Leading global motherboard manufacturer, ASRock, proudly announces its new ASRock Z790 PG SONIC, an officially licensed motherboard featuring SEGA's Sonic the Hedgehog. A 16-bit spinning ring emblazons the rear IO cover, while on the rear side you'll even catch a glimpse of Sonic mid-run. The ASRock motherboard is co-launched to celebrate the release of SEGA's new Sonic Frontiers game.

"Designed to bring back epic memories of catching rings in Green Hill Zone, the motherboard echoes Sonic's lightning speed with its fast blue and silver shards and Sonic silhouette, besides the motherboard outlook is designed around the Sonic the Hedgehog theme, the ASRock Z790 PG SONIC also features a SONIC-inspired UEFI BIOS interface", Said Chris Lee, Vice President of ASRock motherboard & gaming monitor business unit.

BIOSTAR, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and storage devices, today announces the brand new Z790 VALKYRIE motherboard, built to run the all-powerful Intel 13th gen raptor-lake processors. Designed on the base of Intel Z790 single-chip architecture, the Z790 VALKYRIE is the latest addition to BIOSTAR's top-of-the-line flagship motherboard range.

Carrying the latest technology in a sleek, highly refined platform, the stylish design of VALKYRIE exhuberates the pinnacle of BIOSTAR product design and technical prowess. Enter any battle with confidence backed by the unwavering performance and reliability of BIOSTAR's latest Z790 VALKYRIE motherboard. Built to support the latest DDR5 memory, Z790 VALKYRIE holds 4 DIMMs of high-speed DDR 5 memory up to 128Gb with boosted clock speeds exceeding 7200+(OC) MHz.

EK, the premium liquid cooling gear manufacturer, is happy to announce that the EK-Quantum Velocity² D-RGB—1700 water blocks are fully compatible with the newly released Raptor Lake Intel 13th Gen Core CPUs and the Z790 platform. Exactly one year ago, the EK-Quantum Velocity² water block launched and was the first EK product to feature EK-Matrix7 compatibility. Since then, it has won several design and performance awards.

These water blocks use a socket-specific cooling engine to ensure the best performance and optimal flow with low restrictions on every platform. Since the Z790 platform is based on the LGA1700 socket, the EK-Quantum Velocity² 1700 water blocks are fully compatible with the CPU socket and IHS geometry of Intel 13th Gen Core CPUs.

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), the global leading motherboard, mini PC, notebook, mobile device, and smart solution provider, will exhibit at Infocomm SEA 2022, the Professional Audio Visual event in Southeast Asia at Bangkok, Thailand, Booth no. Z12 from Nov. 2 to 4 to showcase the latest LEET gaming series, the comprehensive LIVA Mini PC family and the All-in-One PC to apply for wide range of applications.

ECS will first launch the new LEET Gaming series, LEET Gaming Motherboard Z790H7-A and LEET Gaming Barebone PC B660 during Infocomm SEA 2022. To offer users exceptional PC performance, LEET Z790H7-A designs with the next-generation technology to support the latest Intel 12th & 13th Gen Processors for LGA 1700 socket, dual channel DDR5 RAM up to 128 GB, PCIe 5.0 slot, 2.5 Gb LAN and the latest wireless networking. Besides, LEET Gaming series also provides a gaming PC system, LEET B660, for user to build their own PC more easily. LEET B660 includes a B660H7-M20 Motherboard supported by the Intel 12th Gen Processor for LGA1700 socket, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series Graphic Card or AMD Radeon RX 6000 series Graphic Card and a power supply up to 650-watt into a 26-liter system case.

