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Z890 vs. B860 vs. H810

Evan Lagergren — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:24:31 +0000

Intel has announced their latest generation of motherboard chipsets. How do the Z890, B860, H810, W880, and Q870 chipsets compare?

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AMD X870E vs X870 vs X670E vs X670 vs B650E vs B650

Evan Lagergren — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:02:55 +0000

AMD has announced their latest generation of motherboard chipsets. How do the X870 and X870E compare to the X670 and B650 chipsets?

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AMD TRX50 vs WRX90

Evan Lagergren — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 22:15:52 +0000

AMD announced Threadripper and Theradripper PRO 7000-Series CPUs. How do the two compatible chipsets, TRX50 and WRX90, compare?

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Intel Xeon W-2400 vs W-3400

William George — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 17:50:25 +0000

On February 15th 2023, Intel announced the launch of two new families of Xeon processors: the W-2400 and W-3400 series. Read about new and potentially exciting features they bring to Intel's workstation lineup and what differences there are between these two CPU families.

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AMD X670E vs X670 vs B650E vs B650

William George — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:38:00 +0000

AMD has launched their latest Ryzen 7000 Series processors, which use a new socket design and thus require new chipsets and motherboards. To fill this role, AMD is offering two chipset models with two variants each. How do X670 and B650 compare? And what differences are found in the "extreme" versions of each?

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Intel Z690 vs H670 vs B660 vs H610 Chipset Comparison

William George — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Intel's 12th Gen Core processor family initially launched with the top-end Z690 chipset, but in the months since that time Intel has added additional chipset options with varying feature sets. Now that several of those have been released, we are taking a look at the four desktop chipsets: Z690, H670, B660, and H610.

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Intel Z690 vs Z590 vs Z490 Chipset Comparison

William George — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Over the last few iterations of their mainstream Core processors, Intel has offered many different chipsets with varying features. However, within each generation one stands at the top of the product stack, usually with naming using the "Z#90" convention. Today we are taking a look at the last three such chipsets: Z490, Z590, and the latest Z690 to see what has changed over the years.

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PCI-Express 4.0 vs 3.0 Video Card Performance

William George — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:00:00 +0000

PCI-Express has been the standard for connecting video cards and other expansion devices inside of computers for many years now, and several generations of the technology have now passed. With each of those generations, the amount of data that can be transferred over the PCIe connection has increased. How much impact does that have on modern video cards? Is there any benefit to running a PCIe 3.0 card in a 4.0 slot, or loss if using a 4.0 card in a 3.0 slot?

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AMD X570 vs B550 vs A520 Chipset Comparison

William George — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:00:00 +0000

AMD has three current chipsets for their mainstream Ryzen processors, each targeting a different segment of the market with appropriate features and pricing. What is the difference between each of these chipsets, though? Knowing that can help make sure you get the right motherboard for your next workstation PC.

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Messy Memory Speed Standards

William George — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 04:30:00 +0000

Here at Puget Systems, we have tried to be careful about sticking to CPU manufacturer memory specifications - to ensure the best reliability, and to avoid overclocking memory controllers (which could, technically, violate CPU warranties). But increasingly complicated memory speed support schemes on many newer processors, combined with a lack of supply of certain speed modules, has forced us to adopt a new approach to what we offer in our workstations.

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