Upgrading CPUs in office computers makes a great deal of sense given that while CPU technology has advanced greatly, other components live longer lives before they become obsolete. Upgrading poses a ...

AMD said Thursday that it will continue to use its AM4 processor socket straight through its next generation of Zen 3 processors, fulfilling the pledge it made to continue the socket through 2020. AMD ...

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 ...

TE Connectivity (TE), formerly Tyco Electronics, has developed a surface-mount LGA 2011 socket specifically for Intel Corp's Core i7 and Xeon 5 CPU processors. The contacts of TE's new LGA 2011 socket ...

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 ...

AMD CPUs are among the best processors around and suit all sorts of budgets, but they are a little different to their Intel counterparts. For starters, the pins are on the chip itself, rather than in ...

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 ...

I have a home server that I'd love to start running Exchange 2007... however that is 64-bit only. The server has a socket 478 processor though. Did Intel ever release 64-Bit processors for this ...

A new slide has appeared online showing the end of socket compatibility for AMD's EPYC processors coming with 2020's Zen 3 architecture. That, by extension, would also suggest the end for the AM4 ...