The motherboard and processor are two of the most important hardware components inside the computer. The various pieces of hardware inside the PC communicate with one another through the circuits on ...

As the term suggests, it’s the big circuit board that everything else plugs into. Everything has one at some level; for instance, the motherboards used in Apple Macs aren’t a standard off-the-shelf ...

Two of the basic components in any computer are the motherboard and the central processing unit. Both perform processes vital to running the computer's operating system and programs -- the motherboard ...

AMD has just released its fastest processor yet after more than a half decade of research and development, and Intel’s Kaby Lake processor is now available in every form that matters for a PC ...

Yesterday, my PC would turn on, but not display anything. I could hear the fans spin up, but nothing was displayed on the monitor. The on board diagnostic LED display would go through a series of ...

Every year, vendors fill the market with a veritable mass of new motherboards, all vying for your attention and wallet. There ...

The CPU OPT header is an additional connection for special processor cooling accessories, such as specialized coolers with multiple fans or water-cooling components. Functionally, CPU OPT is identical ...

Operating system patches alone can protect against the nasty Meltdown flaw affecting Intel processors, but fixing Spectre—Meltdown’s nasty sibling, which affects all CPUs—requires firmware updates for ...

AMD has revealed the first glimpse of what its 7nm manufacturing process will mean for its Ryzen desktop CPUs by detailing its new 'Rome'-based EPYC server CPU, which will offer double the number of ...