Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest chip manufacturer, is due to update its current desktop platform codenamed Dragon with an upcoming Leo platform, which is reportedly planned for release in April 2010. According to recent details that have surfaced on the Internet, the new platform is going to provide users with faster processors, combined with the chip maker's new line of DirectX-capable Radeon graphics cards. According to a recent AMD enthusiast platform roadmap that surfaced in a news-article on vr-zone, the world's second largest chip maker is expected to provide its cus... [read more >>] Motherboard maker ASUSTeK will reportedly showcase an upcoming motherboard dubbed M4A785-M EVO, which features AMD's next-generation RS880G chipset. Pictures of the new mobo have just surfaced the Internet, just days away from the show that will kick off on June 2. One of the main features of AMD's upcoming desktop platform is the possibility to provide computer enthusiasts with a higher-performance, integrated GPU, the RV620 graphics processing unit. Among other things, this new chipset offers support for DirectX 10.1 graphics and will likely be a choice for gamers on a budget.AMD's next-generation 8-series chipsets will pro... [read more >>] With the 2009 edition of Computex just days away from its debut, news reports are starting to surface about some of the products and devices that will be showcased during the show. Such is the case with a recently leaked motherboard from Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS, which could showcase one of its first designs for the upcoming P55 chipset. A picture of a yet unannounced P7P55 PRO motherboard from ASUS has recently surfaced on the Internet, showing some of the features and details that could be enabled for Intel's upcoming Nehalem-based Core i5 processors. The aforementioned board, which has just surfaced on Xfastest, boasts the... [read more >>] Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices is expected to update its desktop computer platform with the release of the highly anticipated RD890 chipset, accompanied by the southbridge chip SB850. The details on these two products have been scarce but, thanks to a recently leaked roadmap of AMD's future products, we now have a more general idea of what to expect from the upcoming platform, which is slated to become available sometime in the fourth quarter of this year. Additionally, the leaked roadmap also details some of AMD's other future products, including the 785G chipset, a refresh to the current 780G. According to a... [read more >>] ASUS has come up with a motherboard that is completely different from anything currently on the market. Dubbed the ASUS Marine Cool concept, the new mobo is set to provide its users with support for one really mean consumer PC. The idea behind the Marine Cool concept is to enable a board that offers the maximum PC performance and a number of high-end features, unavailable in competitive products. One of the main things about the Marine Cool concept board is the use of SO-DIMM memory slots, which replace the normal-sized desktop grade DIMMS. Present at the company's booth at CeBIT 2009, the board managed to draw the attention of the pu... [read more >>] It looks like we should be expecting a few more products from the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker, NVIDIA, as recent rumors point to a new nForce 980a SLI chipset. Said product is slated to be released next month, which could mean that motherboard makers might be showcasing some new products, based on the aforementioned chipset, at the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany. However, according to a recent news-article on vr-zone, the chipset will come out as a rebranded version of NVIDIA's current nForce 780a SLI. The first details on this new product were leaked when ASUS first announced its upcoming M4N82 Deluxe boar... [read more >>] After much anticipation, Sunnyvale, California-based AMD has finally unveiled its latest motherboard product, coming in the form of a new AM2-compatible 760G chipset. The new model, which the manufacturer quietly introduced yesterday, has been designed to provide PC users on a budget with an alternative to low-cost, performance-capable desktop platforms. The new chip boasts built-in HD 3000 graphics and is meant to provide a lower-cost alternative to the company's impressive 780G chipset.The new chipset is available immediately and can provide its users with support for DirectX 10 graphics, specifically due to the integrated ATI Radeon... [read more >>] The next-generation of processors from Advanced Micro Devices, namely Athlon X4, Phenom II X3 and Phenom II X4, have already been announced to receive a new chipset from the company at a certain point in the second half of the next year. To be more precise, the part will be an AM3 chipset, manufactured under the 55nm fabrication process, and it is expected to hit the market in the third quarter of 2009. According to the latest news on the Web, the chipset will be named AMD 880G and is supposed to be part of the AMD Live! "Pisces" platform. The RS880 should include a lot of innovations in several areas like performance, HD video capability e... [read more >>] ASUS, one of the leading manufacturers of high-performance motherboards, has recently made public a list from its current motherboard lineup that will be capable of supporting AMD's upcoming desktop processors. These new processors will be built to work on socket AM3-enabled motherboards. Fortunately, some of the ASUS motherboard owners will be lucky enough to have their motherboard provide support for the new AMD CPUs, with just a simple BIOS update. With the inevitable launch of Intel's next-generation desktop processors, the Core i7s, some may have forgotten that AMD is also set to unveil its next-generation proc... [read more >>] News about another motherboard maker preparing an X58 board has surfaced the Web. This time, the information is about ASUS, and the board is named P6T6 WS Revolution. Pictures of the product were published by Xfastest once again. This new motherboard has some surprising characteristics, as it comes with an NF200 chip and no less than six PCIe x16 slots. The catch with this motherboard is that it won't have the same bandwidth for all six PCIe x16 slots. Besides, although it comes with an NF200 chip, it won't have extra PCIe lanes either. The NF200 is reported to also add some latency, yet it shouldn't be noticeable. Also, the ... 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