Axiomtek, a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted to the research, development, and manufacturing of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency—is glad to introduce the IMB540, a superior industrial ATX motherboard featuring the LGA1700 socket for the 12th generation Intel Core i9/i7/i5/i3 processors (code name: Alder Lake-S). In addition to providing high computing performance, the IMB540 ATX motherboard features quad displays and dual GPU expansion, delivering intelligent workload optimization and highly scalable graphics for next-gen edge AIoT applications.

he Axiomtek's IMB540 is built with Intel R680E chipset and features ranging CPU options with the 12th generation Intel Core, Intel Pentium and Intel Celeron processors. In addition to this, it is equipped with four DDR4-3200 ECC/non-ECC un-buffered Long-DIMM slots with a total capacity of 128 GB. This motherboard has a total of five PCIe slots—two PCIe 4.0 x16 slots and three PCIe x4 slots—for GPU, AI acceleration, frame grabber, NIC, and motion control card configurations. The networking interfaces consist of a 2.5 GbE LAN port with time sensitive networking (TSN), a GbE LAN port, as well as a PCIe Mini Card slot with SIM slot for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/LTE connectivity. Featuring Intel Iris Xe Graphics, the IMB540 supports up to four independent displays via HDMI, DVI-D, VGA, and DisplayPort.

AMD reportedly scaled down production of its Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors in response to bleak demand across the PC hardware industry. Wccftech claims to have read an internal company document calling for reduced supply to the channel as market response to the Ryzen 7000-series is weak. This comes hot on the heels of AMD revising its Q3-2022 forecast, trimming its guidance by a $1 billion drop in revenue, citing weak demand in the PC market. However, we are seeing no deviation from the launch pricing for Ryzen 7000-series SKUs or compatible Socket AM5 motherboards. The platform went on sale from late September, on the same day that Intel announced its competing 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processors. The new Intel chips are expected to start selling from a little later this month.

Unlike 13th Gen Core processors, Ryzen 7000 series processors appear to be a victim of the platform—notwithstanding the high pricing of the processors, which start at $299 for the 6-core 7600X, buyers lack access to affordable motherboards, and have to contend with expensive DDR5 memory. Pricing of cheaper LGA1700 motherboards based on entry-level H610 and B660 chipsets with cost-effective DDR4 memory support have added depth to consumer choice, besides Intel's 12th Gen range starting from under $150.

DeepCool, a global brand in designing and manufacturing high-performance computer components for enthusiasts worldwide, announces an all-in-one (AIO), liquid CPU coolers to enthusiasts, gamers and visual content creators who are looking for extreme cooling performance and low noise level for their builds, with a uniquely looking multidimensional infinity mirror pump cap.

The DeepCool LT series all-in-one liquid CPU coolers continue to deliver outstanding cooling performance built upon our 4th generation water pump design. Featuring new flow channels with an optimized skived copper block paired with a powerful 3100rpm three-phase drive motor for solid thermal capacity. High-performance FK120 Fluid Dynamic Bearing Fans are finely tuned for static pressure performance. Topping it off introduces a uniquely looking pump cover with new multidimensional infinity mirror design sparks a mesmerizing visual effect.

Axiomtek—a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted to the research, development, and manufacturing of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency - is glad to introduce the IMB540, a superior industrial ATX motherboard featuring the LGA1700 socket for the 12th generation Intel Core i9/i7/i5/i3 processors (code name: Alder Lake-S). In addition to providing high computing performance, the IMB540 ATX motherboard features quad displays and dual GPU expansion, delivering intelligent workload optimization and highly scalable graphics for next-gen edge AIoT applications.

The Axiomtek's IMB540 is built with Intel R680E chipset and features ranging CPU options with the 12th generation Intel Core, Intel Pentium and Intel Celeron processors. In addition to this, it is equipped with four DDR4-3200 ECC/non-ECC unbuffered Long-DIMM slots with a total capacity of 128 GB. This motherboard has a total of five PCIe slots - two PCIe 4.0 x16 slots and three PCIe x4 slots - for GPU, AI acceleration, frame grabber, NIC, and motion control card configurations. The networking interfaces consist of a 2.5 GbE LAN port with time-sensitive networking (TSN), a GbE LAN port, as well as a PCIe Mini Card slot with SIM slot for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/LTE connectivity. Featuring Intel Iris Xe Graphics, the IMB540 supports up to four independent displays via HDMI, DVI-D, VGA, and DisplayPort++.

