A computer motherboard's bus speed has no effect on the installed CPU's speed. In a computer, the motherboard and the CPU are two separate components and do not impact the performance of one another.

The motherboard and processor are two of the most important hardware components inside the computer. The various pieces of hardware inside the PC communicate with one another through the circuits on ...

Intel’s 13th-generation desktop CPU refresh is interesting because processors throughout the lineup are picking up extra clusters of four or eight E-cores, significantly improving how they handle ...

Laptops are popular for a variety of reasons, including their convenience and portability. However, that convenience comes at a price. If you want to upgrade an individual component of your laptop, ...

Want to squeeze more performance from your CPU? Learn how to overclock your processor to safely boost speed and performance. Palash has been writing about technology (and entertainment) for over a ...

TL;DR: AOOSTAR's new MoTD motherboard supports AMD's latest Ryzen 9 9955HX3D and 9955HX processors, featuring 16-core Zen 5 CPUs with up to 5.4GHz and advanced cooling. It offers PCIe 5.0 slots, DDR5 ...

We were fans of the Framework Laptop when we reviewed it last year. This was partly because its modular design prioritizes repairability and upgradeability when most other laptops don’t. But we also ...

It’s universally accepted that comparing CPUs across laptops is nigh impossible. Differences in cooling and overall design between laptops make it almost impossible to separate pure CPU performance ...

With a plethora of options out there thanks to renewed competition between Intel and AMD across various silicon-based frontiers of late, end-users have become the ultimate beneficiaries of innovations ...

If your laptop fans start sounding like jet engines anytime you open more than three browser tabs and everything slows to a crawl, you're likely facing the consequences of CPU throttling. It's not a ...

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 ...

Faster hardware shouldn’t be this somber. Yet we can’t help but furrow our brow in concern over Intel’s fourth-generation Core i7 CPU, Haswell. Yes, in typical Intel fashion, it’s a tour de force of ...