Building your own computer can be fun, and it's easier now than ever. Still, there can be some spine-tingling moments when assembling a system, and attaching a CPU fan can be one of them. The last ...

I’m not sure how many of you out there do a lot of CPU swapping, but if you’re like me and do it every once in a while, you know the terror that strikes when the ...

i just found a neat little trick...<BR><BR>i have quite a little collection of socket 7 pentiums, and k6/k6-2 cpus, and admittidly some of the pins were bent on some of them. i used to painstakingly ...

I just finished replacing my CPU going from an AMD Ryzen 2600 to a Ryzen 3800X. I've always known AMD platforms to be a pain when removing the CPU, normally resulting in bent CPU pins. So, I decided ...

IIRC the extra pin on a 4 pin motherboard header may report if the fan has totally stopped, like a failure line, to tell the mobo to shut the CPU off. I've got an old 4 pin fan here from a '94 vintage ...