It wasn't long ago that an AU$500 motherboard was regarded as ultra-premium. That meant high quality motherboards were expensive. Sadly, motherboards were not immune from the all too well-known effects of inflation and wider tech industry woes. This means Z790 boards typically have improved support for high bandwidth devices and controllers, including things like more PCIe 4.0 M.2 slots or things like USB 4 or Thunderbolt 4 controllers.
Z790 is more or less an evolution over Z690 with a better I/O thanks to the inclusion of more PCIe 4.0 lanes. Just a month later, Intel released its 13th Generation CPU range accompanied by Z790 motherboards. If it has a long life like AM4 did, then you can expect to be able to upgrade to a Zen 5 or Zen 6 processor with just a BIOS flash. AMD says it intends to support AM5 for several years to come. It's just that the X series uses two of them, while the B series uses one. Four chipsets? Actually, they all use the same chip. High end X670E boards were joined by X670, B650E and B650 boards. In September, AMD released its AM5 platform, which added support for DDR5 memory. Both AMD and Intel released new platforms meaning we had a huge variety of boards to choose from. We were really spoiled for choice when it came to motherboards in 2022. Words by Ben Mansill, Joel Burgess and Chris Szewczyk. In either case that’s all good 2022 was a confusing year, but thanks to these 2023 Australian PC Awards the cream has been separated and all the good stuff properly rewarded. Maybe you agree, maybe you have differing opinions. it’s just that the lows exceeded the expected quota by an alarming amount.īut we've selected our winners and they are clear to us as the best of the best. The highs certainly weren’t in short supply. It was a fascinating year with tech highs and lows. The editorial teams at TechRadar, APC, PC Gamer and PC PowerPlay thoroughly enjoyed compiling these finalists, and then selecting the winners. We even saw some standout new techs that blew us away, like QD-OLED monitors. DDR5 got its act together and became good while affordable laptops leapt into new realms of low power and high performance. This is not to say the actual products were duds – au contraire – the tail end of 2022 in particular saw a spectacular period of new GPUs and CPUs, along with exciting new motherboard platforms. Unlike most years in tech which are clean, tidy periods where everything runs smoothly and we all buy loads of nice new things, 2022 turned that upside down with one drama after another, all in a market where actual products you could buy were scarce, expensive, or delayed. Welcome to a particularly interesting edition of the Australian PC Awards.
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