No one who assembles a PC or sets up a new computer can avoid the BIOS or UEFI. That’s where you define the basics, from the ...

Did Santa give you an AMD Radeon HD 6950 this year? Good news: he actually gave you a 6970! It turns out that with a few clicks of your mouse you can unlock your 6950 so that it runs at 6970 speeds.

AMD graphics cards are no stranger to BIOS modifications to “unlock” previously unsupported functionality. Back in April, we reported of enthusiasts flashing Radeon RX 480 GPUs with the BIOS from the ...

If you recently bought an AMD Radeon RX 480 or 470, only to now be feeling pangs of RX 500 series envy, you might be able apply a DIY solution. There are reports by several TechPowerUp forum members ...

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, today announces the latest BIOS update on AMD X570、B550 and A520 motherboards for the ...

There are reports going around of end users successfully flashing RX 480 boards with RX 580 BIOSes and picking up extra performance in the process. While it's an interesting idea, this is one project ...

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AMD’s ongoing X3D chip crisis has another wrinkle: AMD is now placing additional guardrails on AMD Ryzen 7000 as well as Ryzen 7000X3D processors, preventing them from being overclocked via a new BIOS ...

Hardware I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game Windows A recent Windows 11 ...

MSI is the first manufacturer to roll out a new BIOS update containing AMD's AGESA 1.2.0.2 firmware, which should fix intermittent USB issues for those running a Ryzen 5000 CPU on a 500 series ...

This motherboard bootloops with this CPU, with a black screen and no POST. The screen will stay black for a while, and then with an irregular timing, will restart. Kind of unpredictable when the ...