AMD has supported the AM4 platform for almost a decade. I wrote "has" because the company continues to roll out new processors for the socket, allowing those with older AMD motherboards to continue ...

AMD is reportedly ready to finally move to a new gaming CPU socket in the next few years, with the first unconfirmed details about its future AM6 socket starting to leak out. The new AM6 design will ...

As for the current AM5 socket, AMD officially announced that it was extending its support to at least 2029—it was originally ...

One of the main reasons AMD CPUs have proven so popular in recent years the company's policy to use the same CPU sockets across multiple generations. This has meant that a user could buy a motherboard ...

AMD has announced an extension of its AM5 platform roadmap, confirming that new processors compatible with the socket will continue to be released through at least 2029. The updated commitment was ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. AMD's next-generation Zen 7 processors will be coming to the current AM5 socket according to new leaks, with 32 cores and 64 threads being on offer with ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor is down and out, with one user showing pictures of a toasted 9800X3D and AM5 socket ...

Intel's first socketed microprocessors came in a dual in-line package (DIP) with 40 connectors. The i486 used a variety of sockets, but the most popular had 237 contacts. AMD's "Socket A" for the ...

One of the greatest strengths of building an AMD-based machine in the last eight years has been AMD's fantastic support for Socket AM4. Socket AM5 looks much the same, with at least one more ...

ASRock claims that the reason some owners of its 800-series motherboards have found their new PCs unable to boot, or even damaging their CPUs, is because of debris in the socket. Reportedly, after ...

Rumor mill: AMD's next-gen AM6 CPU socket will reportedly have 2,100 pins, a 22-percent increase over the 1,718 pins in AM5. However, despite the increased pin count, the two sockets are said to be ...