While the upgrade was partially successful, a deep dive into the Socket 7 and Super Socket 7 documentation ... CPU of all time into the socket: the AMD K6-2 450, a CPU well beyond the original ...

AMD's Socket AM4 debuted eight years ago ... For reference, the Ryzen 7 5700X currently costs just $158, while the Ryzen 5 5700X3D with its stacked 3D V-Cache is only $19 more expensive than ...

AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GPUs are fast becoming the best-selling ones on Amazing right now, and they've earned a lot of praise ...

Yesterday, on the PCMR subreddit, u/t0pli posted a photograph of a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, one of the best CPUs, with visibly damaged pin contacts and a motherboard socket scuffed in the same place.

AMD uses various motherboard sockets for its 64-bit CPUs (Opteron, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, Turion 64). Socket 940 (940 pins) supports dual channel memory controllers, and Socket 754 supports a ...

As I wrote this, AMD and its motherboard partners had just launched cheaper chipsets options for its Socket AM5 platform ... you’re looking to build that super clean PC. A quick glance at ...

then you're better off going with the Ryzen 7 9700X ($307 at Amazon). With a 60 W TDP, it's very easy to cool, too. I have a bit of a soft-spot for AMD's 12-core Ryzen processors. They often get ...