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 ...

I believe that my AMD Athlon XP2800+ is failing. I use my system mostly for Flight Sim. I do not want to do a full system upgrade till mid summer. I need a review of this plan: I plan to upgrade now ...

I am currently running on an i7-860 system with 8GB of RAM that I built in early 2010. System runs fine and I have no issues with either speed or anything but I am looking towards putting together a ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Although it's safer than ever to overclock your hardware, disaster can and does strike. Manufacturers ...

Toshiba designs and produces its Tecra laptop series with business users in mind. Tecra notebooks are manufactured using materials that are a bit more rugged than those used in consumer machines, and ...

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 ...

Hardcore PC gamers and other speed freaks have long used overclocking as a technique to squeeze the last drops of power out of their processors, but it's not without its risks — the rise in speed ...

Just as automotive engine performance defines the core of a vehicle's speed, processor speed is one of the keys to computer performance. As processor technology advances, manufacturers promote the ...