Fierce competition between Intel and AMD has pushed prices for many CPUs well below $100, making a processor upgrade more practical for older PCs. Three scenarios make a CPU upgrade worthwhile: Moving ...

Let’s say you had a SNES with a busted CPU. What would you do? Your SNES would be through! That is, unless, you had a replacement based on an FPGA. [leonllr] has been developing just such a thing. The ...

Over the years, I've moved from custom-build PCs to pre-built. I'm no longer familiar with CPU and motherboard technology. I have a simple question about upgrading my processor for Windows 11, without ...

I am currently running on an i7-860 system with 8GB of RAM that I built in early 2010. System runs fine and I have no issues with either speed or anything but I am looking towards putting together a ...

Many gamers upgrade their CPUs every two or three generations to make sure they pair well with newer graphics cards and avoid potential bottlenecks. That makes perfect sense since an older CPU can ...

Toshiba designs and produces its Tecra laptop series with business users in mind. Tecra notebooks are manufactured using materials that are a bit more rugged than those used in consumer machines, and ...

We’re on the edge of a new generation of gaming CPUs — 13th-gen Raptor Lake from Intel and Ryzen 7000 from AMD. If you’re reading this on the day it’s published, in fact, AMD is set to launch it’s ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Although it's safer than ever to overclock your hardware, disaster can and does strike. Manufacturers ...

We’ve covered the Alienware Alpha quite a bit, including a formal review. Several of us on staff have been enjoying this micro PC for a number of reasons. But if you purchased the lower-end model ...