Buying Guides & Articles:Processors and Upgrades

We share 41 timely tips for choosing the right computers and peripherals right now... Read more

Fierce competition between Intel and AMD has pushed prices for many CPUs well below $100, making a processor upgrade more practical for older PCs. Determine which... Read more

This is a brief starter guide to buying a board and processor, and it's wise to research further once you've worked out roughly what your requirements are... Read more

Upgrading your laptop to a faster, more powerful processor can extend its life span and boost your productivity--but it isn't a project for the fainthearted. We show you... Read more

Buy new computer equipment and peripherals with an eye on the future... Read more

The 4200+ is the least expensive of the new Athlon 64 Dual-Core processors, but $500 is only cheap compared to the other members of the X2 line which can cost as much as... Read more

There are two things you can take away from this review; the first is that the Northwood core has been long overdue and now that it is here, the Pentium 4 is a much more... Read more

Now armed with final silicon, our stance on AMD's Athlon 64 X2 doesn't change at all - AMD clearly has the faster overall dual core desktop solution, but at a price that... Read more

Virtualization also fits in very nicely with the idea of "Green Computing"; by consolidating servers and maximizing CPU processing power on other servers, you are... Read more

The performance of the Pentium D 820 is poor but not surprising. The Pentium D 820 runs at a speed equivalent to that of when their faster versions would down-clock to... Read more