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RTX 4090 PC Case Compatibility Guide
I’ve seen a few folks on YouTube and reddit who have their hands on an Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics card and are shocked to find out the damn thing doesn’t fit in their PC case. Such as the one below, where an Aorus Master card doesn’t fit in the 0-11…
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Noctua Unveil AM5 Compatibility Offering Free Upgrade Kits Where Needed!
Noctua has officially confirmed that all its CPU coolers and mounting kits that support AMD AM4 also support the upcoming AM5 socket, except the NH-L9a-AM4 low-profile cooler and the NM-AM4-L9aL9i mounting kit. For the latter, Noctua announced the new NM-AM5-L9aL9i kit that will be available free of charge from the…
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be quiet! Confirms its AM5 CPU Cooler Compatibility
Following the release of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 platform, while many are excited to be making the transition to the new AM5 socket (and all the goodness that goes with it), it has clearly raised more than a few questions in regard to CPU cooler compatibility. – Fortunately, following a number…
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Alphacool Confirm Full CPU Cooler Compatibility With AMD’s AM5 Socket
With AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 processors set for launch on August 29th, we’ve already seen a number of manufacturers confirm compatibility for the new upcoming AM5 socket. In fact, by and large, it does seem that if a CPU cooler offers AM4 compatibility, it will probably be alright to work…
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Corsair Announces its AMD Ryzen 7000 Support Website!
With AMD expected to announce the launch of its Ryzen 7000 processors on August 29th, Corsair has formally confirmed its readiness for the new processors and accompanying motherboard chipsets. Featuring all-new Zen 4 CPU architecture, AMD Ryzen 7000 Series chips deliver a substantial performance boost over previous-generation processors, and CORSAIR…
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Noctua Confirms Near Full Compatibility with AMD’s Upcoming AM5 Socket
With the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7000 series of desktop processors expected to arrive around October this year (give or take), one of the key differences to all prior Ryzen releases to date is that this will see the transition to a brand new AM5 socket type. Yes, AMD is changing…
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Android App Compatibility on Windows 11 Has Higher Requirements than the OS
Earlier this week, Microsoft officially began rolling out official Android App support for Windows 11. Now, before you go rushing off to try it, there may be a few obstacles in your way. Firstly, this service has only been debuted among US-based users. Secondly, at least at the time of…
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Nearly Every Alphacool Water Block/AIO Cooler is Compatible With Intel LGA1700
While various cooler manufacturers have, over the last few weeks, been declaring their various support for Intel’s upcoming Alder Lake-S LGA 1700 socket, Alphacool has remained somewhat suspiciously quiet on the subject. Following a report via Videocardz, however, all has been revealed as they have just confirmed that practically all…
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Noctua Confirms Compatibility Kits for Intel Alder Lake-S
Noctua is well known for being one of the most respectable PC hardware brands around and has regularly shown a strong interest in ensuring that their range of excellent CPU cooling products is entirely compatible with as many socket designs as possible. This was evident, for example, when AMD launched…
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Gigabyte Confirms AMD Ryzen 5000 BIOS Updates!
Gigabyte, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, announced today the release of the latest BIOS for the motherboards with the AMD X570, B550, and A520 chipsets to ensure the most comprehensive performance, compatibility, and reliability improvements for users to have the most pleasant user experience on…
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ASRock Confirms X570/B550/A520 Zen 3 Compatibility
ASRock, a global leading motherboard manufacturer, has today announced that its AMD X570/B550/A520 motherboard series will support next-generation AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series processors via a simple BIOS update. The next-generation processors come with a full suite of technologies designed to elevate your PC’s processing power. Update to the latest BIOS…
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AMD B550 Motherboard Shown Running ‘Incompatible’ Ryzen CPUs
Technically speaking, with the (much belated) launch of the AMD B550 motherboard platform, while it supported their 3rd-gen processor releases (and new platforms moving forward for the immediate future) it did come with a notable caveat. Namely, that it didn’t, at least in terms of what AMD said, support their…
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be quiet! Confirms Intel LGA 1200 Compatibility
Several months prior to the release of Intel’s Comet Lake-S platform, it was well-known that it would be moving to a new LGA 1200 socket design. It later emerged, however, that (pending some confirmation) pretty much any cooler currently compatible with the 115X platform would likely work on it without…
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Gigabyte Confirms Z490 Will Support Rocket Lake-S
So, it’s official, with the confirmed launch of Intel Comet Lake-S and its respective Z490 motherboards, we’re less than a month away now before we finally get to find out just how good (or bad) this 10th-gen platform will be. One of the biggest questions, however, hasn’t been specifically surrounding…
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Thermaltake NeonMaker Now Offers Additional Support
Thermaltake, the leading PC DIY premium brand for Cooling, Gaming Gear, and Enthusiast Memory solutions, is now bringing some fantastic news for those who have been dying to try out the NeonMaker software without a set of Riing Quad Fans. The NeonMaker software now supports the Riing Trio fans and…
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