New firmware locks voltages to calm CPU crematorium

ASRock has pushed a fresh BIOS update for its 800-series motherboards, claiming better CPU and memory stability after its boards developed a nasty habit of roasting AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 processors.

Socket sizzle saga hits ASRock hardest

AMD has finally broken its silence over the smoking AM5 socket scandal, and it's pointing the finger at third-party motherboard vendors for pushing the limits.

16-pin connectors proving they’re a fire hazard

AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT has entered the melting connector hall of shame after a user on Reddit managed to cook their 16-pin power cable trying to run an ASRock Taichi OC model on a questionable PSU setup.

Mini-ITX H810 motherboard for commercial environments

ASRock has announced its new H810TM-ITX mini-ITX motherboard that is part of its Thin Mini-ITX motherboard series nd designed for commercial environments that require stability and performance.

Dual-slot Creator series Radeon AI PRO

ASRock has announced the launch of its latest graphics card, the Radeon AI PRO R9700 Creator, built to support edge AI acceleration and professional visualization tasks. Featuring a 4 nm Navi 48 silicon, the GPU comes fully enabled with 64 compute units (4,096 stream processors), 128 AI accelerators, and 64 ray tracing units. It also packs 32GB of memory, which should help with larger AI models. 

Intel slaps 24GB of VRAM on new cards 

Troubled Chipzilla has tipped up at Computex 2025 flogging a fresh line of Arc Pro graphics cards, and this time it’s all about AI.

BIOS update sorts it

AMD claims to have fixed a bricking problem with its Ryzen 7 9800X3D with a BIOS update.

Flaming expensive 

More than 100 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips have reportedly gone belly-up, most of them when nestled in ASRock motherboards.

A petabyte storage

ASRock Rack's TURIN2D48G-2L+ has just been released and it appears to go to 11 on the specs as iff no one told the designers to cut back on anything.

Ranging from $699 to $199

Most AMD motherboard partners, including Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte, MSI, and others, have already announced their X870E and X870 motherboards, and now, these are finally available in all major retail/e-tail shops. In case you missed it, these support the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 series, as well as previous Ryzen 8000 and Ryzen 7000 series CPUs, and are aimed at enthusiasts bringing better VRM, WiFi 7, and USB 4 support.