Leading global motherboard manufacturer, ASRock, proudly announces its new series of Intel Z790 motherboards supporting the latest 13th Generation Intel Core Processors. ASRock's Z790 series includes premium Z790 Taichi, including a new Special Edition Z790 Taichi Carrara, in addition to Z790 Steel Legend WiFi targeting high-end users, Z790 PRO RS, Z790 PG Lightning and Z790 PG Riptide designed for mainstream users, and also the Z790 PG-ITX/TB4, a powerful mini ITX motherboard with Thunderbolt 4 for small form factor lovers.

With the 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" desktop processors, Intel on Tuesday launched its companion motherboard chipset, the Z790. Since "Raptor Lake" desktop is based on the same LGA1700 package as 12th Gen "Alder Lake" desktop; the two are intercompatible—you can use 12th Gen processors with Z790 chipset motherboards out of the box; and you can use 13th Gen processors with Z690 or other 600-series chipset motherboards with the latest BIOS. Z790 chipset essentially sees a re-balancing of the downstream PCIe connectivity, resulting in more PCIe Gen 4 downstream lanes. Besides more downstream connectivity, you get one additional 20 Gbps USB 3.2x2 port.

While the Z690 put out up to 12 downstream PCIe Gen 4 lanes and up to 16 downstream PCIe Gen 3; the new Z790 puts out up to 20 downstream PCIe Gen 4 lanes, and up to 8 downstream PCIe Gen 3. Both chipsets use DMI 4.0 x8 as the chipset bus (connection between the processor and chipset), with bandwidth comparable to PCI-Express 4.0 x8 (128 Gbps per direction). Z790 allows motherboard designers to wire out up to five M.2 NVMe Gen 4 slots attached to the chipset, or deploy more numbers of high-bandwidth onboard devices than those possible with Z690; devices such as discrete USB4 host controllers, Thunderbolt 4 80 Gbps controllers, etc, besides a handful PCIe Gen 4 slots. The 8 PCIe Gen 3 lanes should be enough for lower-bandwidth onboard devices, such as WLAN cards, onboard 2.5 GbE NICs, or even a 10 GbE NIC.

Intel today launched its 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" desktop processors, and companion 700-series motherboard chipset. These processors are built in the same LGA1700 package as the previous generation "Alder Lake," and are backwards-compatible with 600-series chipset motherboards through a BIOS update. Likewise, 700-series chipset motherboards support older "Alder Lake" processors. With the new 13th Gen Core, Intel is broadly promising an up to 15% uplift in single-threaded performance, which has a bigger bearing on gaming performance; and an up to 41% multi-threaded performance uplift; over the previous-generation, when comparing the top Core i9-13900K with its predecessor, the i9-12900K. Intel also claims to have outclassed the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X in multi-threaded performance, and the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in gaming performance.

Intel's performance claims are backed by some impressive hardware changes despite the company sticking with the same Intel 7 (10 nm Enhanced SuperFin) foundry node as "Alder Lake." To begin with, the single-thread performance uplift comes from the new "Raptor Cove" performance-core, which promises an IPC uplift over the previous-generation "Golden Cove," comes with more dedicated L2 cache of 2 MB per core (compared to 1.25 MB per core in the previous-generation); and significantly higher clock-speeds, going all the way up to 5.80 GHz. "Raptor Lake" has up to 8 P-cores, but the company has put in a lot of work in improving the contribution of E-cores to the processor's overall multi-threaded performance uplift. This is achieved by doubling the E-core count to 16. These are the same "Gracemont" E-cores as previous-generation, but Intel has doubled the L2 cache that's shared in a 4-core Gracemont cluster, from 2 MB per cluster to 4 MB. There are upgrades to even the hardware prefetchers of these cores.

EK, the premium liquid cooling gear manufacturer, is releasing a unique pump-reservoir-water block combo for Intel 12th Gen Core CPUs and LGA 1700 socket-based motherboards. It features the latest socket-specific EK-Quantum Velocity² cooling engine, while the CPU water block has an integrated DDC 4.2 PWM pump that is cooled by the metal part of the water block acting as a heatsink. The combo is the perfect companion for ITX (SFF) builds where space for a dedicated pump and reservoir is an issue. This product effectively combined four different products into a single small enclosure for ultimate space-saving.

