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To check computer speed boost clocks, use CPU-Z (Windows) or Intel Power Gadget (Mac). This article explains how to check the base clock speed and computer speed boost clocks on Windows and Mac ...

Overclocking, the practice of running a computer's processor at a faster speed than its factory rating, is frequently practiced by enthusiasts and gamers, but can also be a useful business tool.

As Ebay wisely notes in its buying guide, "the CPU will limit how fast anything can occur in the system." That's an important fact to remember when choosing a processor for your computer. Although ...

Arm Holdings on Wednesday raised the clock speed of its Cortex A9 processor to 2GHz, with the aim of boosting application performance while drawing less power. Arm designs processor cores that are ...

There was once a time when a processor ran at a single, set clock speed. It ran at that speed all day, every day, unless it was purposely over or under-clocked by a user. In this simpler time there ...

Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has explained another Windows oddity – this time, why the operating system can appear to report two different CPU speeds.… The behavior can be found in the ...

Hack #26 from PC Hacks by Jim Aspinwall (O’Reilly Media). Adjusting the power supply voltage to your CPU can make all the difference between an erratically performing speed-hack and a stable screaming ...

An Israeli company claims to have developed a processor that computes at the speed of light because it uses optics instead of silicon. The start-up company, Lenslet, says its processor will enable new ...