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 ...

The process of reviewing desktop CPUs at PCMag carries on core traditions that date back to the establishment of PC Labs in 1984: We compare each CPU in its category based on price, features, upgrades ...

Do you think your computer is running a little slow lately? Or there is some problem with the processing speed. You might want to take it to a service center to get it checked, but before doing that, ...

Maxon’s popular Cinebench CPU benchmarking program just got a long-overdue update to bring it up to parity with modern PCs. We’ve already tried it, on two of the most powerful CPUs you can buy today, ...

If you receive an error telling you your computer has failed the CPU test, this can be a result of issues in your BIOS, your computer overheating or faulty hardware ...

Just how many CPU cores do you need for PC gaming? The conventional wisdom for the last few years has been four or even two cores—if you have Hyper-Threading. That convention got upended with DirectX ...

Milpitas, Sunnyvale, and Fremont, Calif. – Open-Silicon, Inc., MIPS Technologies, Inc., and Virage Logic have achieved successful 65 nanometer (nm) silicon testing of a processor test chip at 1.1GHz, ...

AMD lost out to Intel’s Core i9-13900K recently, but it’s back with its 3D V-Cache technology to challenge Intel again. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

Is your Mac’s performance not as good as it once was? Wondering if there might be a problem with your software or if one of the components has failed? Or perhaps it’s your web connection that’s ...

April 13, 2014. GOEPEL electronic has announced the availability of special VarioTAP model libraries for universal processor emulation for application processors of the i.MX51/i.MX53 family by ...

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 ...

Standardized, repeatable testing underpins everything we review at PCMag. Here's how we evaluate desktop CPUs, from pure processing trials to gauging a processor's nuanced effects on graphics ...