If your motherboard is being conservative with its default settings, your CPU might operate well below its true potential.

A cooler upgrade is particularly worthwhile when new processors are installed or older systems are subjected to higher loads.

So I recently upgraded from a 1070 to a 3060ti. I am looking at CPU and system board upgrade next. I currently have: So I was looking at an i7-13700KF CPU with a Gigabyte z690 board. I'm wondering if ...

The Ryzen 3 1200 is at least a 4c/4t processor. It's not particularly high end but should at least meet the min requirements for a lot of games. It should be pretty similar to the i3-9100 my son had ...

Although GPUs are often the focus for gaming, CPUs are perceived as an important upgrade too. According to AMD and Intel, we all need the fastest Ryzen 7 5800X3D or the Core i9-12900KS to get truly ...

W e all love a good PC upgrade, whether it’s a faster GPU, more RAM, or even a better cooling unit for the CPU. While these ...

Full disclosure: I have never built my own PC, though I have considered it many times. A general unfamiliarity with how the computational sausage gets made and the high price of staying up to date on ...

This article is not an upgrade guide, rather as you'd probably expect from us, it's a benchmark session, where we'll be taking an old Ryzen 5 1600 system using the MSI B350 Tomahawk and upgrade it ...

There are an array of HOT Black Friday deals on AMD and Intel processors, including the sleeper Intel Core i5-14600KF.