Alongside minimal gains, it's worth noting that manual overclocking now also results in a significantly hotter CPU as you're ...

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 ...

Okay, so I have a GA-7VTX motherboard, which was working fine with an Athlon 1.4 Ghz, but I had decided to try my hand and getting a new processor that would work on the gigabyte board given its bios ...

So I just returned the motherboard for a new build, but in retrospect it seems really hard to tell between a dead mobo and a dead CPU if you don't have the option to switch out one or the other with a ...

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If you recently upgraded or changed your CPU, and your Windows 11/10 computer is not booting up, then this post will help you fix the problem. Before we start, let’s look at the possible reasons for ...

Curious about the brain of your computer? The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is crucial as it defines your computer’s capabilities and how efficiently it can run software applications. Here’s how you ...

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.

After endless bad news stories concerning buggy, borked and broken Intel CPUs, now it's AMD turn. Yup, the Reddit threads are alive with the sound of expiring AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs. Specifically, ...

Snapdragon processor naming convictions have become a lot more confusing recently, especially with the Snapdragon 7 series with new sub-variants. To summarize, we have three categories in the ...

In his article, we will see how to lower the CPU temperature. CPU is the Central Processing Unit in a Windows computer. It is a chip that handles all the calculations to perform different tasks. How ...