I did a comparison of the Optimus Foundation AM4 block to the Corsair XC7 RGB CPU block in the same system. When I built my open loop, the Optimus Foundation AM4 block I ordered was on back order. I ...

The king is dead, long live the king, as AMD continues to support its immensely popular nine-year-old platform with yet another processor. With two dozen processors in the Ryzen 5000 series alone, and ...

AM4 is the CPU socket that just refuses to die. Nearly a decade after first making its way into motherboards, AMD is still releasing new processors for the long-lived setup, still delivering upgrade ...

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