Upgrading your processor often feels like upgrading your smartphone—it's exciting to unlock new performance capabilities, but it comes with a frustrating reality: you will probably need a new ...

The Thermaltake Frio ships with a pair of 120mm fans, complete with individual fan-speed controllers. It supports all current CPU sockets, from LGA775 and LGA1366 to Socket AM3, and it certainly feels ...

New chipsets from AMD and Intel are in short supply – the current platforms have been around since 2022, so motherboard manufacturers are getting creative to sell new hardware after all. In the case ...

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Noctua has unveiled its latest NM-M1 enthusiast-grade multi-socket mounting kits designed to enhance the compatibility and performance of Noctua CPU coolers. These kits cater to coolers with 83mm and ...

ASRock claims that the reason some owners of its 800-series motherboards have found their new PCs unable to boot, or even damaging their CPUs, is because of debris in the socket. Reportedly, after ...

Inside a PC, a stereo amplifier, or a smartphone, one red line runs through them all: The circuits inside generate heat, and something's got to keep things cool. The hardware used to keep PC ...