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 ...

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 ...

A socket is a place that houses the computer processor. Not many would give this piece of hardware the importance it actually deserves. Well, the reason could be the less obvious functional impact of ...

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 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 ...

Motherboard maker ASRock has published a guide to AM3+ motherboards that not only lets slip a few details about AMD's new AM3+ socket, but also the CPUs that will fit in it. One key concern, according ...

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, ...

We've found out recently that AMD is expected to launch 5 x Ryzen Threadripper PRO series CPUs, starting with the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX processor that will boast 64 cores and 128 threads -- ...