We've published Ted Landau's comprehensive tutorial on invisible files in Mac OS X as a consolidated document (previously published in three installments) available to Pro subscribers. The tutorial ...

How do you install a CPU? While your graphics card is undoubtedly the main driver when it comes to gaming, it's also essential to upgrade your CPU now and then. With higher clock speeds, as well as ...

If you think that overclocking is solely for performance-obsessed geeks armed with bottles of liquid nitrogen, it’s time to reconsider! Even a small bump in PC performance can delay the need to ...

Computers offer greater value when you can keep them running for a long and productive working life. Replacing your CPU's current processor with a faster upgrade can enable you to extend the ...

As graphics cards have grown more powerful, the amount of weight put on your processor while gaming has decreased drastically. This means for most people, you don’t need to shell out hundreds of ...

Before starting with different troubleshooting methods, check if your PC supports the app or program you’re trying to install. Also, check if you’ve downloaded the correct version of the software ...

A beefy CPU cooler: Overclocking, by its very nature, makes your CPU run quite hot. If you're using the Intel cooler that came with your processor, you probably shouldn't overclock—at the very least, ...

Undervolting your CPU can be a great way to improve its operating temperatures and reduce its power draw, but if your chip is running too hot and heavy most of the time, undervolting can actually ...

The metal clip is what's supposed to hold the heatsink on...how did you attach it? The goo, or thermal compound is supposed to be applied to the bottom of the heatsink (where it touches the chip). You ...

What is the best gaming CPU? Your choice of processor will fundamentally affect your PC's frame rates, so you want to make sure you buy the very best gaming CPU you can afford when building a new PC.

Now that the megahertz race has slowed down in the desktop processor world, the new race is all about cores. To that end, Intel just announced its first 10-core desktop CPU, the Core i7-6950X Extreme ...

30.07.2014, Taipei, Taiwan - First introduced during the 2014 Taipei Computex, the innovator of PC thermal peripherals CRYORIG is now releasing the H5 Universal as part of a new line of single tower ...