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 ...

Laptops are popular for a variety of reasons, including their convenience and portability. However, that convenience comes at a price. If you want to upgrade an individual component of your laptop, ...

Over the years, I've moved from custom-build PCs to pre-built. I'm no longer familiar with CPU and motherboard technology. I have a simple question about upgrading my processor for Windows 11, without ...

Built my current main machine in Jan. 2019 (first retirement build): i5-9600K, GTX 1080, 16GB memory, 650w PSU, some spinny storage and an SSD for booting. I tend to keep machines 8-10 years, with ...

If you’re thinking about bolstering your processing power then you’ll need to know how to upgrade CPU, including the removement and replacement of the chipset. Below, we’ve outlined the steps to take ...

If you encounter a CPU bottleneck in games you play, upgrading to a new CPU makes more sense than buying a new GPU, especially if you mostly play multiplayer games. If you play games and earn a living ...

Matti Robinson is a veteran of the industry originally from Finland, with nearly 20 years of writing and editing experience. His love for gaming started with the Commodore 64 and grew with each ...

The CPU, or central processing unit, is the brain of your computer. It is the CPU's job to coordinate communication from all of the various bits of hardware and software that make up your system, and ...

The NABU PC caused a bit of a buzz in the retrocomputing community a couple weeks back. After all, it doesn’t happen often that a huge batch of brand-new computers from the 1980s suddenly becomes ...