Alongside the announcement of Ryzen 7000 desktop CPUs, AMD also announced the brand-new AM5 socket and 600-series chipsets that AM5 boards will feature. These new motherboards for Ryzen 7000 will ...

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Motherboards that use the AM5 socket will also support the new Ryzen 7 9700X. Every 9000 series CPU features AM5 sockets, just like the last 7000 series. Thus, all currently available B650 and X670 ...

During its CES 2022 presentation, AMD teased its upcoming Zen 4 CPUs which add PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 support. It also detailed the accompanying AM5 socket. The new platform is due for release in the ...

AMD has been very clear that its current AM4 socket will be retired when its Zen 4 chips are released next year. The new socket, generally believed to be called AM5, will switch to an LGA design, ...

Back at CES 2022, AMD gave an update on the Zen 4 architecture that will first show up with the Ryzen 7000 series processors. Those chips, at least in desktop form, will go into Socket AM5. Where ...

AMD first teased its upcoming Ryzen 7000-series CPUs and its new Zen 4 CPU architecture at CES in January. The company said that the chips would use the new AM5 CPU socket, that they would be built on ...

If you're trying to build a low-end to midrange gaming PC or workstation with inexpensive but modern parts, it has been hard to recommend AMD's Ryzen 7000-series processors. That's partly because ...