It seems that some ASRock motherboards were having trouble working well with the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 Series processors.

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It's been a rough old time when it comes to benchmarking CPUs, I can tell you that. The Ryzen 9000 release back in August was let down by relatively meagre performance improvements and an unready ...

Find out more about how we test and score products.“ AMD claims its new Ryzen 9 9950X is the best processor the world has ever seen, and by some metrics, that’s accurate. It’s the flagship ...

Despite the "AI" that AMD has added to the name, I'm looking at the new Ryzen AI 300-series pretty much the same way. The test system AMD provided—a 16-inch Asus ZenBook UM5606W with a Ryzen AI ...

AMD has a pretty good track record here: the vast majority of their mainstream CPUs since the Opteron series have been overclockable, including the recent Ryzen series and FX chips ... These days, you ...

AMD's current-generation Ryzen 7000 processors have proven to be some of the fastest gaming CPUs on the planet, but even the entry-level Ryzen 5 7600 and Ryzen 5 7600X CPUs are still a fairly big ...

I thought it might have been a mistake. But when I saw that it sometimes beat out the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, its much more expensive bigger siblings, I did a double take. But the amount of gaming ...

[Editors' Note, March 2, 2023: Some scrutiny by Tom's Hardware and online commenters pointed out that our integrated graphics (IGP) testing numbers for the earlier Ryzen 9 7950X chip were ...