My experience with trying to upgrade CPUs in HP laptops in the past is that, while a model may support a number of CPUs, the BIOS for each one is severely limited. Often, only a single model CPU will ...

Full disclosure: I have never built my own PC, though I have considered it many times. A general unfamiliarity with how the computational sausage gets made and the high price of staying up to date on ...

Although GPUs are often the focus for gaming, CPUs are perceived as an important upgrade too. According to AMD and Intel, we all need the fastest Ryzen 7 5800X3D or the Core i9-12900KS to get truly ...

I will shortly be upgrading my CPU and motherboard from an i5-6500 to an i5-9600K, and a B150 board to a Z390 board (Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X). I currently have 4 x 8 GB DDR4-2133 DIMMS in there. I was ...

We’re on the edge of a new generation of gaming CPUs — 13th-gen Raptor Lake from Intel and Ryzen 7000 from AMD. If you’re reading this on the day it’s published, in fact, AMD is set to launch it’s ...

The question about a i5 2500k got me wondering. I have an i5 2500k at 4.0 GHz and I was wondering how much performance am I losing if I were to get a GTX 950 Ti vs. paired with a new CPU. Hey Jason!