The product combines a Velocity² CPU water block, a genuine DDC 4.2 PWM pump with a reservoir, and a DDC heatsink. All this is contained in an assembly significantly smaller than the sum of its parts. A total of four products in a footprint of a hefty CPU water block that fits perfectly. EK-Quantum Velocity² series CPU water blocks embed the next-generation cooling engine. They use a specific combination of mounting pressure and coldplate geometry tailored for the IHS and die layout of Intel LGA 1700 socket processors. Low hydraulic flow restriction enables these products to be used in setups with weaker water pumps or lower pump speeds for added silent operation while still being able to easily achieve top performance. The lathe-turned coldplate is made with precision to cover the IHS effectively and put pressure on the die area.

Alphacool today presents the brass variants of the Eisblock Aurora XPX Pro and XPX Edge CPU coolers. Due to the high popularity of these very powerful CPU coolers, Alphacool has decided to offer these additional variants in black and chrome.

The new XPX Aurora Pro and XPX Aurora Edge models are made entirely of brass and are specially designed for processors with particularly large processor cores. In combination with the nickel-plated copper base, the waste heat of the CPU is distributed even better and transferred more efficiently to the cooling liquid. This is further supported by Alphacool's Subzero Thermal Grease, which is included with the coolers. With 16 W/mK, Subzero is currently one of the most powerful thermal pastes on the market.

Thermalright today introduced the SI-100, a C-type aluminium fin-stack CPU cooler. This appears to have a thicker fin-stack than the company's AXP-100-series coolers. Its design involves a nickel-plated C1100 copper base, from which six 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heat pipes emerge, conveying heat through a fin-stack that propagates along the plane of the motherboard. This fin-stack is ventilated by an included 120 mm TL-E12 fan. The fan features fluid-dynamic bearing, and has a top speed of 2,000 RPM, pushing up to 72.37 CFM of airflow, with 2.87 mm H₂O static pressure, and noise output of 27.7 dBA. With its fan in place, the cooler measures 120 mm x 120 mm x 99.8 mm (WxDxH), weighing 640 g. Among the CPU socket types supported are AM5/AM4, LGA1700, and LGA1200/LGA115x. The company didn't reveal pricing.

MSI tweeted a teaser of a few unnamed motherboards with a launch date of September 27. One of the shots in the teaser picture reveals "Z790," confirming that the next wave of Socket LGA1700 motherboards based on the Intel Z790 chipset will debut alongside 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" desktop processors. This could be the day on which motherboard vendors formally launch their Z790 motherboards, although availability should be in-sync with that of the 13th Gen processors. Although we know from earlier leaks that September 27 could be the launch date of "Raptor Lake," there have been no leaks about market-availability. Intel's 700-series chipset motherboards support not just 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processors, but also current 12th Gen "Alder Lake;" and you can use "Raptor Lake" processors with current 600-series chipset motherboards by simply updating their BIOS.

Here's the first picture of a Lenovo Legion prebuilt gaming desktop with what is allegedly an OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 "Ada" graphics card designed by Lenovo. The card features a mammoth 4-slot air-based triple-fan cooling solution, and draws power from a single 12+4 pin ATX 12VHPWR connector that's capable of delivering up to 600 W of power with +100% excursions (spikes). The card is installed on a custom motherboard by Lenovo which is Socket LGA1700, and likely features a 12th- or 13th Gen Intel Core processor, cooled by a liquid AIO CLC. Take this leak with a grain of salt, though. The "90" in the masked out "GeForce RTX 4090" logo has a different typeface from the one we're seeing on leaked RTX 4090 retail boxes from the likes of ZOTAC and GIGABYTE.

With a height of 21.8 mm, the new AK-CC6609EP01 low-profile CPU cooler from Akasa is shorter than an Ice-Hockey puck (which is 25 mm-tall). The cooler supports Socket LGA1700, and Akasa reckons it will go well with 12th Gen Core processors with 35 W processor base power at stock settings. Its design isn't all that different from Intel's stock HSF: an aluminium monoblock heatsink with radially-projecting fins, pulls heat through a nickel-plated copper base. The 75 mm proprietary fan is nestled into the heatsink, and some of its lateral airflow goes through the edges of the heatsink. The fan turns at speeds ranging between 600 to 3,000 RPM, pushing up to 23.45 CFM of airflow, at up to 30.75 dBA noise output. Its hydro-dynamic bearing gives it 40,000 hours life. It measures 87.2 mm x 85.2 mm x 21.8 mm. The company didn't reveal pricing.

