Modern CPUs are capable of squeezing as much performance as they safely can out of the box, but that potential heavily depends on not just temperature, but also how your motherboard's BIOS is ...

AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 series looked promising from its initial benchmarks, but the first reviews and user impressions painted a much more disappointing picture. As it turns out, AMD was testing with a ...

PC bottleneck detection is made simple using Windows tools to find CPU, GPU, RAM, or storage limits and fix slow PC ...

Is your CPU running at maximum capacity and making your PC slow? This often happens when you use demanding software for graphic design, video editing, or gaming. It can be frustrating, especially when ...

Explore the 2026 ARM vs x86 battle—comparing processor architecture, CPU performance, and energy efficiency to reveal which chip design leads modern computing innovation.

A computer is a lot like an ecosystem. When all its components are functioning in a harmonious balance, a PC can whiz along at top speed, crunching calculations, booting games, and performing other ...

Benchmarking software developer PassMark publishes the average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks in a line graph. In line with what many enthusiasts might expect, the ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

AMD's 7800X3D and 7950X3D CPUs reign supreme in the gaming realm, not solely due to their core count or clock speeds, but primarily owing to their abundant cache. CPU cache refers to a small yet ...

A week ago, we were discussing the misconception that CPU performance doesn't matter for 4K gaming. We showed that although sometimes it doesn't matter – as you will indeed end up GPU limited – that's ...