AMD is writing the book on socket longevity and it's doing it with AM4, which is approaching a decade of service. Just when you thought we'd seen the last hurrah for the aging platform when AMD released a new Ryzen 5 5500X3D with 3D V-Cache earlier this ...

The new processor is a souped-up version of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D. It's called the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, and although it shares the same architecture and central specs as the ori

Exciting news for owners of AMD Socket AM4 motherboards and PCs - AMD has announced a yet unknown series of Ryzen 5000-series 'XT' processors. The the really interesting part is that they're for its aging Socket AM4 and associated motherboards. At an event ...

It's hard to remember now, but the original AMD Ryzen processors topped out at "just" 8 cores. The Ryzen 3000 family came along in 2019 with the Ryzen 9 branding and the first sixteen-core desktop CPUs. Even in the enterprise market, 16 CPU cores can be ...

AMD's aging AM4 platform is set to receive a couple of new updates, including the Ryzen 5 5600XT and Ryzen 5 5600T CPUs. The AMD AM4 platform is over seven years old, and AMD has not only kept a steady supply of chips but is also launching a couple of new ...

Intel and AMD have been embroiled in a long-running battle over which company offers the best CPUs. That can be a nuanced discussion depending on the metrics used in the comparison. Still, there's one area where AMD has recently had a sizable advantage ...

When AMD launched its Ryzen processors on a newly minted AM4 socket in 2017, it was a game changing moment. Finally, AMD was bringing back real competition to Intel. But while Ryzen was killing off the relevance of the venerable quad core, it was also ...

TL;DR: AMD's next-generation AM6 socket will support Zen 7 processors with 2100 pins, a 22% increase in pin density over AM5, while maintaining the same size. This enables higher power delivery exceeding 200W and supports advanced features like PCIe 6.0 ...

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 cleaning the sockets of some of the motherboards sent back ...