An Alienware Area 51 PC owner says that Dell locked their AMD CPU to only work with its motherboards, preventing it from working in DIY systems.

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Prime Day week is never a big week for embargo lifts, and this one was no exception: no new GPU or CPU silicon, just a flood of partner cards, peripherals, and one very expensive RTX 5080. PCMag ...

This isn’t the first time that Dell has locked out its customers The Ryzen 9 9950X3D would have been the perfect addition to deliver a multi-core and gaming performance boost thanks to its 16 cores ...

My newly purchased ASUS laptop keeps restarting suddenly while in use. The frequency is about once a day based on my experience. To narrow down the cause, I analyzed the crash dump recorded by Windows ...

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D cannot be installed on an AM4 board, and that single fact frames the whole AM4 vs AM5 question in October ...

Dell are updating their lineups of Alienware 16-inch and 18-inch laptops for 2025, with Intel Arrow Lake-HX hardware and Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 graphics, as well as a slightly revised chassis ...

In case something goes wrong, make a backup of your original BIOS before flashing. Have BIOS not listed here? Submit it using GPU-Z to extract and upload your BIOS. Warning: You are viewing unverified ...

Two generations apart, AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 7900 XTX are surprisingly close. We benchmark 51 games to see where RDNA 4 pulls ahead, where RDNA 3 holds on, and which GPU makes more sense.

Press Windows + Shift + S to screenshot on a Dell laptop. Find the F10 Print Screen key, check Fn Lock, and choose a saved file or a window capture. The tricky part on a Dell is finding the key that ...

It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking of hardware temperature as one-dimensional: one GPU temperature, one RAM temperature, and one CPU temperature. However, almost every one of those components ...