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 ...

Upgrading your CPU can be a frustrating experience, even though the physical acts of removing an old processor and installing the new one are pretty easy. The more difficult questions to answer are ...

Although Apple would like you to believe that the smoothest road to a faster Mac is paved with the latest iMac, Power Mac G4, iBook, or PowerBook, purchasing a new computer every few months is hardly ...

The Ryzen 3 1200 is at least a 4c/4t processor. It's not particularly high end but should at least meet the min requirements for a lot of games. It should be pretty similar to the i3-9100 my son had ...

20 years ago, I was a pretty prolific PC-builder, if I do say so myself. Various EDN hands-on projects were the primary motivation; my late-1999 article, for example, showcased Intel’s SE440BX and ...

Matti Robinson is a veteran of the industry originally from Finland, with nearly 20 years of writing and editing experience. His love for gaming started with the Commodore 64 and grew with each ...

Your old Mac is sitting there getting older and, if your mind isn’t deceiving you, slower. Apple’s Power Mac G5 has arrived on the scene, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get more life out of your G4.

Although GPUs are often the focus for gaming, CPUs are perceived as an important upgrade too. According to AMD and Intel, we all need the fastest Ryzen 7 5800X3D or the Core i9-12900KS to get truly ...

Although the CPU is soldered on, the L2 cache is a slot-removable scheme, and engineers managed to put a G3 upgrade there. Sonnet, the defunct Vimage, and the also defunct Newer Technology all made ...

Think of it this way... you aren't going to save much money on a new graphics card anytime soon. Might even have to pay a little extra, right? So let's make up for that cost by getting the rest of ...

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A significant component upgrade is no small deal, which is why we’re surprised to hear that Microsoft has very quietly decided to upgrade its Surface Pro 2 slate with a faster CPU. Redmond has ...