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 ...

Although the CPU is soldered on, the L2 cache is a slot-removable scheme, and engineers managed to put a G3 upgrade there. Sonnet, the defunct Vimage, and the also defunct Newer Technology all made ...

Rahim is a Senior Tech/Commerce Writer at Valnet and builds PCs & networking solutions on demand. Whether It's your GPU, CPU, Display, or just an SSD upgrade, expect him to have a well-researched ...

20 years ago, I was a pretty prolific PC-builder, if I do say so myself. Various EDN hands-on projects were the primary motivation; my late-1999 article, for example, showcased Intel’s SE440BX and ...

Upgrading to Windows 11 might take a little tinkering if Windows Update says your desktop or laptop doesn't meet the requirements.

The main processor (CPU, “Central Processing Unit”), the main memory (RAM, “Random-Access Memory”), and the dedicated graphics card with its graphics processor (GPU, “Graphics Processing Unit”) are ...

PowerLogix and Other World Computing are using their exposure at this week’s Macworld Expo to highlight new product offerings aimed at users of older Power Macintosh systems who want to upgrade their ...

The other day a Microsoft employee giving a presentation at WinHEC accidentally suggested that the Asus Eee PC S101 has a dual core Intel Atom processor. But the truth of the matter is that while ...

Current configuration:<BR>ASUS P5N32-E SLI (680i) chipset<BR>2GB OCZ 800MHz DDR2 4-4-4-15<BR>EVGA 8600GTS 512MB<BR>Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33GHz<BR>ATI TV Wonder 650<BR>3 dvd-rw<BR>400MB Drive running ...

Apple announces its new M5 processor with up to 10 CPU cores, 10 GPU cores, a 30% performance jump in graphics, 30% more ...