Once upon a time, not overclocking your CPU meant you were missing out on a major free performance boost. A smidge of manual tweaking and a bigger cooler would have yielded you a significantly faster ...

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 ...

At Computex, AMD introduced a new 3D V-Cache desktop processor and resurrected an old one. Here's why you should think ...

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Like many pre-21st-century technological artifacts including steam locomotives, audio tapes, and 4-bit microprocessors—16-bit processors have reached the end of their useful life. Steve Leibson, ...

There are few moments that terrify PC owners like an overheating processor. It's right up there with the blue screen of death in terms of issues that could signal serious trouble for your computer.