When looking for a new motherboard, especially if you haven't built a new PC for a while, it's only natural to research as many aspects as possible. After all, we've all had buyer's remorse at some ...

So you've installed a new hard drive and expanded your computing horizons with new PCI cards - and that's great and everything - but your computer still runs too slowly. Sure you've got all that extra ...

A fast memory technology that requires power to hold its content. Static RAM (SRAM, S-RAM) is used for high-speed registers, caches and relatively small memory banks such as a frame buffer on a ...

I'm preparing to build a home "server" and I wanted to know if this kind of RAM would work on consumer motherboards. Motheboards that I have in mind are AM3/AM3+ socket, 880G chipset/990FX chipset and ...

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it’s all about your questions and our community’s answers. Each week, we’ll dig into our question bag, provide ...