Tag Archives: x570

DeepCool does it again with another brilliant AIO CPU cooler!

We look back over the year and pick our three favourite motherboards across a broad price spectrum

X570S is here and Luke checks out two options from ASUS and Gigabyte

It's finished! AMD Behemoth is running and looking absolutely top notch

Our Super Tower AMD Behemoth custom mod project is starting to take shape!

The AMD Behemoth custom build starts to take shape!

Our next modding project is underway - here James gives us the lowdown on what to expect

It looks like EVGA won't just be making Intel-based motherboards anymore. This week, the company began teasing a new motherboard for Ryzen processors. The teaser is just nine seconds long, teasing a new EVGA DARK series motherboard. The Zen logo appears on screen behind the Dark logo, indicating that we'll …

Besides Gigabyte, it looks like Asus is also working on new fanless X570 motherboards. New ROG Crosshair and ROG Strix fanless X570 motherboards are expected some time during Q3 2021.  When the first X570S motherboards were spotted, there were two major claims about them. Some thought they were linked to …

We've known for a while now that MSI plans to roll out a BIOS update for its motherboards introducing Smart Access Memory (SAM) support to Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs. Now, this BIOS update is officially available, adding SAM for older CPUs and some small performance improvements for Ryzen 5000 series …

A cracking CPU you will want, but let us know if you can find it for sale anywhere !

AMD's Ryzen 9 5900X is here - how does it stack up against the competition?

This past weekend, Razer announced multiple new products during RazerCon 2020. Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan took the stage to introduce what Razer has been working to over 1M concurrent viewers, totalling over 250000 hours viewed and generating 175M impressions over social networks. Some new product include cases, a gaming chair, …

During the Ryzen 5000 series announcement, AMD promised that "over 100 AMD 500 series motherboards from all major motherboard manufacturers" will be ready for the Ryzen 5000 processors. As it seems, they were not lying as most motherboard manufacturers already have at least an AGESA Combo-AM4 v2 1.0.8.x firmware update ready to be downloaded.

If you currently own an MSI X570, B550 or A520 motherboard, then you might want to check out the latest BIOS update. The new update is available now across MSI's stack of current-gen AMD motherboards, improving memory overclocking and solving a couple of lingering issues.  The Combo PI V2 1.0.8.1 …

We check out this kit of 4600MHz memory from Thermaltake - just how fast is it?

ASRock's Phantom Gaming-ITX is the only X570 mITX motherboard with a Thunderbolt 3 connector

How does this little cooler from Arctic fare against the Wraith Prism and Stealth?

Zen 3 is still likely to be many months away, but the rumour mill has certainly begun churning. Keeping up with AMD's release cadence from Zen, Zen+, and Zen 2, we initially expected to see Zen 3 around Q4 2020. Will this still be the case?...

This is a board you dont want to miss, given its powerful 16 phase power delivery system

Luke goes hardcore with an in-depth VRM analysis of four X570 motherboards

It's ASRock's £300 X570 offering - what does Luke make of it?

ASUS already has a few ATX-sized X570 motherboards out in the wild but today, we are seeing two new additions to the lineup for small form factor builds.

While the first generation of Ryzen processors had some issues maintaining high DDR4 memory speeds, significant improvements have been made since then. Now with 3rd Gen Ryzen and X570, memory makers are able to release blazing fast DDR4 kits tailored to AMD's platform. Corsair's new Vengeance LPX for instance runs …

Dig deep with Luke as he analyses the new MSI MEG X570 ACE motherboard

It's a high-end X570 motherboard that costs £390. Is it worth the money?

How does AMD's Ryzen 5 3600X fare in the mid-range market segment?

Now that Ryzen 3000 has been out for a few weeks and we've had a good chunk of time with the new processors and X570 platform, Leo and Luke got together to discuss recent findings. It is a lengthy discussion, going over Zen overclocking, X570 as a whole, using Ryzen 3000 on an older motherboard, what's next for Threadripper and more.

Last week, it was widely reported that Destiny 2 was not able to run on AMD's new 3rd Gen Ryzen processors and X570 motherboards. Bungie began investigating the issue fairly swiftly but it turns out that the main problem was on the AMD side, as Destiny 2 and several major …

Update (12.07.19): Earlier this week we learned that Destiny 2 players upgrading to AMD's new Ryzen 3000 CPUs and X570 motherboards were having trouble launching the game. Bungie has been investigating the issue this week but so far, the developers haven't been able to patch out the problem. Fortunately, it …