Deca means ten in Greek. Octo means eight also in Greek, but when octo is used in composite words it becomes octa-. Therefore, deca-core, means ten-core and octa-core means eight-core. Why are we using Greek words to describe the CPU or other hardware or software features, when we could very well use modern English? After […]
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Why your CPU suddenly works like crazy, although you didn’t even open some strange app? Is it possessed!? A lot of reasons may hide behind CPU sudden over-performance, from malware to system bugs, hardware conflicts, whatever! You may find the reason, or not, but until you solve the mystery you need to do something to […]
CPU-Z is a free program that lets you know your processor name and number, codename, process, package, cache levels, and also mainboard and chipset — Memory type, size, timings, and module specifications (SPD). The program features real time measurement of each core’s internal frequency. I have tried many similar Windows utilities and I find this […]
I use the Black Glass CPU RAM monitors to watch on my desktop the use of RAM and CPU. For several days my (Quad Core) CPU worked even at 60% although I was only typing! Opening the Task Manager I saw that all this activity was coming from the Identity Protection service of AVG. I […]
Even powerful computers can become unresponsive or suffer from lags. You don’t need but only load them with lots of tasks, even tasks hungry for power, such as conversions. Process Lasso is a free tool (with a commercial version offering more options) aiming at making sure you won’t have problems if you want to use […]
Core Temp is a small freeware that will monitor your CPU temperature. It shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor. You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU. Core Temp is completely motherboard independent. A logging feature allows users to easily record the temperature of […]