If your motherboard is being conservative with its default settings, your CPU might operate well below its true potential.

Smart upgrades can transform your gaming PC. Learn the best PC components for 2025 and get performance tips from this gaming ...

The Ryzen 3 1200 is at least a 4c/4t processor. It's not particularly high end but should at least meet the min requirements for a lot of games. It should be pretty similar to the i3-9100 my son had ...

Although GPUs are often the focus for gaming, CPUs are perceived as an important upgrade too. According to AMD and Intel, we all need the fastest Ryzen 7 5800X3D or the Core i9-12900KS to get truly ...

Fierce competition between Intel and AMD has pushed prices for many CPUs well below $100, making a processor upgrade more practical for older PCs. Three scenarios make a CPU upgrade worthwhile: Moving ...

Some laptops let you upgrade the memory or storage… although that’s a feature that’s becoming less common on modern thin and light notebook computers. But very few laptops support CPU upgrades — ...

AMD self-leaked the first reveal of its Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU on its own French support page, which was picked up by X user Olrak29 on Sunday. By Monday, AMD removed the listing, but not before chip ...

Although the CPU is soldered on, the L2 cache is a slot-removable scheme, and engineers managed to put a G3 upgrade there. Sonnet, the defunct Vimage, and the also defunct Newer Technology all made ...

PowerLogix and Other World Computing are using their exposure at this week’s Macworld Expo to highlight new product offerings aimed at users of older Power Macintosh systems who want to upgrade their ...

20 years ago, I was a pretty prolific PC-builder, if I do say so myself. Various EDN hands-on projects were the primary motivation; my late-1999 article, for example, showcased Intel’s SE440BX and ...

Your old Mac is sitting there getting older and, if your mind isn’t deceiving you, slower. Apple’s Power Mac G5 has arrived on the scene, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get more life out of your G4.

The other day a Microsoft employee giving a presentation at WinHEC accidentally suggested that the Asus Eee PC S101 has a dual core Intel Atom processor. But the truth of the matter is that while ...