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 ...

AMD said Thursday that it will continue to use its AM4 processor socket straight through its next generation of Zen 3 processors, fulfilling the pledge it made to continue the socket through 2020. AMD ...

One of the main reasons AMD CPUs have proven so popular in recent years the company's policy to use the same CPU sockets across multiple generations. This has meant that a user could buy a motherboard ...

I have an HP Pavilion ze5501US notebook, which utilizes a 2.30GHz Mobile Intel Pentium 4. Per CPU-Z it's a Northwood model, socket 478 mPGA, 0.13 um. Sorry I don't have its S-code and manufacturing ...

Just curious if it's possible to replace the actial socket on a motherboard. Specifically, it's a Socket A Abit KT7. My brother was upgrading his processor, and when he went to mount the heatsink the ...

Prominent leaker Jaykihn has claimed that Intel's upcoming LGA 1954 socket will support not only Nova Lake processors, but ...

Intel released a "reduced load" variant of the ILM with Arrow Lake that mostly resolved the problem, but it was optional. It looks like Intel is releasing another variant of the ILM with Nova Lake, ...

Leaked plans for Intel’s upcoming LGA1700 socket show a radical departure from the design the company has used for the past several generations. The new V0 socket design isn’t compatible with ...