New motherboards supporting AMD's X870 and X870E chipset are now available, launching first on Newegg. All boards support the new AMD Ryzen 9000 Series desktop processors with the AM5 socket. The new chipsets introduce USB 4.0 ports as standard, alongside DDR5-8000 memory and PCIe 5.0 for expansion cards and storage.

The company unveiled a number of Ryzen 9000 improvements, ranging from a much higher TDP for some of the CPUs to the core-to-core latency improvements we’ve already heard about. AMD is also now supporting higher-clocked DDR5 RAM,

Introduction It hasn’t been long since AMD launched the AMD Ryzen 9000 series (Zen 5) CPUs on August 7th, 2024, and August 14th, 2024. To say the launch came with mixed results is an understatement. What felt like Zen 1 days,