Motherboard

The DIY home-built PC crowd will be delighted to learn that GPU upgrades just became effortless. The Gigabyte X670 EZ-Latch Plus motherboard is a new screwless and latchless system for easy GPU and SSD swaps. Tom’s Hardware noticed two new Gigabyte motherboards surface on Twitter, a PCIe EZ-Latch Plus and an M.2 EZ-Latch Plus. Both are built with the upcoming Ryzen 7000-series processors with Zen 4 architecture in mind. Both the PCIe and M.2 EZ-Latch Plus motherboards finally do away with those small, annoying…

Researchers have discovered malware that has been secretly infecting systems featuring Asus and Gigabyte motherboards for at least six years. Since 2016, Chinese-speaking hackers have been infiltrating machines with the CosmicStrand malware, according to a report from Bleeping Computer. Getty Images Notably, once the malicious code has been distributed, it remains largely undetected within the firmware images for certain motherboards. This particular method of targeting firmware images is classified as a Unified…

Asus has announced (opens in new tab) that it will support next-gen Intel processors on its 600 Series motherboards. This is great news for enthusiasts currently using this platform with an Alder Lake CPU, and ASRock made a similar announcement in June. However, Asus appears only to be supporting Raptor Lake on its top-end Z690 chipset motherboards, at least initially.The news release says that "Asus 600-series motherboards will receive support for these new CPUs according to the chart below." In the table it has shared,…

Asus ROG has announced that one of its motherboards has been used to achieve the DDR5 memory frequency world record. Overclocker Lupin No Musume achieved DDR5-10552 memory speeds using a system based around an Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Apex motherboard.(Image credit: Lupin No Musume)In the video below you can see Lupin No Musume verify the world record memory clocks in CPU-Z. To the left of the monitor display, you'll see the overclocker artfully kept the liquid nitrogen topped up to keep the system from overheating. To the…

MSI looks set to roll out its first H610 chipset motherboard with support for the ATX12VO power connector standard. The MSI Pro H610M 12VO (opens in new tab) featured briefly in an MSI Insider broadcast in mid-January when mainstream Alder Lake processors were fresh, but only now is it being readied for retail, with its product page providing a features overview, gallery, and full specs. In January, we thought this might become a system integrators only product, but its appearance on the consumer site confounded this…

According to DigiTimes' sources, Taiwan PC industry sources say Asus and Gigabyte have doom-laden projections for the motherboard industry through the rest of 2022. According to the report, Asus and Gigabyte have approximately 70% of the motherboard market and they both expect sales volumes to drop by approximately 25% compared to 2021. The publication says this is due in part to the end of GPU bundling with motherboards along with demand shrinkage in the Chinese DIY market. An early warning sign of the coming slowdown…

Twitter user chi11eddog (opens in new tab) has shared photographs of an unreleased MSI motherboard. The upcoming MAG B660M Mortar Max WiFi DDR4 reportedly sports a Renesas external clock generator for driving both BCLK overclocking on non-K CPUs and PCIe 5.0 support. These two features aren't available on the existing MAG B660M Mortar WiFi DDR4.The refreshed Intel B660 motherboard will carry the Max moniker to differentiate itself from the vanilla version. In addition, the Renesas RC26008 external clock generator is an…

According to a report by TechPowerUp, Biostar has announced a brand new motherboard at Computex, the X670E Valkyrie. This new model is one of Biostar's first motherboards equipped with the new AM5 socket from AMD and features AMD's flagship X670E chipset for the next generation of Ryzen 7000 processors and associated motherboards, which enables PCIe 5.0 support for graphics and storage solutions.If history repeats itself, this new motherboard will be Biostar's flagship for the AMD 600 series platform; The Valkyrie name…

This fall, AMD is planning a clean break with the past, and it thinks your need for speed might convince you to do the same. Today at Computex 2022, the company revealed the key facets of its next-generation Ryzen 7000 desktop CPUs, their Zen 4 architecture, and — for the first time in five years — a brand-new kind of motherboard you’ll need to buy. While even some of the company’s oldest AM4 motherboards can be updated to support its latest Ryzen 5000-series desktop CPUs, the upcoming Ryzen 7000 requires AM5. As the…

Today's best MSI MPG Z690 Edge WIFI dealsThe MSI Z690 Edge WIFI DDR4 hails from the MPG line of motherboards, in the middle of the company’s product stack. While it may not have all of the bells and whistles that some high-end MEG-class boards do, the MPG line (and the Edge WIFI) all come well-equipped and ready to take on whatever Alder Lake processors dish out, including our i9-12900K test chip.The Z690 Edge WIFI DDR4 ($299.99) is at the bottom of the MPG series, with the Z690 Force WIFI and Z690 Carbon WIFI/Carbon EK…