The one true constant, when it comes to the world of computers, is change. Even as new items hit the market, or even during our evaluations early on here at HotHardware, newer technological ...

new motherboards will maximize Intel and AMD CPU performance with more exciting Intel Socket-478 Pentium 4 processors include the SY-645DX DRAGON Ultra with SiS 645DX / 961B chipset, SY-P4S-648 DRAGON ...

Once the dominant player for chipsets compatible with AMD's Athlon, VIA has fallen out of favor lately, it seems. The company introduced its K8T890 chipset with PCI Express support way back in ...

An industry initiative for Serial ATA II was announced this week, so it's natural to wonder where Serial ATA 1.0 is, now that it's been some six months since the new drive specification was finalized.

Serial ATA is rapidly taking over from parallel ATA in desktop PCs. James Morris explains why we need this new hard-disk connection One clear recent trend across PCs on all platforms is the arrival of ...

If you’ve ever opened a PC case and stared inside, or looked at a bare motherboard, you may be taken aback by the number and variety of connectors, pins, and slots that exist on a modern PC ...

Building a PC isn’t easy for everyone, but if you’re someone who’s planning on doing it soon or just a PC enthusiast who’s passionate about PCMR, then this is the perfect blog for you. In this column, ...

A combined signal and power interface with built-in hot-plug capability suits a new line of serial ATA connectors to blind-mate applications. The parts connect disk drives to backplanes in servers and ...

I recently got this board and went to raid 2 Western Digital 40 gig hard drives on the Serial ATA RAID controller, but I ran into a problem. I hac to connect the IDE drives to one cable and connect ...

The motherboard is probably the most complex PC component to upgrade, but modern operating systems and standards have taken much of the pain out of swapping in a new one. (Even so, ancillary issues ...