ASRock will announce no fewer than thirteen motherboard models based on the upcoming Intel Z790 chipset, the top chipset option for the 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" desktop processors. "Raptor Lake" is backwards-compatible with Intel 600-series chipset motherboards; and the Z790 is expected to support 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" processors, since both generations share Socket LGA1700. ASRock's lineup is led by the Z790 Taichi, and its variant that features a white-marble finish, the Z790 Taichi Carrara, several models in the Phantom Gaming (PG) series, including the PG Riptide, PG-ITX/TB4, and new extensions including the PG Sonic, and PG Lightning. The Sonic Mixer brand that's making a debut with the AMD X670 chipset is also to be seen here. There's just the one Steel Legend SKU, and a couple of PRO series. The list also mentions one model based on the mid-tier B760 chipset.

Thermalright today released the Ultra 120EX Rev. 4, a classic tower-type CPU cooler. The cooler is the fourth revision of the Ultra line of coolers by the company, and offers an updated fin design, as well as a high static-pressure fan. Six 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heat-pipes draw heat indirectly through a copper base with the same electroplating (you can pair it with liquid-metal TIM without worrying about corrosion). These heat pipes pass though an aluminium fin-stack with 52 S-shaped fins that are 0.4 mm-thick and spaced 1.6 mm apart. The fin-shape increases turbulence for improved heat-dissipation to the airflow.

The included TL-B12G 120 mm fan turns at speeds of up to 2,150 RPM, pushing up to 69 CFM of airflow, at 2.87 mm H₂O static pressure. The fan features a long-life fluid-dynamic bearing. With its fan in place, the Thermalright Ultra 120EX Rev. 4 measures 132 mm x 89.6 mm x 157 mm (WxDxH), weighing 865 g. Among the CPU socket types supported are AMD Socket AM5, AM4; and Intel LGA1700, and LGA1200. The company didn't reveal pricing.

Jonsbo today unveiled the HXW ARGB White AIO CPU cooler series. Available in two variants based on radiator size—240 mm and 360 mm—these coolers are characterized by a custom-design 32 mm-thick set of 120 mm fans that push higher air-flow thanks to their greater impeller sweep area compared to 25 mm-thick fans, which allows you to run them at lower RPMs for comparable cooling performance, making them potentially quieter. The 240 mm variant is capable of handling thermal loads of up to 260 W, while the 360 mm variant is specified for up to 300 W thermal loads.

The cuboidal-shaped pump-block features a unique vertical ARGB diffuser stripe design. The pump turns at speeds of up to 2,500 RPM, with noise-level under 30 dBA. The included fans do speeds ranging from 900 to 1,800 RPM, pushing 40.1 to 85.4 CFM of airflow, with a maximum noise output of 35.1 dBA. Among the CPU socket types supported by these coolers are LGA1700, AM5, AM4, LGA1200, and LGA115x. The company didn't reveal pricing.

Dedicated to innovation in embedded board computing, AAEON are delighted to announce an impressive breakthrough in its ATX motherboard range with the release of the new ATX-Q670A, AAEON's first ATX board with DDR5 support. With this innovation, the ATX-Q670A can provide customers with an unprecedented 50% increase in bandwidth and also a decrease in power consumption compared to prior generations. Particularly suited to IoT applications, the ATX-Q670A also combines the greatest maximum SATA performance with the very fastest SSD to give customer applications access to higher I/O speeds.

The ATX-Q670A is not just faster, but also far more expansive and accommodating to higher-performance modules, offering two PCIe [x16] slots alongside both a PCIe [x4] and PCIe [x1] slot, in addition to a further three PCI slots. Such specifications, alongside the ATX-Q670A's dual graphic card support mean that it can facilitate everything from video capture to AI calculation for vision-based applications, with four independent 4K@60 Hz resolution display capabilities to complete the package.

