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This isn't a tiny ITX motherboard, so why bother with a dock, unless you are in an unusual situation where you move your desktop machine from location to location on a very regular basis? The majority will plug their stuff directly into the motherboard. If anything, I'd love to see more...

AMD didn't put direct limits into AGESA to prevent motherboard makers from sending too much voltage to the CPU, and as a result, some processors and even some motherboards were damaged. So, with AGESA 1.0.0.6 and 1.0.0.7, AMD had to lock down the voltages because motherboard makers can't be...

You always have people who try to do things manually, and they end up making mistakes. Ryzen 9 7900X with ASRock X670e Taichi motherboard, 1.21 BIOS with AGESA 1.0.0.6, and the only settings I adjusted were to set the memory profile to EXPO with Aggressive for those setting, no other changes...

AMD has been making an effort at efficiency in its designs, but at the high end, many people don't care about efficiency all that much. So, reference is two 8-pin power connectors, custom high-end will have three of those power connectors. If they put the power connectors on the top of the...

When it comes to price for motherboards, you have to look at what the motherboard has on it. Do you compare DDR4 to DDR5 motherboards, or PCIe 4 boards to the new AM5 motherboards that all have SOME PCIe 5.0 on them? Do you compare motherboards that came out a year ago(Z690) to the AM5...

Yet more nonsense in a supposedly unbiased review. Motherboards aren't really all that much more expensive than what came out for previous generations, outside of the boards that have far too many features or just add things that will cost a lot. PCI Express 5.0 support for example...a...

Intel gave Thunderbolt 3.0 to the USB consortium a few years ago, and it is now a part of the USB 4 spec. Nothing special required from Intel at this point. USB 4 is NOT Thunderbolt 4.

So, loss of efficiency for the Surface, and going back to dual-core garbage plus some efficiency cores to mislead consumers. I'll make sure to tell people not to buy these pieces of garbage for this generation.

Have you checked out the Intel quarterly report plus forecast for the rest of the year? Intel doesn't even think it will do well.

So, you went with the 11400, which isn't really any faster than the 10400. You weren't looking at the high end in the slightest, but then, you look at what prices are like at the high end and start to complain. It's like saying that Ferrari priced itself out of the market because your last...

I see a lot of complaints, but reading some of the responses, not everyone believes in the gloom and doom that others have been putting out there. Since price is an issue, consider the pricing over the past five years. I look at the market in the USA, so the prices in Canada primarily was...

You forget that what Intel was doing was very clearly a case of anti-competitive behavior. You can give rebates/credits for VOLUME, but you can't pay money to push companies not to sell products of competitors, or to limit their sales of competing products, since that is the very definition of...

What you don't understand is that the price structure is based on yields and how difficult it is to make a given product. The Radeon 6800, 6800XT, and 6900XT are all made from the same fab process and design, with the only difference being how many GOOD CUs there are. At launch, the 6900XT...

If AMD is really going the MCM route with RDNA 3, then AMD can put together 2-4 dies worth without fab process yields being an issue. That will allow for larger GPUs without the price going up significantly for only a 5-10 percent performance increase. Other than MCM, I have a hope that AMD...

I find it somewhat funny how people are trying to translate performance of DDR5 on Zen4 based Ryzen with Intel, because Intel was ahead in previous generations. If you have a CPU that supports multiple RAM types, then there has to be connectivity between the memory controller and the rest...