Chris is the former Editor of Pocket-lint. He has been a technology journalist since 2008 and has covered the rise of Android and reviewed just about every important device along the way. Chris lives ...

Multi socket servers have been around since the dawn of enterprise computing. The market and technology has matured into 2-socket x86 and multi core highly integrated processors. In this piece, I hope ...

Noctua has unveiled its latest NM-M1 enthusiast-grade multi-socket mounting kits designed to enhance the compatibility and performance of Noctua CPU coolers. These kits cater to coolers with 83mm and ...

Every day, countless family arguments arise on the subject of who gets to charge their device on the move. Sometimes a car just doesn’t have enough power sockets to go round, and that’s why ...

Although most performance PC users will opt for Intel when building a new system, AMD has had some viable alternatives, particularly in the budget sector, for some time. However, there is a potential ...

Noctua has released its new NM-M1 multi-socket mounting kits that are meant as an upgrade for Noctua's existing coolers and are based on Noctua's new SecuFirm2+ standard. The new Noctua NM-M1 ...

The arrival of eight and 12-core x86 chips may make per socket software licensing seem like a good deal for users of Microsoft server software. The new multicore technology promises to let them ...

Until now I've never really had enough cores in a box to worry too much about allocating multiple vCPU's but now that I have 2x6 core 5600 CPU's in my new vSphere hosts it's something I can consider.

With the next-gen socket AM5, AMD is departing from pin grid array (PGA) and moving to land grid array (LGA) on its mainstream chips. However, the move to a new socket with different orientation doesn ...