The motherboard and processor are two of the most important hardware components inside the computer. The various pieces of hardware inside the PC communicate with one another through the circuits on ...

I've been looking into putting together a cheap server to host VMs for a home lab, my main need is a lot of RAM. I ran across some Dell dual LGA 771 server boards pretty cheap, such as part # J7551.

Yesterday, my PC would turn on, but not display anything. I could hear the fans spin up, but nothing was displayed on the monitor. The on board diagnostic LED display would go through a series of ...

Modern motherboards are fairly resilient, but they’re not impervious to damage. So when your mobo appears unresponsive upon powering your system, it can cause momentary heart palpitations. Some mobos ...

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Of all the metrics we commonly discuss at ExtremeTech, we'd argue TDP (Thermal Design Power) is easily the worst. If clock speed, core counts, IPC, and memory bandwidth are imperfect methods of ...