Building a new gaming PC involves a lot of crucial steps which are delicate and intimidating. From firmly slotting the RAM ...

The motherboard, sometimes abbreviated “mobo,” is the most basic part of the PC, but also one of the most important as all of your internal components will interact with it. Our motherboard is an EVGA ...

This article is the second in a series of how-to stories on building a computer. For a video version of part two, click here. The motherboard, sometimes abbreviated “mobo,” is the most basic part of ...

For some, installing a CPU is one of the easiest parts of building a new PC. For others, it can be nerve-wracking, especially if they're doing it for the first time. While the basics of securing a CPU ...

AMD CPUs are among the best processors around and suit all sorts of budgets, but they are a little different to their Intel counterparts. For starters, the pins are on the chip itself, rather than in ...

This article is the third in a series of how-to stories on building a computer. For a video version of part three, click here. After seating the motherboard it’s time to install the CPU, or the brains ...

Small form factor computers, which are often used where space is limited, such as medical offices and call centers, typically use smaller motherboards as a part of their small case size. The microATX ...

Operating system patches alone can protect against the nasty Meltdown flaw affecting Intel processors, but fixing Spectre—Meltdown’s nasty sibling, which affects all CPUs—requires firmware updates for ...

I've never installed a cpu or heatsink before.<BR><BR>The heatsink is a Tai-Sol standard looking thing. It looks like it's attached with thermal tape -- Is it ok if I just pull the heatsink off the ...