Every year, vendors fill the market with a veritable mass of new motherboards, all vying for your attention and wallet. There ...

Usually, when you plug some RAM and a charger into a board, then press the power button, your board should boot up and eventually show the BIOS on the screen. However, there will be some caveats – ...

What if the next time you upgraded your laptop, the old motherboard didn’t end up gathering dust in a drawer or, worse, contributing to the growing mountain of electronic waste? Imagine transforming ...

Elvis Shida is a Tech/Hardware Writer from Kenya. He has been building PCs for a decade and is keenly interested in motherboards, monitors, and gaming TVs. When not building PCs or writing about ...

The buzzy Framework Laptop—designed to be fully upgradable—launched to much fanfare last year. We tried its just-released 12th Gen Core upgrade kit, swapping in a whole new mainboard and leading-edge ...

Framework sells modular laptops that use a series or Expansion Cards to let you choose which ports the laptop has, and the laptops also feature user-replaceable parts including mainboards, displays, ...

We were fans of Framework’s modular, upgradeable laptop when it was released last year, thanks to its nice design and user-replaceable RAM, SSD, and ports. Today the Framework folks are making it ...

Around fifteen years ago, a high quality motherboard could actually increase system performance because it had better memory controllers and more functions. Nowadays, the memory controllers are ...

Planning a carefully coordinated all-white PC build? We've collated some need-to-know mo-bo info for your convenience.

We were fans of the Framework Laptop when we reviewed it last year. This was partly because its modular design prioritizes repairability and upgradeability when most other laptops don’t. But we also ...

Fluctuation in the voltage or current rating of a circuit is known as a power surge and it can dismantle the working of that device. To put this simply, these power surges have the potential to harm ...