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Got everything together. Powered on. And nothing. Fans are spinning, Mobo LEDs are pulsating, but can't get to POST. But before I order new RAM because I have my doubts that anything is really wrong ...

There was a rumor going around that Intel would "strongly encourage" its partners to go DDR5-only for its 13th-generation Raptor Lake CPUs. That may or may not have been true, but at least one vendor ...

Those fantastic new Ryzen 7000X3D chips and their accompanying AM5 motherboards have had some teething troubles with burning hardware, as Gamers Nexus covered in a series of scathing investigations.