Fluctuation in the voltage or current rating of a circuit is known as a power surge and it can dismantle the working of that device. To put this simply, these power surges have the potential to harm ...

A hobbyist programmer named Piotr "maniek86" Grzesik recently unveiled his latest project. The M8SBC-486 motherboard is ...

Chipset architecture used to be split into two main chips: the Northbridge for fast stuff like the CPU and RAM, and the ...

There's a surprising amount of code running before the OS even loads.

When you disconnect your computer’s power supply from the wall, it jumps in to save your BIOS or UEFI settings in your motherboard’s CMOS-RAM (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor). But even the ...

The motherboard is one of the most integral pieces of the PC building puzzle because your choice of board answers a ton of questions for you before you even get started with anything else. It ...

Motherboards have gotten pretty outrageous over the past few years. Back in the day, spending $500 on a motherboard was seen as extreme, but nowadays, we have boards that cost $1,200, like the MSI ...

If you were around for the early days of the personal computer revolution, you’ll no doubt recall the excitement every time IBM announced a new version of its beige boxes. For a lot of us, the ...

If you would like to be able to increase your on-board memory to a whopping 256GB of DDR5 memory, you might be interested to know that ASUS has released BIOS updates for its Intel 700 and 600 series ...