Computer CPUs that are running too fast or too hot can have their speed turned down through a technique called "underclocking." Depending on the motherboard and CPU, the system BIOS can feature ...

Processors continue to get faster and faster, but the frontside bus (FSB) remains one of the biggest bottlenecks on system performance. Most major manufacturers, including Intel, Motorola and AMD, are ...

Although the ability to expand a home computer with more RAM, storage and other features has been around for as long as home computers exist, it wasn’t until the IBM PC that the concept of a fully ...

I have a 1.1GHz T-Bird, on an Asus A7A266 mobo, 128MB PC266 ram. When I assembled the thing (some time ago), at the bios I just selected the 1100MHz option on the CPU speed and left the CPU multiple ...

Overclocking, the practice of running a computer's processor at a faster speed than its factory rating, is frequently practiced by enthusiasts and gamers, but can also be a useful business tool.

The PC has had its fair share of bus slots. What started with the ISA bus has culminated, so far, in PCI Express slots, M.2 ...