I first noticed this bent pins thing when I started to look at Z77 motherboards and I was reading Newegg reviews. It seemed to be mostly an issue with Asus motherboards. Some people claimed they ...

Oyster Bay, N.Y. — Mill-Max Mfg. Corp. has released a surface-mount Z-Bend socket that is suitable for placement near the board edge for easy access test connectors and for creating pluggable adapter ...

TL;DR: A Reddit user reported a burned AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and AM5 socket, likely due to installation error. The user experienced "00" postcodes, and ...

I was in the process of changing out a pair of stock heatsinks with the stock Thermal Interface Material. The TIM had melted nicely and made a strong enough bond that it pulled the Opterons out of ...

ABIT were one of many manufacturers to show us their new CPU socket, PCI express, DDR2 mainboards which will be coming on to the market soon. You guys never had it so good! The new CPU sockets about ...

Hardware leaker Jaykihn on X (Twitter) claims that Intel's LGA1851 socket for Arrow Lake processors will support two independent loading mechanisms (ILMs): a default one similar to LGA1700 and a ...

Suiting low-profile I/O applications, the surface-mount Z-Bend socket is assembled parallel to the board surface. The SIP socket can be placed near the board edge for test connections as well as ...