The issues may be tied to excess voltage from overclocking.

Some users on AMD's new AM5 platform have started to report that their new Ryzen processors have burnt out. Users across Reddit and other social media sites have shared their stories showing visible damage to both their Ryzen 7000 CPUs and to the motherboard socket. These issues have not been limited to any single motherboard vendor.

The burnout issue seems to be most common on AMD's Ryzen 7000X3D processors,...

The announcement comes just a day after AMD released their new processors.

During their Intel Vision Event, Intel announced that their 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" CPUs will be released starting on October 20, 2022. Much like 2021's Alder Lake (12th Gen), Raptor Lake will again utilize a blend of performance (P-Cores) and efficiency (E-Cores) cores. Raptor Lake will make use of the new Z790 chipset, but it seems as though those with Z690 boards will still be fine to upgrade....

The next generation of computer processors from AMD to be fully revealed later this month.

If you are waiting for "the next big thing" in terms of computer hardware, you should probably stop doing that because you'll never upgrade. However, if you insist on waiting, you may want to hold off until August 29 to determine your near-future PC upgrades because AMD will have a big livestream to show off their Zen 4 CPUs.

AMD has been dishing out some details about...

There is no end in sight.

TSMC is about to raise their prices for the chips they manufacturer and send to all sorts of tech companies. This means that CPU and GPU prices are going up.

DigiTimes reports that the Taiwanese-based semiconductor manufacturer has already informed its largest customers that it plans to raise pricing by up to 20%. Some of these "largest customers" include tech and hardware giants like Apple, Nvidia, AMD, ARM, Broadcom, and several others....

In case you were wondering what that update was all about.

If you happen to have Battlefield V installed, you may have noticed that a new update was released today on the PC. You're probably also wondering just what that update was all about.

I'm here to inform you that the roughly 200MB update released today was to add support for the latest Intel CPUs that were just released. Those new Intel CPUs being the 12th-gen Intel Core processors otherwise known as Alder Lake....

This is just one part of the fix however.

Earlier this month, it became apparent that there were some issues with AMD Ryzen performance when using Windows 11. In fact, these issues were present since some of the earliest betas for Windows 11 but they largely went ignored until the operating system's first public release. Some testing showed that system performance could decrease by roughly 15% compared to the same hardware running on Windows 10. At the time, AMD and Microsoft said...

Fixes are in the works, but are not out yet.

If you are using an AMD based CPU and you plan on upgrading to Windows 11, you may want to hold off on that for a little while longer. Hell, I still say that you avoid Windows 11 regardless of your CPU for a good year or more if you can help it as it's just not in a good state right now.

But if you're moving forward with Windows 11 despite this warning, you should be aware that you may experience reduced system performance by...

Competition is back!

The higher end Ryzen CPUs from AMD will be released on March 2. The line, called AMD Ryzen 7, will come in three offerings. Now keep in mind that Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 CPUs are also coming, but there is no release date confirmed for those just yet.

As mentioned, the high-end Ryzen 7 CPUs will be available in three varieties and price points.

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The higher end Ryzen CPUs from AMD will be released on March 2. The line, called AMD Ryzen 7, will come in three offerings. Now keep in mind that...

First, AMD announced a special "Capsaicin & Cream" event for February 28. This GDC event will be live-streamed to the world. It is expected that they will at least briefly mention their upcoming Ryzen CPUs (rumored to start going on sale in early March) and their upcoming Vega GPUs (rumored for Spring).
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First, AMD announced a special "Capsaicin & Cream" event for February 28. This GDC event will be live-streamed to the world. It...

Anandtech has some of the first benchmarks out for DirectX 12 and how it compares not only to DirectX 11 performance but also AMD's Mantle. The results? Very promising.

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Anandtech has some of the first benchmarks out for DirectX 12 and how it compares not only to DirectX 11 performance but also AMD's Mantle. The results?...