F or some, installing a CPU is one of the easiest parts of building a new PC. For others, it can be nerve-wracking, especially if they're doing it for the first time. While the ba ...

Released in March 1994, Socket 5 was primarily designed for second-gen Intel P5 Pentium processors. However, it was also ...

A Reddit user experienced a concerning problem with AMD's best CPU, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. The chip seems fried, and the PC won ...

A shipping manifest suggests Intel Core Ultra Nova Lake CPUs use a new LGA1954 socket, and won't work with LGA1851 Arrow Lake ...

ASRock cleaned and removed debris from the motherboard's CPU socket and fired ... Modern CPU sockets typically have a lot of pins dedicated to power and ground, so missing a few of these might ...

So why are motherboards so technically irksome? It’s because as far as hardware goes there’s a lot riding on them. They have ...

While Intel has not confirmed any details, this shift suggests that users who adopt Arrow Lake may find themselves needing a ...

The PC motherboard that superseded the Baby AT design. The ATX layout rotated the CPU and memory 90 degrees, allowing full-length expansions to be plugged into all sockets. The power supply blows ...

Reportedly, after cleaning the sockets of some of the motherboards sent back to it ... had no obvious damage or burn marks in the CPU power supply area (VRM), and all measurement data of the ...

Realizing that the motherboard has the ability to have an external voltage regulator board, [Necroware] made one so that the Socket 7 board could supply more than a single voltage to the CPU- the ...