Age

How does heat damage a CPU/GPU overtime? What changes in functionality occur when a CPU/GPU become "old" or "worn" out? I'm not talking about thermal throttling, but if a CPU does age/has sustained high temperatures over the years, does that affect when the threshold for throttle in the future...

Hey guys, first off - my current build is at the bottom of my story here. I appreciate everyone taking the time to read this. As you can probably tell from my lack of activity here, I'm THE casual of casual PC builders. I am coming up on the 5th year anniversary of my first build (of which...

Two years ago, I built my PC with an Intel Core i7-4770k and an 2x4GB kit of Corsair Vengeance 1600 MHZ RAM. About four months after that, I decided to buy another 2x4GB kit of the exact same part number. This made my original motherboard, a Gigabyte Z87-D3HP, very unstable and led to poor...