There have been a number of new leaks surfacing on the internet about AMD's highly-anticipated Ryzen CPUs, which are due to launch in the next few weeks and promise to take the fight to Intel in the performance stakes, ending a decade of monopoly. The leaks include the official release date, images of Socket AM4 motherboards and their pricing.

There have been conflicting reports of either a late February launch or one slightly later in early March of the AMD Ryzen CPU. The dates spotted so far are February 28th and more recently March 2, with website WccFtech claiming samples apparently on their way to journalists. The website also mentioned an official launch date and time of March 2 at 7 am. This is less than two weeks away.

As usual, readers are advised to take these details with a generous pinch of salt. However, Australian manufacturer Eyo was spotted listing several Asus AM4 motherboards, including pricing. Wccftech was again responsible for this find, but has as removed the post since has the retailer. According to Hot Hardware, the new information reveals a shot of an AMD Ryzen core, including a floating point unit and an integer engine. AMD is, in fact, switching things up from the Bulldozer architecture it has been using since 2011 that uses two integer engines and one floating point unit for each core.

Asus' Crosshair represents the flagship board from the company, just as it has for previous AMD sockets for the years now. This and the Prime X370-Pro both use the similar X370 chipset, which supports AMD CrossFire and Nvidia SLI as well as over clocking and USB 3.1, also they stand at $380 and $246 respectively.

The two cheaper boards cost just $129 and $153 but sport the B350 chipset. AMD has stated that this chipset will support overclocking, so these could be the bargain boards. They don't suppose multi-GPU configurations, though, Forbes reported.

Meanwhile, Asus has also teased some images of two of its Socket AM4 boards on social media. However, everyone knows that AM4 motherboards will require adaptors to work with older AMD-compatible coolers or a new cooler entirely. They are not compatible with previous AM3+ motherboard cooler mounting mechanisms, with several cooler manufacturers including Cryorig, Noctua, Phanteks and Thermalright offering free upgrade kits.

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