The new processors are modified versions of earlier chips, but their names don't necessarily tell the full story.

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 ...

AMD Zen 6 desktop CPU roadmap confirmed: AMD's own Technical Information Portal disclosed Olympic Ridge and Medusa1 processor families for Socket AM5, revealing a 24-core chiplet CPU that trades its ...

One of the benefits of building an AMD PC is that the company has historically supported its processor sockets for longer than Intel does, allowing the same motherboard (and RAM kit, if you want) to ...

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 ...

Intel's next gen CPUs are coming to gaming PCs soon, and we've just been given our first glimpse of the socket that will be used by the chips and their supporting motherboards. The new lineup of Intel ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

AMD is reportedly ready to finally move to a new gaming CPU socket in the next few years, with the first unconfirmed details about its future AM6 socket starting to leak out. The new AM6 design will ...

Thermaltake AX1000 dual-system tower and AW-series AIO coolers go on sale in Japan September 11, 2026, with AW360 and AW420 ...

TL;DR: A Reddit user reported a burned AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and AM5 socket, likely due to installation error. The user experienced "00" postcodes, and ...