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AMD blames toasted AM5 sockets on motherboard makers pushing their luck with CPU settings
By Jeremy Laird published
News Non-adherence to the recommended "AMD values" is the cause.

MSI is celebrating 10 years of Godlike extravagance with a gold-trimmed AMD motherboard—to go with your golden graphics card and RAM, naturally
By Jacob Ridley published
News A golden PC is now on the cards, or at the very least spread across many expensive monthly payments.

AMD's new AM6 socket has all the pins—2,100 of 'em—but don't worry, your old CPU cooler will apparently still fit just fine
By Jeremy Laird published
news Plenty of pins and all the bandwidth.

Best gaming motherboards in 2025: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today
By Dave James last updated
Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.

NZXT N9 X870E review
By Antony Leather published
Score: 80% A stylish departure from the usual names and faces, but leaves a little to be desired.

Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2025: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested
By Nick Evanson last updated
Mini marvels The best Mini-ITX motherboards for both Intel and AMD.

Gigabyte unveils its second generation of X3D Turbo Mode, for squeezing up to 15% more performance from Ryzen X3D CPUs
By Nick Evanson published
Computex Up to 15% more performance with one click in the motherboard BIOS? Hmmm…

This odd but surprisingly well-priced mini ITX motherboard from Minisforum packs an embedded AMD X3D processor
By Nick Evanson published
News Its specs are far from perfect, but that price tag is very tempting.
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