The possibility of PCIe 4.0 support on the upcoming AMD Ryzen 4000-series (codename Renoir) desktop APUs isn't looking too good. Looking at the product page for the Biostar Racing B550GTA motherboard, you'll see notes clearly stating that PCIe 4.0 support "depends only on Ryzen 3rd Gen Matisse" and "PCIe 4.0 speed only for AMD Ryzen 3rd Gen Matisse.

Intel announced Project Athena at CES 2019 in an effort to push ultrabooks towards higher performance, longer battery life, the best of connectivity and quick wake from sleep. Since then, over 30 laptops have met Intel's standards. They include clamshells and 2-in-1s as well as both Windows machines and Chromebooks.

In a few cases, only some configurations of laptops that are named are technically Project Athena compliant, so be sure to check for the extra

Nvidia recently hosted its online GTC keynote , and although the company did announce its Ampere architecture as expected, not a word was said about the consumer/gaming market. Today, a report from DigiTimes claimed that both AMD and Nvidia will launch their next generation of graphics cards in September.

DigiTimes didn't name its source, but giving the report more weight is TrendForce's press release this week that noted that the release of new graphics cards , as well as the PlayStation 5 and

There's a new DDR4 record in the books. As announced today by G.Skill and Asus, an overclocker known as Bianbao has set the new world record for fastest DDR4 RAM at DDR4-6666 (technically running at 6,665.4 MHz). To do so, the enthusiast used the new Intel Core i9-10900K

Last week, we had MSI on the forums to answer everything you wanted to know about their new Intel Z490 Motherboards. In case you missed it, we have the AMA in full below. Before the digest though, take a moment to enter our MSI giveaway, which features an RTX 2060 Super, MSI Z490 motherboard Gaming EDGE WiFi Motherboard, Gungnir 100 Case, and an MSI Optix MAG272CR Gaming Monitor. To

Intel only launched its blazing hot Intel Core i9-10900K yesterday, and we already have a world overclocking record: 7.707 GHz, as recorded on HWBot Wednesday. Since it's so early in the chip's release, chances are we'll see the chip hit even higher speeds in the foreseeable future, but 7.7 GHz on all CPU cores is still a seriously

AMD's SmartShift technology, which lets mobile processors and graphics cards shift power to each other based on the user's current needs, is now available in the Dell G5 15 SE. Dell first announced the G5 15 SE gaming laptop at CES 2020 .

As of this writing, the laptop starts at $862.39 for an AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor, AMD Radeon RX 5600M discrete

Sabrent is expanding its Rocket Q series of SSDs with a very high density model. The new Rocket Q 8TB should be the largest M.2 SSD to grace the storage world once it's officially available for purchase.

The Rocket Q 8TB is a M.2 2280 SSD that'll happily live inside a standard PCIe 3.0 x4 interface. Sabrent bakes the 8TB model with the same ingredients as any other Rocket

With AMD’s new mainstream Ryzen 3 3000 CPUs hitting our test bench a couple of weeks ago and Vega-packing Ryzen 4000 Renoir desktop chips seemingly waiting in the wings , now is as good a time as any for new affordable AMD motherboards. Board makers have recently been busy rolling out to Intel-based Z490 boards . But those same companies are also about to usher in a slew of B550 boards (announcing today and