AMD CPU Fan Bracket Base for AM2 AM2+ AM3 AM3+ FM1 socket with Back Plate and Four Screws. Three piece settings to fit newer motherboards.

This also means AMD must stage their comeback, and in less than a year this new chip, the Zen architecture, will land in our sockets. In early 2012, the architect of the original Athlon 64 ...

Source: Brian Bailey, Semiconductor Engineering SE: While the industry has been defining interconnect standards, it’s been suggested this approach was flawed and, instead, the industry should have ...

A wide range of CPU sockets are supported as well, going all the way back to AMD’s Socket AM2, and forward to Intel’s LGA1700 and AMD’s latest Socket AM5 chips. If you want superb CPU ...

Relay sockets accept electromechanical switches in which the variation of current in one electric circuit controls the flow of electricity in another circuit. Relay sockets are made of metal or ...

IC sockets and headers are board-mounted, female connectors that serve as carriers for integrated circuit (IC) chips. They are made of metal or plastic and contain one or more rows of contacts, ...

The push clips to fit onto an Intel motherboard can be fiddly. Bought this for my socket AM3+ processor and it has to be one of the easiest fans I have fitted. Near silent and tremendous cooling.

but the process is pretty similar for PGA sockets like AM4 and AM3. The process of installing enthusiast chips like the AMD Threadripper and Intel's Xeon CPUs is slightly different, but you ...

MSI has outed its new X870 and X870E motherboards for AMD AM5 processors, including the new Ryzen 9000-series chips. The big ...

Having not built a PC for many years I was clueless how the new socket types work. ZIF sockets were barely a thing last time I built a PC so you still had to crowbar the cooler onto the CPU.