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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.
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A few hours ago, AMD's Computex 2022 presentation details regarding its Zen 4 architecture and Ryzen 7000 leaked. Now, we have information on the accompanying AM5 socket and the 600-series chipsets.
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.
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Active cooling could become the norm for the upcoming PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs according to storage controller maker Phison. That may not be enough for long as next-gen connectors are also in works.
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Asus has confirmed via a recent change to the specifications of its Asus ROG Thor Platinum II SMPS that the upcoming 12-pin power connector will be able to deliver up to 450W of power instead of 600.
Memory and storage maker ADATA will show off a couple of sample PCIe 5.0-based NVMe SSDs at the upcoming CES 2022 event. These drives, the company claims, could read at speeds of up to 14GB/s.
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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.
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