contacts. AMD's "Socket A" for the ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor is down and out, with one user showing pictures of a toasted 9800X3D and AM5 socket ...

One of the greatest strengths of building an AMD-based machine in the last eight years has been AMD's fantastic support for Socket AM4. Socket AM5 looks much the same, with at least one more ...

Intel's next gen CPUs are coming to gaming PCs soon, and we've just been given our first glimpse of the socket that will be used by the chips and their supporting motherboards. The new lineup of Intel ...

AMD is relaunching variants of its 2019/20 Ryzen 3000 and Ryzen 4000 chips, enabling PCs and notebooks with cheaper DDR4 RAM.

ASRock claims that the reason some owners of its 800-series motherboards have found their new PCs unable to boot, or even damaging their CPUs, is because of debris in the socket. Reportedly, after ...

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