Once upon a time, not overclocking your CPU meant you were missing out on a major free performance boost. A smidge of manual tweaking and a bigger cooler would have yielded you a significantly faster ...

Beyond a point, an obsolete CPU starts losing support for modern features that can contribute to gaming performance. In CPU-bound titles like simulation, RTS, competitive FPS, and even heavy ...

Modern processors keep getting hotter, and it seems like CPU coolers just keep getting bigger to accommodate them. There are some truly monstrous modern CPU coolers — especially passive models ...

I was searching through some CPU and motherboard reviews today, and realized that the performance difference between modern-day DDR motherboards (Socket A and Socket 478) and CPU's is basically ...