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This is how the brand new LGA1700 processor socket looks like for Intel Alder Lake processors. Published a live photo of the motherboard on the Z690 chipset
One of the users of the famous Chinese forum Bilibili posted a live photo of a new motherboard. The signature says about the model on the Z690 chipset – the top for the next generation Intel Core processors (Intel Core 12 or Alder Lake). The set of components indicates that the model itself is top-end.
For example, this is indicated by a 20-phase CPU power subsystem – motherboards of the middle and even more so the entry-level cost less phases. This model will clearly deliver good overclocking and is therefore geared towards enthusiasts. The insider also mentions NDA – non-disclosure agreement. In this case, Intel obliges partners not to provide any data on motherboards for CPU Alder Lake before their official premiere. Of course, posting a photo violates this agreement. True, there is no model or manufacturer marking on the board, so it will be difficult to convict someone of violating the NDA. In addition, engineering samples of motherboards based on Z690 and B660 chipsets are already being sold in China, so the model captured in the photo may be just one of those that leaked to the black market.
The photo shows the LGA1700 socket live for the first time – with Alder Lake Intel is switching to a new socket. As you can see, there is enough room around it to install a large cooler, but it should be noted that a number of components are missing on the board. For example, there are no two EPS connectors on top.
Layout feature of the board: several M.2 slots are located one after another between PCIe x16 slots. There are not many models on the market with this kind of connector placement, and one of them is the EVGA Z590 Dark. It is possible that the board shown in the photo was also created by EVGA engineers.

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But Intel only managed to release competitors for the Threadripper 5000. Asus confirms that the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 will be released in the second half of the year

AMD is indeed going to launch Ryzen Threadripper 7000 processors in the second half of this year. Previously, these were just rumors and leaks, and now this was announced by an Asus representative.
Interestingly, he mentioned this in a video demonstrating the work of the Intel Sapphire Rapids WS platform, the processors of which are currently competing with the Threadripper 5000, but soon they will have to compete with the Threadripper 7000.
Threadripper 7000 will switch to a new socket and a new Zen 4 architecture. This will bring them support for DDR5 memory, probably PCIe 5.0 interface. In addition, the top-end Threadripper 7000s are expected to be 96-core, just like their sister Epyc Genoa.
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JetStream are back. Palit GeForce RTX 4080 and 4070 Ti JetStream graphics cards unveiled – and they have one notable difference from the competition

Palit returns to the production of JetStream video cards. More than two years after the release of the GeForce RTX 3070 JetStream, the company introduced the GeForce RTX 4080 and 4070 Ti JetStream. These models differ from analogues in the absence of RGB backlighting.
At one time, manufacturers of various hardware were so carried away by the introduction of backlighting into everything that is possible that now its absence is already perceived as a “trick”. On the other hand, the frequencies here are completely standard, and from this point of view, the lack of backlight is more of a savings factor.
Video cards look almost the same – and rather modestly. However, they are long – 329 mm (after all, there are three fans) and rather thick (they take up 3.1 slots). It is possible that dual-fan models will also appear in the JetStream series, but already based on the GeForce RTX 4070 or GeForce RTX 4060. The cost of new products has not yet been announced.
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MSI CreatorPro X17 HX powerful mobile workstation introduced. With Core i9-13980HX, GeForce RTX 3500 Ada Laptop and Mini-LED 4K display

After Nvidia officially announced new mobile 3D workstation accelerators based on Ada Lovelace architecture yesterday, MSI today unveiled its flagship CreatorPro X17 HX workstation with such graphics. More specifically, the laptop uses a dGPU GeForce RTX 3500 Ada Laptop with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory.
Display – Mini-LED with a diagonal of 17.3 inches, a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels and a frame rate of 144 Hz. The display meets the requirements of the DisplayHDR 1000 standard and provides coverage of 100% of the DCI-P3 color space.
There are four slots for installing RAM, with a maximum of 128 GB of RAM. There are also two M.2 SSD slots, one of which supports PCIe 5.0.
Laptop configuration includes IR webcam, SteelSeries customizable RGB keyboard, fingerprint scanner, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, four Dynaudio system speakers, two USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 , three USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A, one each Mini DisplayPort and HDMI 2.1.
The battery capacity is 100 Wh. Notebook dimensions – 397 x 330 x 23 mm, weight – 3.3 kg.
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