It's all about your motherboard's features and build quality ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor is down and out, with one user showing pictures of a toasted 9800X3D and AM5 socket ...

One of the greatest strengths of building an AMD-based machine in the last eight years has been AMD's fantastic support for Socket AM4. Socket AM5 looks much the same, with at least one more ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Noctua has confirmed that each of its CPU coolers that work on the Intel LGA1700 and LGA1851 sockets will work on Intel's next-gen LGA1954 socket that will ...

I built a gaming PC for my son, and it kept having issues where it wouldn't boot. The solution each time was to remove and reinstall the CPU, it would then work for a while - weeks to months - and ...

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 ...

However, when counting the pins, you will realize that the 2011, 2011-1 and 2011-3 actually have different pin counts. As far as I understand, all these sockets fit physically with the CPUs, i.e. you ...

The performance loss is only invisible until it isn't ...

Intel's next gen CPUs are coming to gaming PCs soon, and we've just been given our first glimpse of the socket that will be used by the chips and their supporting motherboards. The new lineup of Intel ...

In this guide, we'll show you how to fix bent CPU pins, as well as how to fix bent motherboard socket pins if you have an LGA motherboard. Bent socket pins are one of the main reasons for motherboard ...