If you guessed the RAMpocalypse is ...

The pins lined up densely on the back of a CPU, like a bed of nails, are a familiar sight in photos of old CPUs. However, ...

Likely to offer new options with DDR4 support.

Intel's next gen CPUs are coming to gaming PCs soon, and we've just been given our first glimpse of the socket that will be used by the chips and their supporting motherboards. The new lineup of Intel ...

Gigabyte says new Intel chips will land on LGA1700 in early 2027. The old socket takes DDR4, and DDR4 is what buyers can ...

AMD is reportedly ready to finally move to a new gaming CPU socket in the next few years, with the first unconfirmed details about its future AM6 socket starting to leak out. The new AM6 design will ...

One of the benefits of building an AMD PC is that the company has historically supported its processor sockets for longer than Intel does, allowing the same motherboard (and RAM kit, if you want) to ...

Looks like AMD is going to increase the pin count on its next generation AM6 socket once again. However, users may still be able to use AM5 compatible coolers as the socket size overall might not ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Noctua has confirmed that each of its CPU coolers that work on the Intel LGA1700 and LGA1851 sockets will work on Intel's next-gen LGA1954 socket that will ...

As AMD’s Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs enter the latter half of their lifecycle, many users are looking towards Zen 6, the next CPU architecture from Team Red. However, Moore’s Law Is Dead is looking ...

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 ...

Compare five of the best CPU coolers for 2026 from Arctic, Noctua, Thermalright, Corsair, and be quiet!, with cooling, fit, ...