An interesting thread of reasoning emerged at several different spots during the Research@Intel Day yesterday. The thread started with a passing mention, during CTO Justin Rattner’s introductory ...

Your motherboard, and by extension, BIOS, also has a lot of control over how your CPU performs. After being frustrated for months thinking my CPU was maxed out, I played around with these BIOS ...

BIOS power settings that can significantly boost your CPU performance and overclocking potential, including PL1, PL2, EDC, and TDC.

I was meeting with a new customer right before the holidays and part of the conversation was that they were very unhappy with the performance of their blade system in a virtualized environment. They ...

Fixing the problem of the CPU being Stuck at low clock speed in Windows requires changes to the Power Management and Processor State settings, along with identifying software conflicts as detailed ...

Tech Power Up has released a new version of its CPU power management software for Windows, making available Throttlestop 8.30 to download and install. This latest version introduces two new mini mode ...

Dialog Semiconductor Plc launched a new evaluation board for its recently introduced DA9034 IC that enables designers to configure designs based on Marvell PXA3xx application processors. The new ...

When running resource-intensive applications, you may notice unexplained drops in your CPU speed. These drops are often caused by CPU throttling, a power-saving feature in Windows in which the CPU ...

I did a motherboard swap, then reversed it as the motherboard was flaky. Okay, been there a hundred times. Only this time, Win7 took more exception than usual. After the swap, on the flaky board, it ...