So you've spent the past few weeks wringing towels, trying to decide whether you should stick with your current PC or start over from scratch. It's been a tough decision, but in the end you've decided ...

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 ...

This article is the third in a series of how-to stories on building a computer. For a video version of part three, click here. After seating the motherboard it’s time to install the CPU, or the brains ...

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 ...

First, you’ll need what looks like a custom head screw driver, perhaps a Torx, but the size is unknown. I would assume that the CPU or motherboard comes with the tool required to perform this task.

AMD's Threadripper CPU is a significant departure from any mount system the company has used before. And if you're planning to buy one of these chips, we'd strongly recommend familiarizing yourself ...