Asus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'

Asus starts an ‘immediate internal review’ on its 800-series motherboards in light of ‘recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs’

Imagine that you’d just bought a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the best gaming CPU around right now. You drop it into your AM5 socket motherboard and start enjoying the freshly boosted frame rates. After a while, you then start experiencing all kinds of problems, until eventually your gaming PC no longer fires up: the CPU…

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It’s an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs

When it comes to the latest CPUs and GPUs, we all know that they need to be made on the most complex and expensive process nodes, in order to pack in billions of transistors into the die. However, not all chips need to be fabricated this way, which is why Intel is only just making…

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