A leaked Intel company document detailing the "go to market" (GTM) plan for its 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" desktop processors, reveals key dates associated with it. Intel will likely hold a launch event for the 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processors on September 27, 2022 (when it's September 28 in Taiwan). This happens to be the same day AMD's Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" processors go on sale. Pre-orders for these processors will open on October 13, 2022 (or October 14 in Taiwan). This is when you'll be able to order one online. October 20 is when the processors will be available to purchase off the shelf (October 21 in Taiwan). This document does not deal with review NDAs, so we'll have to guess that reviews go live somewhere between September 27 and October 13.

Built on the same Intel 7 process as "Alder Lake," "Raptor Lake" introduces an IPC increase with its "Raptor Cove" P-cores, and a doubling in the count of its "Gracemont" E-cores, along with increases in L2 cache sizes for both the P-cores and E-core clusters. The processor is said to be built on the same LGA1700 package as the 12th Gen, and compatible with Intel 600 series chipset motherboards with a UEFI firmware update. The processors launch alongside new Intel 700-series chipset motherboards that have out-of-the-box support for them.

AMD has reportedly pushed market-availability date of its next-generation Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" desktop processors from September 15 to September 27, 2022. This would clash with the rumored product-announcement date of the Intel 13th Generation Core "Raptor Lake" processor series. If true, this is possibly a move designed to prevent Intel from sharing performance numbers of Ryzen 7000-series processors in the product-announcement presentation of "Raptor Lake," as Intel can only compare the chips it is announcing with competing AMD products that are available in the market at the time.

A September 27 market availability could still mean a late-August product announcement along the sidelines of Gamescom, with product reviews in the following weeks. It's just that the market availability date is now pushed to late-September. Intel's launch cycle for "Raptor Lake" could see a late-September announcement, but it remains to be seen if product availability is immediate, or timed weeks later. The 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processor is built on the same LGA1700 package as current "Alder Lake," and compatible with existing Intel 600-series motherboards with a UEFI firmware update; although will be launched alongside new Intel 700-series chipset motherboards. AMD's Ryzen 7000-series product launch will be timed with those of compatible Socket AM5 motherboards based on the AMD 600-series chipset, and a new line of DDR5 memory modules featuring the AMD EXPO technology.

Akasa, a leading provider of fanless cases, have recently released two new examples, updated for the LGA1700 mounting size. The Galileo TU Plus and the Euler TX Plus have been designed for thin Mini-ITX motherboards, these cases can be used in a server rack (Galileo TU1 and TU3 have rack mounts included, A-ITX52-M1B and A-ITX54-M1B respectively) or can be hidden away for a clean, truly silent aesthetic.

With the newest release of Intel's 12th generation Alder Lake processors, the socket change to LGA1700 has led to an alteration in the heatsink's mounting mechanism. The Galileo TU Plus and Euler TX Plus are compatible with LGA1700, as well as LGA1200 and LGA1151 with the included mounting brackets. This ensures a tight connection between the processor and the thermal block, making the case an excellent heatsink for Intel processors from 6th generation up to the latest 12th generation.

Colorful Technology Company Limited, a professional manufacturer of graphics cards, motherboards, all-in-one gaming and multimedia solutions, and high-performance storage, introduces the CVN B660I GAMING FROZEN and CVN B660I GAMING Mini-ITX motherboards as the latest addition to the CVN Series motherboards for the 12th generation Intel Core processors. The GAMING FROZEN motherboard features a white PCB from front to back, complemented with silver CVN cooling armor heatsinks.

The CVN B660I motherboards are perfect for small-form-factor PC enthusiasts seeking a compact powerhouse. The Mini-ITX motherboard sports an 8+1 Dr MOS power phase design and two DDR4 DIMM slots support up to 64 GB dual-channel capacity, and up to DDR4-4600 (OC) frequency. The motherboard features dual M.2 slots (PCIe 4.0 + PCIe 3.0), supporting up to two NVMe SSDs for storage.