It's one of the things why we like Noctua (next to making seriously good coolers of course). Noctua today announced the impending availability of its new NM-I3 SecuFirm2 mounting kit that adds support ...

I may be mis-remembering my processor form factor history.. but here goes. I put together my existing PC about 18 months ago. At the time the Intel 1156 processor form factor was the new hotness..

Groomed for 1-mm pitch, 1,156-pin BGA devices, the SG-BGA-6230 socket accommodates a 35 mm x 35 mm package size and operates at bandwidths up to 8 GHz with less than 1 dB of insertion loss. The socket ...

The Intel Core architecture is one that has not always been a performance leader. The original Core CPUs were decent, but not that great. Starting with the Conroe based Core 2, things changed. We saw ...

The Cebit 2009 is just around the corner and already a few interesting infos are being leaked. Like the following picture of the LGA 1156 socket for the upcoming Core i5 from Intel: This one is of a ...

The finer details are little out of my reach in terms of understanding here I'm afraid. So if anyone can cut through the jargon bit it would help. I am trying to see if a PCIe SSD can be placed into a ...

Browse our Socket LGA 1156 section, featuring 23 items curated from the Motherboards category. Dive into the latest releases, detailed buying guides, expert tips, performance benchmarks, and hands‑on ...

Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz Socket 1156 reviews, pros and cons. Liked: "Northbridge" module integration. New 32 nm process node. Disliked: Quad core price tag for dual core processor.

The Intel Core i7 875K is based on Intel's 45nm Lynnfield core. It works at 2.93GHz, can process eight simultaneous threads with Hyper-Threading ...