Upgrading CPUs in office computers makes a great deal of sense given that while CPU technology has advanced greatly, other components live longer lives before they become obsolete. Upgrading poses a ...

Intel's next gen CPUs are coming to gaming PCs soon, and we've just been given our first glimpse of the socket that will be used by the chips and their supporting motherboards. The new lineup of Intel ...

Not much is known about AMD’s monster Threadripper chips at this point except that they’ll appear this summer with up to 16 cores. You can now add another factoid to the fire though: The socket for ...

AMD has been selling “Ryzen AI”-branded laptop processors for around a year and a half at this point. In addition to including modern CPU and GPU architectures, these are attempting to capitalize on ...

Upgrading your CPU can be a frustrating experience, even though the physical acts of removing an old processor and installing the new one are pretty easy. The more difficult questions to answer are ...

Leaked images of a purported Intel Granite Rapids Xeon 9000 CPU socket have been put under close scrutiny. It is estimated that the socket is a massive 1.7X larger than the current gen Intel Sapphire ...

Which legacy socket(s) accepted both Intel and AMD CPUs? Released in March 1994, Socket 5 was designed for second-gen P5 Pentium processors among other Intel parts, but could also accept AMD K5 chips, ...

Did you know, there was a CPU socket that accepted both Intel and AMD chips? Released in March 1994, Socket 5 was primarily designed for second-gen Intel P5 Pentium processors. However, it was also ...

AMD released some of the first details about its upcoming Ryzen 7000 processors, 600-series chipsets, and the new AM5 CPU socket earlier this week. We learned that Ryzen 7000 chips will perform at ...