Title pretty much sums it up. I'm not sure if this topic has been brought up before. I always wondered why chip companies gone from using a socket based processor (socker 5,7) to a slot based one ...

Going as far back as I can recall, CPUs came in packages with pins on the bottom and laid flat on the motherboard. Then for a while, they had contacts along the edge and stood perpendicular to the ...

A comparison of all currently available PC CPUs was more than overdue and although it’s a horrible amount of work I felt forced to finally do one after Intel released not only a CPU for the high end ...

A socket is a place that houses the computer processor. Not many would give this piece of hardware the importance it actually deserves. Well, the reason could be the less obvious functional impact of ...

Computex 2016 - During our first day at Computex, we've spotted some seriously cool hardware, but one of our world exclusives is that Intel will be releasing their next-gen Skylake-E processors onto a ...

Which legacy socket(s) accepted both Intel and AMD CPUs? Released in March 1994, Socket 5 was designed for second-gen P5 Pentium processors among other Intel parts, but could also accept AMD K5 chips, ...

Forward-looking: AMD delivered their Computex 2022 keynote today and we have all the details on what was shown off. There was a semi-announcement of Zen 4 processor technology, and we got concrete ...

During Computex this year, AMD announced not only its most complex CPU to date - the six-core Istanbul - but also some cheap and cheerful additions to its value, dual-core lineup. Enter the next ...

We are getting closer and closer to Intel's big reveal and release of its next-gen 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" CPUs and with it the 600-series chipset, and more specifically the flagship Z690 chipset ...