If your AMD CPU has bent pins, you may not be entirely out of luck -- even if the pins are smashed flat. Here's how we brought back two CPUs from otherwise-lethal injuries. Share on Facebook (opens in ...

[quarterturn] had an old Apple Powerbook 520c sitting around in his junk bin. For the time, it was a great computer but in a more modern light, it could use an upgrade. It can’t run BSD, either: you ...

Ever since Intel switched away from using solder to a thermal interface material on its desktop CPUs, enthusiasts have been asking the company to reverse that decision -- and occasionally cracking the ...

Solder pins have been the interface of choice for power modules for many years. New press-fit pins take the assembly properties of power modules a step further: the solder-less assembly of the modules ...