While at my friend's house last Friday, I noticed one of his CPUs (a 750Mhz Duron) had a lot of excess paste around the core. I tried to use a wooden toothpick to scrap it off, but it just smeared ...

I have an ASUS CUSL2 and a P3-800EB (133 FSB) which I've been running at stock speeds for about 1.5 years. I'd like to try overclocking it but before I do I want to do a better job with the heatsink.

Adrian has been a tech enthusiast since the 90s with a particular passion for gaming that developed thanks to his first gaming outings on Pong, Zork and Space Invaders. In the years that followed he ...

Q: What’s the proper way to remove a cooler from a CPU? I don’t want to accidentally rip the CPU out of the socket and bend the pins. Usually warming up the thermal paste before unmounting a CPU ...