Gigabyte resurrects 8-year-old B450 chipset with new motherboards — AM4 budget king returns as another DDR4 solution to exorbitant RAM prices
Gigabyte resurrects 8-year-old B450 chipset with new motherboards — AM4 budget king returns as another DDR4 solution to exorbitant RAM prices

Gigabyte has quietly launched the B450M D3HP and B450M D3HP WIFI6E motherboards based on the AMD B450 chipset, which launched in 2018.

Maxsun Terminator B850M Pro II Motherboard Review: Comparable features, but US pricing is over MSRP
Maxsun Terminator B850M Pro II Motherboard Review: Comparable features, but US pricing is over MSRP

Maxsun’s Terminator B850M Pro II is a decent budget option in the Micro ATX form factor, but only if you can find it for the $199.99 MSRP.

Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM free when you buy AMD’s 9900X and an Asus TUF motherboard — $659 Newegg combo saves $274, and you get a free 240mm AIO
Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM free when you buy AMD’s 9900X and an Asus TUF motherboard — $659 Newegg combo saves $274, and you get a free 240mm AIO

Save $274 and snag 16GB of DDR5 RAM for free in this 3-item Newegg combo with Ryzen 9 9900X, Asus TUF Gaming X870E-Plus Wifi7, and 16GB of dual channel Team Group T-Force Vulkan RAM

Analysts see ‘increasing foundry success conviction’ as Intel CEO puts $12 million more of his own money in company — analysts point to accelerating foundry progress and capex expansion

Intel’s Lip-Bu Ran reportedly buys $12 million worth of Intel stock as analysts believe that the management is increasingly convinced about landing external customers.

Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell’s MSRP to a staggering $16,000 — 96GB card started pre-orders below $8,000 last year
Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell’s MSRP to a staggering $16,000 — 96GB card started pre-orders below $8,000 last year

A data center GPU has become more expensive because of the AI boom enabled by unprecedented data center buildouts — shocking. Nvidia’s RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell is now twice as costly as it was last year at the time of its launch, and 20% more expensive than even a couple of months ago.

Nova Lake CPUs with cut-down E-core clusters may still retain full cache pool, says new leak — 8P+12E config predictions revised from 33MB to 36MB, 4P+4E config from 15MB to 18MB
Nova Lake CPUs with cut-down E-core clusters may still retain full cache pool, says new leak — 8P+12E config predictions revised from 33MB to 36MB, 4P+4E config from 15MB to 18MB

A new leak from Jaykihn says some Nova Lake SKUs, including mobile counterparts, will retain the cache config of their fully-enabled variants despite having reduced E-cores.