Your PC can feel brand new or painfully obsolete, and the difference often has little to do with the processor logo on the ...

With the launch of new CPUs or GPUs, if there's one thing consumers wait for the most, it's gaming benchmarks. Seeing how the latest and greatest pieces of silicon perform in the latest titles seems ...

To check computer speed boost clocks, use CPU-Z (Windows) or Intel Power Gadget (Mac). This article explains how to check the base clock speed and computer speed boost clocks on Windows and Mac ...

Everyone has heard that mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Well, the central processing unit (CPU) is the powerhouse of the computer. It's the brain, and without a CPU in your computer, ...

AMD self-leaked the first reveal of its Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU on its own French support page, which was picked up by X user Olrak29 on Sunday. By Monday, AMD removed the listing, but not before chip ...

TL;DR: PassMark has crunched its benchmark data and observed a drop in CPU performance so far in 2025, theorizing about whether this might be down to hardware, or software issues (such as bloatware, ...

If you're a budding young tech enthusiast or simply a casual PC purchaser, you may have seen "cache" listed in the specifications for this or that processor and wondered what exactly that is. It's ...

So you just dropped four figures on your newest desktop upgrade and a big chunk of that was the latest and greatest in screaming multi-core processors. But how long will it last…and will overclocking ...

Fire up the 2013 remix of the Eagles "Desperado". Listen to the beat: That's 60 beats per minute, or to an engineer, 1 Hertz (Hz). Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" is around twice that. It sounds fast, but ...

Did you know that AMD's old Zen 3 architecture, released back in late 2019, is actually faster for gaming than Intel's latest Raptor Lake architecture used for their 13th and 14th generation Core ...

In today's market, the CPU landscape is predominantly defined by two major camps: Intel and AMD. With its significant market share, Intel holds the mantle as the leader in the CPU industry. However, ...

Hello everybody. Well, come Tuesday I am expecting an SGI 320 to show up. Bought it off of a fellow for 90 bucks shipped- a bit cheaper then they seem to go for on fleabay anyway. This whole thing ...