Sometimes, even the best intentions aren't spared from unpleasant consequences. After avoiding cleaning my PC for three years, I decided to do it one fine day, thinking it was finally time. As I ...

Repasting is cheap and easy to do, generally. I'd give that a shot. While you're doing that, make sure no dust bunnies have built a nest in the heatsink fins. Modern systems will park cores and do ...

No, it wasn't the cooler either. Just how it was mounted.

If you've every thought thermal paste was a bit boring, you would have been right...until today! Cooler Master for some reason or another has decided to paint a CPU using its multi-colored Cryofuze 5.