Neowin News Feed for: Z690

Windows BSOD shows UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR even on supported CPUs, MSI offers workaround

Sayan Sen — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:08:01 +0000

This past week Intel users were affected by a new Windows update issue which led to an "UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR" error. While Microsoft is busy investigating, MSI has provided a workaround. Read more...

Microsoft investigates Windows (KB5029351, KB5029331) Unsupported Processor BSOD crashes

Sayan Sen — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 06:34:01 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed it has received reports of Windows 11 and 10 blue screening and crashing after a UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR error message. The firm explains how it wants you to report feedback. Read more...

ICYMI: 10,000 Asus ROG Z690 boards recalled due to danger of burn and fire

Sayan Sen — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 23:16:01 +0000

ICYMI, the U.S. CPSC has announced the formal recall of Asus ROG Z690 Maximus Hero motherboards. This boards had the potential to cause fire and burn hazard as it had a major manufacturer fault. Read more...

After ASRock and Asus, MSI outs BIOS updates for Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake support

Sayan Sen — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:44:02 +0000

Following ASRock and Asus, MSI today has released the firmware updates that add support for Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake-S chips its 600 series motherboards. The CPUs are expected to launch in October. Read more...

ASUS readies 600 Series motherboards to support the next gen Intel processors

Anushe Fawaz — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 08:34:01 +0000

ASUS revealed today that it is providing BIOS support and updates to make its Series 600 motherboards with a Z690 chipset, compatible with Intel's forthcoming 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs. Read more...

The lowly Alder Lake Pentium G7400T gets overclocked to 5.8GHz setting World records

Sayan Sen — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 08:00:01 +0000

Intel's locked Alder Lake-S Pentium G7400T was overclocked from 3.1, all the way up to 5.8GHz, a massive ~87% increase using BCLK tweaking. As such, the CPU has produced some impressive benchmarks. Read more...

DDR5 is too expensive so ASUS makes a DDR5 to DDR4 adapter for Intel Alder Lake

Sayan Sen — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 16:06:01 +0000

ASUS has made a new DDR5 to DDR4 adapter which can help fit DDR4 RAM onto a DDR5 motherboard. The device, although prototype, makes sense in the market right now as DDR5 kits are too expensive. Read more...

ASUS admits Z690 Maximus Hero boards had reversed capacitors, begins recall

Sayan Sen — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 06:16:01 +0000

ASUS has confirmed that the reversed capacitor problem that was detected earlier is potentially causing the issues on its ROG Maximus Hero Z690 motherboards. The firm has initiated a recall program. Read more...

This silly mistake from ASUS could be burning up your brand new $600 Z690 board

Sayan Sen — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 07:34:01 +0000

The $599.99 Maximus Hero Z690 motherboards could be going up in flames due to a silly error from ASUS' manufacturing. Analysis shows that the board's capacitor is placed incorrectly, causing failure. Read more...

Buyer beware: At least some Alder Lake 600 series boards may be limited to just PCIe 4.0

Sayan Sen — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:14:02 +0000

Intel's Alder Lake-S compatible 600 series motherboards may not all feature the new PCIe 5.0 technology according to a new report. The motherboard models seem to not indicate this difference clearly. Read more...

Core i9-12900K(F) on Z690 is smashing records left and right, but 8GHz OC seems far fetched

Sayan Sen — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:18:01 +0000

ASRock has announced today that its overclocking (OC) records on Alder Lake-S using the Z690 AQUA OC board have been validated by HWBOT. Meanwhile, Gigabyte has denied that it faked its 8GHz CPU-Z OC. Read more...

DDR4 or DDR5, what's the difference and how to choose for your 12th gen Alder Lake PC

Sayan Sen — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 14:30:01 +0000

Intel launched its 12th gen Alder Lake-S desktop CPUs recently which are compatible with both DDR5 and DDR4 boards. In this article, we try to summarise what the pros and cons of each platform are. Read more...

Charlie Demerjian: Intel used unoptimized Windows 11 build to downplay AMD performance

Sayan Sen — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:46:01 +0000

Intel at its Innovation event allegedly used an older Windows 11 build - which had issues on Ryzen - to showcase its performance advantages with Alder Lake-S, claims Charlie Demerjian. Read more...

Alder Lake-S could be quite potent with last-gen DDR4 too suggests benchmark leak

Sayan Sen — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:51:52 +0000

Probably the first DDR4 benchmarks for Intel's upcoming Alder Lake-S desktop processors have leaked today via PugetBench. Overall, the performance on DDR4 seems good at least in the case of this. Read more...

More Alder Lake-S Core i9-12900K benchmarks leak, splendid performance but maybe not always

Sayan Sen — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:32:01 +0000

Today, purported SiSoft Sandra and Cinebench R23 results for Intel's Alder Lake-S Core i9-12900K leaked. While the latter's score is quite impressive, the same cannot be said for Sandra. Read more...

More affordable Alder Lake-S motherboards likely not coming before 2022 suggests EEC leak

Sayan Sen — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:04:01 +0000

New chipset filings for Intel's upcoming H670, B660, and H610 have been spotted on the EEC's website. Curiously, the entries have been made by Intel itself suggesting these aren't launching very soon. Read more...

Alleged launch date for Intel 12th gen Alder Lake and Z690 leaks

Sayan Sen — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 22:18:01 +0000

According to a new report today, Intel is purportedly launching its upcoming 12th gen Performance Hybrid-based Alder Lake-S desktop processors and Z690 chipset motherboards in November this year. Read more...

Alder Lake-S Core i9-12900K leak suggests performance might be underwhelming

Sayan Sen — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:22:01 +0000

Leaked performance numbers for Intel's upcoming Alder Lake-S Core i9-12900K in Adobe's After Effects (AE) suggests that the upcoming Intel CPU could disappoint, at least in some of the workloads. Read more...

Only top-end Alder Lake-S and Z690 parts allegedly landing this year, says report

Sayan Sen — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:24:01 +0000

Intel's Alder Lake-S platform is expected to arrive later this year. However, a new report claims that only higher-end parts are arriving first, followed later by the others in 2022. Read more...