Installing a new Intel processor is an important step in any PC build or upgrade. Get it wrong and you could cost yourself hundreds of dollars. Here's the right way to install a new Intel CPU and ...

The beating heart of any PC is its central processing unit, or CPU. With so much on the line, you want to get it right. Swing over to our guide to the best CPUs for gaming for help with choosing your ...

So you've spent the past few weeks wringing towels, trying to decide whether you should stick with your current PC or start over from scratch. It's been a tough decision, but in the end you've decided ...

Choosing the best new CPU is a big deal, but once you’ve done it, you’ll need to install the device. Installing an Intel CPU is just as easy as installing an AMD one, with some minor caveats that make ...

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 ...

Be extremely cautious when installing AMD or whichever drivers that you are installing the correct versions for Windows Vista. Many manufacturers now manufacture driver sets that will work universally ...

Your CPU is an important component in your PC, so like graphics cards, it should probably have its own CPU drivers, right? Not in this case. While there are drivers that are called chipset drivers, ...

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 ...