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Redditor Buys Broken AMD 5900X (Bent Pins) for Just $3 and Actually Fixes It!
In representing one of the more potentially aggravating aspects of the PGA socket design, anyone with any extensive experience with AMD’s Ryzen 1000-5000 platform has likely encountered bent pins at some point. And yes, this happened to me, despite all my experience, when I once removed a cooler that, for…
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Renders of AMD AM5 Socket (Zen 4) Leak Online
It’s been well speculated for several months now that with the launch of the new AMD Ryzen Zen 4 processors (expected late next year), Team Red, for the first time under the Ryzen consumer name, will be transitioning itself to a brand new socket design. Known (or at least speculated)…
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List of AMD Threadripper TR4 Socket Compatible CPU Coolers
AMD‘s Threadripper CPUs are now officially on their way. However, due to its massive CPU size, many are wondering what CPU cooler options are available for it. Unlike the Ryzen AM4 which uses a pin-grid array, the new TR4 socket uses land grid array and mounts by sliding into the…
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Additional AMD Ryzen Pricing and Launch Details Leaked
With all the excitement around Ryzen, it’s no surprise that even retailer are feeling the effects of the hype. Earlier in the month, we got some pretty comprehensive pricing leaks but even more retailers have joined the fray. This time around, we have Amazon, Memory Express (Canada) and stock information from…
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PGA Looks Set to Boost Developer Innovation with $20m Fund
The Polish Games Association (PGA) is a collaboration between the government, as well as a wide range of games development studios which includes CD Projekt, Techland, Vivd, and more. The move will help show just how vital Poland has become in the EU, as well as in a global market when it comes…
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AMD AM4 Will Feature 140W Support and μOPGA
Later this year, perhaps in October, AMD will be launching with their highly anticipated Zen CPU architecture. Before that though, AMD will be releasing their new processor socket, AM4, with the Bristol Ridge lineup of APUs. As the socket that finally combines the CPU and APU lineups, it will replace…
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AMD Unifies Desktop Zen CPU and APU Sockets
In the days before AMD launched their APUs, all of their consumer CPUs largely used the socket across their lineup. When AMD launched their Llano series of APUs in 2011, they used the an incompatible FM1 socket instead of the AM3/3+ due to the need to integrate the iGPU. With the…
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