Windows 11 officially requires a Trusted Platform Module. Here's why and what to do if your old PC doesn't have one.

If Windows Update says your desktop or laptop doesn't meet the requirements for Windows 11, a bit of work under the hood ...

If you’re thinking about bolstering your processing power then you’ll need to know how to upgrade CPU, including the removement and replacement of the chipset. Below, we’ve outlined the steps to take ...

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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 ...

We began this story by buying an older graphite 400Mhz G4 tower from ebay.de some months ago. The motherboard and the manufacturing of the AGP G4 series, codenamed "Sawtooth", are in our opinion quite ...

Operating system patches alone can protect against the nasty Meltdown flaw affecting Intel processors, but fixing Spectre—Meltdown’s nasty sibling, which affects all CPUs—requires firmware updates for ...

Identifying your BIOS version from the command prompt is easy. Start by typing "command prompt" in the Windows taskbar search ...

Your computer's Basic Input/Output System or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface shouldn't need to be updated that often, but a hardware bug or compatibility issue may require it. Our team tests, ...