If you're a loyal desktop PC user, you know that processors are the driving force of the PC industry. Outside of PC games (where the graphics card rules), processor performance is what you'll notice ...

Have you ever wondered what those confusing letters and numbers at the end of the CPU mean? Every year, Intel and AMD release new generations of their CPUs with updated specifications and sometimes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. pedrosala / iStock / Getty Images Computer hardware refers to the physical components that make up a computer system. Many ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As expensive as it may be to buy or upgrade a PC right now — what with the costs of GPUs, SSDs, and memory increasing in the wake of the AI ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. When it comes to the ...

I already posted a similar thread here 3 years ago when I wasn't sure if my processor at that time was AMD Athlon XP1500+ or AMD Athlon XP2000+ (that why I put "yet again" in the title), while now I ...

A bit of controversy surrounded Intel's LGA 1700 socket, which it used for Alder Lake and Raptor Lake CPUs. In some builds, the retention mechanism was found to apply uneven pressure to the CPU, ...