Released in March 1994, Socket 5 was primarily designed for second-gen Intel P5 Pentium processors. However, it was also ...

Super Socket 7 didn't arrive until 1998 and served as a stopgap for AMD, buying the company time to develop its own motherboard infrastructure (Slot A) after losing licensing of Intel's sockets ...

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 addresses the Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU boot failure issue after prolonged silence. Memory compatibility is cited as a possible cause. Reports of burnt CPUs suggest larger problems than memory ...

Day 97 (or something like that), the saga of the imploding AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs continues. Yesterday, we reported on a tally of well over 100 reports of dead Ryzen 7 9800 X3Ds on Reddit, most of ...

ASUS launches its first new 'MAX' series motherboards: budget-focused X870 boards led by the new X870 MAX Gaming WiFi 7 ...

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