The overall performance of a computer system depends on the performance of several of its subsystems, especially the central processing unit itself. Whether you're checking for reliability problems or ...

As we do from time to time, it is again time to upgrade the CPU cooler test rig, long past due! Not that we did not have a lot of fun testing coolers and keeping charts with over seventy CPU coolers, ...

The time has come for yet another system upgrade in which we will bench CPU coolers for the next couple of years. With Intel Kaby Lake just around the corner, we would have loved to wait it out and ...

...without being run in Windows? I have a bootable USB drive with the latest Hiren's on it, and I'll be running memtest86+ overnight to test my RAM, but I don't know of any program for stress testing ...

There are numerous reasons why you might want to stress test your laptop for music production. You might want to understand ...

Lofty clocks, lots of cores, AI horsepower to spare, and a rebuilt GPU: The new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip looks like a ...

Today we're taking a look at CPU performance in Battlefield 2042 and this may well be the most difficult benchmark we've ever done. The problem faced when trying to test a multiplayer game like ...

Many desktop users are going to be just fine with Intel’s standard desktop Core i5 and i7 CPUs. The company offers a wide range of quad-core chips with different levels of performance and power ...

If you’re buying or building a new gaming PC for Windows 10 and DirectX 12, your priority should be as many “real” CPU cores you can afford, running at high clock speeds. At least, that’s the ...