The term bottleneck in a computer is derived from the physical object it references and the phenomenon of slowness it creates.

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For many PC users, a CPU bottleneck is the scariest thing that can happen to them. The moment they hear this term, their mind conjures up images of crippled performance, lackluster framerates, and ...

A new AMD Ryzen CPU benchmark leak has just appeared, and it shows the potentially awesome power of the company's new Threadripper CPUs for multi-threading work. This new leak appears to show the raw ...

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A benchmark leak has revealed that there could be a new Nvidia CPU in the works with an integrated GPU that's as powerful as an RTX 5070. It has long been rumored that Nvidia is preparing its own CPU ...

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Does consistently failing a specific test on Memtest86 while passing every other test provide a clue about whether a memory problem exists or if the problem is CPU memory controller ...