Intel Core i5-11500 Rocket Lake-S Hits Geekbench

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Courtesy of @leakbench, we have our first glimpse of the Geekbench performance of Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake-S Core i5-11500. Single core performance comes in at 1588, while multi-core hits heights of 7265. This is a sizeable gain from the 10th Gen chips, with single core performance on this 6/12 models besting even the 8/16 Core i7-11700K that’s been tested. It still falls short of the Ryzen 5 5600X, though that task will be left for the 11600. We’ll see what happens come March when these chips are expected to officially launch.

Full result @ Geekbench

ASUS Z590 ROG MAXIMUS Boards Detailed

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ASUS began taking preorders for its Z590 motherboards just yesterday. Among TUF and STRIX series, only one ROG Maximus motherboard is currently listed on Amazon, the XIII Hero. The Hero series has always been very popular, often being the best compromise between ridiculously priced Extreme or Apex series while still offering all premium and often unnecessary features that we simply ‘want’ to have from the Maximus series.

ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Hero, Extreme, and Extreme Glacial have all been detailed in a new slide deck that was just sent to us. The presentation has a lot of details that we are not going to repeat in this post. We encourage you to just click on the first slide and enjoy the presentation.

See slides & more @ VideoCardz

Intel Alder Lake-S, 600 Series Chipsets in September?

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Hot on the heels of the 500 Series, word has it that the upcoming Intel Alder Lake-S CPUs and their accompanying 600 Series chipsets are set to launch in September. This would fit the bill as a normal Fall launch window for new Intel chips to be sure, but it makes the Rocket Lake-S and 500 Series look less shiny and new. One benefit to 500 Series buyers is that the price premium for Alder Lake-S platforms could be massive. Rumored to come with PCIe 5, and support DDR5, these two factors alone will crank up the prices. Rocket Lake-S and the 500 Series may look all the better come this September. Lest we forget, AMD is likely not far being on either of these fronts.

Read more @ VideoCardz, courtesy of Uniko’s Hardware.

ASRock X570 TAICHI RAZER EDITON

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The Razer Edition of the X570 Taichi is quite an improvement in terms of added features over the original, which was a great motherboard as well. To squeeze the even more performance out of the system, an even beefier VRM is installed with 16 phases, we’ve got an improved audio system, 2.5 Gigabit LAN, WiFi 6 via the Killer AX1650x, Razer Chroma integration and more!

Read more @ [M]adShrimps

MSI MEG B550 UNIFY – HKEPC

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MSI launches a new flagship motherboard “MEG B550 UNIFY”, featuring a luxurious straight-out 16-phase 90A digital power supply design, a full-coverage extended I/O cover and a double-sided FROZR metal heat sink, supporting DDR4 5100+ OC memory speed And PCIe 4.0 configuration, it also has 4 sets of M.2 SSD configuration, WIFI 6 and 2.5G LAN network module. The B550 UNIFY with low chipset positioning is unexpectedly good for the big brother X570 UNIFY, which is simply unbelievable.

Read more @ HKEPC (Chinese)

ASRock Taichi Razer Edition – Razer Synapse 3

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Today on OCinside.de we are testing a special RGB software that can be installed with the brand new ASRock Taichi Razer Edition motherboard. Currently available are the ASRock X570 Taichi Razer Edition and the ASRock B550 Taichi Razer Edition motherboards. With this we tested the extensive Razer Synapse 3 tool including Razer Chroma Studio and explained it step by step in this video tutorial. German with English subs. In addition, there will soon be another video with the RGB effects on our OCinside YouTube Channel. The complete review of the ASRock Taichi Razer Edition AMD AM4 motherboard will be available soon as well.

Read more @ OCInside

ASRock X570 PG Velocita

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When AMD launched their Ryzen 5000 series processors late last year we sort of got a “refresh” of X570 motherboards.  One of those boards was the ASRock X570 PG Velocita, which sits in their Phantom Gaming (PG) line.  This board is all ready for the new 5000 series processors with upgraded power stages, Killer networking for both the 2.5G LAN and 802.11ax WiFi 6, USB 3.2 gen 2, Gen4 M.2 NVMe storage, and of course a sleek design with RGB lighting.  Is this the board you need to get for your Ryzen 5000 series build? Read on as we find out!

Read more @ ThinkComputers

ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PRO (WI-FI)

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As for performance, memory overclocking was pretty good, but not quite top-tier. The ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Pro (WiFi) did well to reach 4000 MHz with the stock XMP timings on my Trident Z Neo kit, and was able to boot with the tighter C14 B-die setting at 3600 MHz, but was not able to pass stability testing with the tightened timings. However, ASUS gets points for the safeguards and aids they have put in place, which make the overclocking process simpler and less stressful. The retry logic for overclocking works very well and does a great job of recovering to the BIOS after a failed overclocking attempt.

Read more @ TechPowerUp

MSI Announces New A520, B550 mATX Motherboards

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MSI has announced two new entry-level mATX motherboards, the MAG A520M BAZOOKA WIFI and the MAG B550M VECTOR WIFI. These are both interesting boards, with the A520 board being one of the few that feature an integrated Wi-Fi solution. It features a heatsink on the VCore portion of the VRM, as well as an available M.2 heatsink. One the B550M VECTOR WIFI front, we also have another mATX form factor board featuring a similar or identical layout, VRM, etc. Click the links to find out more on each of these new boards.

MSI MPG Z590 GAMING FORCE

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Courtesy of momomo_us, we have a picture today of MSI’s upcoming Z590 motherboard, the MAG Z590 GAMING FORCE. This board features an elegant design highlighting the MSI dragon logo, as well as deep purple heatsinks and golden highlights. Large heatsinks cover the 16 phase VRM hardware, two PCIe x16 slots, three M.2 slots and more adorn the board. An interesting item ins the PCIe 6-pin power connector at the bottom of the board to further supplement power to the board. This should mainly be for the extreme overclockers.