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 ...

There’s one thing that will strike fear into the heart of any PC gamer: a CPU bottleneck. It’s unimaginable that you wouldn’t get the full power of your GPU when playing games, which is often the most ...

For AI and similar enterprise workloads that are heavily reliant on GPU and storage resources, CPU bottlenecks can cause ...

My dad has a PIII @666. For some reason (not overclocking) it runs equivilant to a 1.4 Ghz P4. But graphics are aweful. He's running an old Voodoo 4000 with 16mb. He just wants to upgrade graphics ...

I've been watching and reading CPU reviews for quite a while. For the past few CPU generations, it seems like reviewers have added several useful workloads (e.g. tile-based rendering and video ...

Matching compatible PC components such as a motherboard and processor is crucial as you'll encounter instability issues or ...

AMD’s 7800X3D and 7950X3D hold the top spot in CPUs for gaming, not because they have the most cores or the highest clock speeds, but because they have the most cache. But what is CPU cache, anyway?

RISC-V chip startup AheadComputing has raised $21.5 million in a seed funding round. Led by Eclipse and with participation from Maverick Capital, Fundomo, EPIQ Capital Group, and Tenstorrent CEO Jim ...

Wild Hearts will be receiving a patch next week to address CPU bottlenecking on "mid to high-end" CPUs, according to a statement from developer Omega Force. Although Wild Hearts will be officially ...

When working with big computer data, the information can run into a bottleneck, and moving data from storage to processing takes too long. UC San Diego’s professor of computer science and engineering ...