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Photo: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo As of January 4, 2021, Intel has started phasing out its 300-series chipsets. The company recently published a Product Change Notification detailing the end-of-life timeline for its chipsets that supports 8th and 9th generation Intel processors, and by the end of January 2022, the chipsets will be silicon history. The 2020 release of Intel’s 10th-gen CPUs and 400-series chipsets already spelled out retirement for the 300-series, but now it’s official. Advertisement...

Today we’re taking a detailed look at how AMD’s Smart Access Memory (SAM) technology influences performance in a wide range of games. All in all, we plan to benchmark 36 games at 1080p, 1440p and 4K. While technically SAM is not an AMD-exclusive technology, they are the first to take advantage of the resizable Base Address Register or resizable BAR, a feature introduced with the PCIe 3.0 spec. For those of you not yet up to speed, SAM or resizable BAR defines how much of your graphics cards...

It’s almost unfair at this point, but as long as Google keeps making Pixel ‘a’ phones, they’ll be the best budget phones you can buy. This year there are two models—the Pixel 4a for $349 and the Pixel 4a 5G for $499—but the difference is more than just the 5G modem. You get a larger screen, an extra ultrawide camera, and a faster processor with the 4a 5G—and for $150 more, it’s a no-brainer upgrade. Like the previous generation’s 3a, the 4a 5G has a plastic back and lacks wire...

Back when AMD announced Smart Access Memory, it was said that only Zen3 processors would support it. Contrary to this, Asus and MSI were able to make it work on systems using AMD 400-series and 500-series motherboards equipped with Zen and Zen2 processors. Back when AMD said Smart Access Memory would only work with Zen3 processors, there were rumours that older Zen processors couldn’t handle it because they don’t support a special PDEP instruction at native speeds. According to Wccftech, th...

Dec 18, 2020 02:06 EST MSI has just provided us with the latest screenshots of their X570 motherboards supporting AMD Smart Access Memory on Ryzen 3000 Matisse and Ryzen 4000G Renoir CPUs with NVIDIAs RTX 30 series graphics cards. MSI Confirms AMD Smart Access Memory Support on Ryzen 3000 Matisse & Ryzen 4000G Renoir CPUs, Spotted Running With NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 GPUs We have already seen the Resizable-Bar feature or as SAM, as AMD likes to call it, enabled for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 GPUs...

Dec 16, 2020 19:14 EST ASUS seems to have enabled AMD Smart Access Memory on the first generation Ryzen CPUs on a B450 motherboard as one user on Reddit managed to get the feature running on his PC. The user who goes by Merich98, posted his findings in the AMD subreddit and shared not only that the tech works with his motherboard and CPU but also posted some performance numbers. AMDs Smart Access Memory Enabled on First Gen Ryzen Desktop CPUs & ASUS B450 Motherboard, Mixed Results AMDs Sma...

Who should buy the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT? Our short video tells you everything you need to know. Credit: Brad Chacos/IDG The launch of AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT marks the seventh new graphics card to hit streets in the last three months—making for a densely packed field of competition in the ultra high-end. That crowd is what puts AMD’s top card in a difficult spot, which we summarize in the video above. Our exhaustive review dives deep into the details, but for the TLDR folks, we...