Upgrading CPUs in office computers makes a great deal of sense given that while CPU technology has advanced greatly, other components live longer lives before they become obsolete. Upgrading poses a ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a small thing that only people building and upgrading their own PCs will appreciate but to the delight of AMD enthusiasts, the company recently announced that it would make its future Zen 3 ...

AMD said Thursday that it will continue to use its AM4 processor socket straight through its next generation of Zen 3 processors, fulfilling the pledge it made to continue the socket through 2020. AMD ...

Leaked images of a purported Intel Granite Rapids Xeon 9000 CPU socket have been put under close scrutiny. It is estimated that the socket is a massive 1.7X larger than the current gen Intel Sapphire ...

Can you feel that? We're getting closer to Intel catching up to where AMD was a few years ago, with Intel's first-ever 7nm CPU not too far away now with Meteor Lake being teased again. The latest on ...

Not much is known about AMD’s monster Threadripper chips at this point except that they’ll appear this summer with up to 16 cores. You can now add another factoid to the fire though: The socket for ...

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A new slide has appeared online showing the end of socket compatibility for AMD's EPYC processors coming with 2020's Zen 3 architecture. That, by extension, would also suggest the end for the AM4 ...