Fierce competition between Intel and AMD has pushed prices for many CPUs well below $100, making a processor upgrade more practical for older PCs. Three scenarios make a CPU upgrade worthwhile: Moving ...

Let’s say you had a SNES with a busted CPU. What would you do? Your SNES would be through! That is, unless, you had a replacement based on an FPGA. [leonllr] has been developing just such a thing. The ...

Toshiba designs and produces its Tecra laptop series with business users in mind. Tecra notebooks are manufactured using materials that are a bit more rugged than those used in consumer machines, and ...

Many gamers upgrade their CPUs every two or three generations to make sure they pair well with newer graphics cards and avoid potential bottlenecks. That makes perfect sense since an older CPU can ...

I believe that my AMD Athlon XP2800+ is failing. I use my system mostly for Flight Sim. I do not want to do a full system upgrade till mid summer. I need a review of this plan: I plan to upgrade now ...

System runs fine and I have no issues with either speed or anything Nothing. No current Intel CPU makes sense as a replacement for an i7-860 Have to agree. Not sure what Hasbro brings, but the ...

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