I'm considering buying a server board that has two CPU sockets, but I don't want to afford both CPUs right now. Is that a problem? Can I just add in the other CPU later like adding extra memory DIMMs?

In a nutshell: At the end of last week, an AMD report describing the features and specifications of the upcoming 5000-series Threadripper Pro CPUs was leaked. It said that all five models would have ...

The Open Compute Project Foundation celebrated its tenth anniversary at this month’s 2022 OCP Global Summit, held in San Jose, California. The Open Compute Project (OCP) itself started at Facebook in ...

For our next round of synthetic benchmarks, we ran the CPU and memory performance modules built into Futuremark's PCMark05 suite. "The CPU test suite is a collection of tests that are run to isolate ...

I have an i5 3570k. it's a really nice cpu, but my motherboard sucks. only reason I can think to keep the cpu would be if I could find a dualsocket and get it a twin. However the reason the 3570k is ...

Both Intel and AMD released dual-core desktop processors in 2005, but consumers are just now beginning to upgrade into the realm of increased hyper-tasking efficiency. The transition hasn't been ...

What a difference a year makes. One year ago, we were dazed, dazzled and beguiled by the arrival of dual-core processors. Offerings from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. had analysts, ...

Lenovo has unveiled the ThinkStation PX flagship workstations in China. The Lenovo ThinkStation PX comes with two-way Xeon scalable processors and up to RTX 6000 flagship graphic card. There are there ...

Intel's first socketed microprocessors came in a dual in-line package (DIP) with 40 connectors. The i486 used a variety of sockets, but the most popular had 237 contacts. AMD's "Socket A" for the ...

Amazon's new AWS Graviton3 CPU instances have reached Georgia, packing support for triple-sockets per motherboard: that's something you don't see every day. The new Amazon AWS Graviton3 CPU offer up ...