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AMD officially supports PCIe Gen4 on both its B550 as well as X570 chipsets. However, buyers are advised to be careful when purchasing as certain B550 motherboards are dropping PCIe 4.0 support.
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PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs from Samsung, Corsair, WD, and Adate, are selling at excellent prices today that are worth considering. In this article, we have made a compilation of some of the best deals.
In a recent interview, AMD explained the benefits of its new SmartAccess Storage (SAS) tech which it debuted at Computex. The company also confirmed that not all NVMe SSDs are SAS ready.
Intel is in its infancy in the discrete graphics card market and as such, its Arc Alchemist GPUs as well as last gen DG1 have certain issues which are related to its DTT and PCIe 4.0 respectively.
While Nvidia has already added PCIe 5.0 power support to its recently launched RTX 3090 Ti, the company is reportedly skipping the addition of PCIe 5.0 bus support on its RTX 4000 Ada Lovelace GPUs.
AMD's new Navi 23-based budget cards, the Radeon RX 6500 XT and the RX 6400 are limited to just four channels of PCIe bandwidth. The cards also lack AV1 decoding and H.265/ HEVC encoding support.
Thanks to the ongoing Cyber Monday and Black Friday sales, NVMe SSDs from Corsair, Gigabyte, and Samsung are all selling for excellent prices. We have made a compilation of the best deals.
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.
Gigabyte has launched today its new AORUS XTREME PCIe 4.0 AIC SSD. The new SSD comes with a capacity of up to 32TB and can offer sequential transfer speeds of up to 28GB/s (read) and 26.5GB/s (write).
Alleged slides of Intel's next-gen 'Alder Lake' CPUs have leaked. The slides contain information regarding features we will find on Alder Lake and its accompanying 600-series chipset platform.
Intel's Ryan Shrout has tweeted a storage performance comparison between the company's upcoming desktop flagship, the Core i9-11900K, against AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X. The i9 emerged as the winner.
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WD announced its first PCIe Gen4-based M.2 NVMe SSD that touts twice the performance of its predecessor. It also debuted an SSD add-in-card and a Thunderbolt 3-based gaming dock with RGB.
While Arm DevSummit is happening and AMD is about to announce Zen 3, Intel announced that its Rocket Lake desktop CPUs are on track for the first quarter of next year, with PCIe 4 support.
Alder Lake-S, Intel's next-gen desktop platform will be on a new Socket LGA 1700, according to a leak. Team Blue is conducting voltage tests on the new socket, but it may be a while before we see it.
While the bandwidth provided by PCIe 3.0 is found to be sufficient for most GPUs with adequate VRAM, the 4GB Radeon RX 5500 XT is found to be struggling possibly due to its PCIe x8 limitation.
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