Motherboard vendors have apparently been manipulating AMD's power management design to effectively overclock motherboards without end-user awareness. HWInfo is now designed to detect this behavior.

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D owners will want to replace it with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the latest flagship gaming CPU, at least according to an AMD executive. The "overclocking factor" of the 9800X3D is ...

TL;DR: AMD believes that the new Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor's overclocking capabilities will encourage gamers to upgrade from the previous Ryzen 7 7800X3D model. AMD thinks that gamers will upgrade ...

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What just happened? Enthusiasts have managed to "hack" AMD's Epyc 4004 processors by fitting them into consumer PC motherboards and pushing them to their limits. Originally designed for small ...

TL;DR: ASUS leads with official support for AMD's next-gen Zen 6 Ryzen CPUs on its B850M AYW OC motherboard, featuring DDR5 overclocking and a 64MB BIOS for future updates. AMD plans a 2026 launch, ...

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Today’s Intel Developer Forum fastest processor in the world gold star goes to Int—I mean, AMD? That’s right, AMD, Intel’s least-favorite chip-making rival, who apparently managed to jam prototype ...