Tag: motherboards
Chinese manufacturer advertises a completely locally built mainboard
It is said to be the first PC motherboard with a soldered-on processor that is produced entirely in China: the GM7-2602-02 in Mini-ITX format from Gitstar. At least that’s what…
Ryzen 5000 server board with open source remote maintenance OpenBMC
The Taiwanese company Asrock Rack produces the X570D4U server board, which costs around 430 euros and can be used to combine a Ryzen 5000 with up to 128 GB of…
Fast Ethernet and ECC RAM: Server motherboards for Ryzen 7000
The Epyc 9004 “Genoa” server chips deliver immense performance with up to 96 cores, twelve memory channels and 128 PCI Express lanes, but they also cost between 1000 and 12,000…
Asus: Gaming graphics card with no visible power connections
The Taiwanese component manufacturer Asus is showing prototypes of a gaming graphics card without visible power connections at the Computex IT trade fair. Instead, the GeForce RTX 4070 draws its…
FAQ: What is there to consider when upgrading a processor?
The CPU is the heart of every computer and significantly influences the speed and efficiency of a system. But what to do when the processor is getting old? c’t explains…
Against heat death: BIOS updates for Ryzen 7000 processors are coming
The mainboard manufacturers Asrock, Asus, Biostar, Gigabyte and MSI will be distributing new BIOS versions for their AM5 boards in the next few days. They are introducing a new AMD…
New processors for old motherboards | c’t uplink 48.0c
In the podcast c’t uplink, c’t editor Christian Hirsch shows how to swap the main processor of your PC for a faster one. In this way, the old PC becomes…