The motherboard is probably the most complex PC component to upgrade, but modern operating systems and standards have taken much of the pain out of swapping in a new one. (Even so, ancillary issues ...

The key difference between a desktop computer and a laptop computer is compactness; where a desktop has room for expandable cards and new hardware features, a laptop's hardware must fit into an ...

There are a lot of reasons why you might possibly want to know who manufactured your laptop motherboard. It could be that you want to figure out the compatibility of the motherboard with another piece ...

What if the next time you upgraded your laptop, the old motherboard didn’t end up gathering dust in a drawer or, worse, contributing to the growing mountain of electronic waste? Imagine transforming ...

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article included a video guide detailing similar steps on how to build a PC. Unfortunately, that video included a number of errors in the build process, and ...