Frustration during repair jobs often comes from not having the right tool or bit size at hand, or from the tool’s battery suddenly dying mid-task. These are the inconveniences that Hong Kong-based ...

AMD is writing the book on socket longevity and it's doing it with AM4, which is approaching a decade of service. Just when you thought we'd seen the last hurrah for the aging platform when AMD ...

AMD has just dropped yet another Socket AM4 CPU, breathing yet more life into the aging platform. The new AMD Ryzen 5 5600F has just been launched nine years after AMD first introduced Socket AM4 in ...

Something to look forward to: Intel has long faced criticism for frequently changing CPU sockets, making desktop upgrades more expensive and complicated. That trend could be about to change, however, ...

When AMD launched its Ryzen processors on a newly minted AM4 socket in 2017, it was a game changing moment. Finally, AMD was bringing back real competition to Intel. But while Ryzen was killing off ...

AMD's Socket AM4 is arguably the most successful motherboard platform of all time. It gave users incredible upgrade options. While it's easy for tech enthusiasts to be enamored by the latest and ...

Why it matters: Just when you thought AMD was ready to move on from the trusty old AM4 socket, Team Red seems to have one more trick up its sleeve. According to recent entries at the Eurasian Economic ...

Turnabout is fair play: At CES 2024, AMD launched desktop versions of its mobile Ryzen 8000 processors, bringing AI to the desktop alongside integrated graphics. And for AMD fans who aren’t quite ...

It’s been almost two years since AMD introduced its Ryzen 7000 series desktop CPUs and the Zen 4 CPU architecture. Today, AMD is announcing the first concrete details about their successors. The Ryzen ...

AMD says this is ‘the world’s most powerful desktop consumer processor.’ AMD says this is ‘the world’s most powerful desktop consumer processor.’ is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...

Exciting news for owners of AMD Socket AM4 motherboards and PCs - AMD has announced a yet unknown series of Ryzen 5000-series 'XT' processors. The the really interesting part is that they're for its ...