ASRock claims that the reason some owners of its 800-series motherboards have found their new PCs unable to boot, or even damaging their CPUs, is because of debris in the socket. Reportedly, after ...

Alongside minimal gains, it's worth noting that manual overclocking now also results in a significantly hotter CPU as you're ...

Crumbs in the socket, nothing to see here. So, said ASRock last week in a blog post addressing reports of dead AMD Ryzen 9000 chips in its motherboards. But does that really fly in the context of ...

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There are few moments that terrify PC owners like an overheating processor. It's right up there with the blue screen of death in terms of issues that could signal serious trouble for your computer.

So I just returned the motherboard for a new build, but in retrospect it seems really hard to tell between a dead mobo and a dead CPU if you don't have the option to switch out one or the other with a ...

Okay, so I have a GA-7VTX motherboard, which was working fine with an Athlon 1.4 Ghz, but I had decided to try my hand and getting a new processor that would work on the gigabyte board given its bios ...

If you recently upgraded or changed your CPU, and your Windows 11/10 computer is not booting up, then this post will help you fix the problem. Before we start, let’s look at the possible reasons for ...