Deciphering all the jargon surrounding sockets and chipsets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A socket is the array of pins and ...

In context: Have you got your eye on one of Intel's Comet Lake-S desktop CPUs? If so, you'll need a new 400-series motherboard with an LGA 1200 socket, but the good news is that those with an LGA115x ...

Skylake-S is a 14nm processor that is set to replace the Core i7 4790, Intel’s so-called Haswell refresh part, and according to some early information we gathered it might launch at Computex 2015 or ...

Computers have used socketed processors for most of the PC’s lifespan, with a few notable exceptions like Intel’s cartridge-based Pentium II and III aside. These sockets change every few processor ...

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If you read the previous news-item, you will have noticed that Skylake processors (Core series 6000) will be based on Socket LGA1151. A company called Colorful just is showing an iGame-Z170 ...