Stress testing your CPU is a great way to ensure that your overclock is stable, check that your cooling is powerful enough, or run in some new heat paste that you've applied to your processor. But ...

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 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 ...

Just like with the surge of twin tower coolers and all of the various AIO coolers that are now on the market, the hardware that needs to be cooled by it seems to get revised just as fast. This means ...

Although a PC’s gaming performance is primarily driven by its graphics card, the beating heart in any computer is still the CPU. As soon as you press the power button, whenever you open the Windows ...

#6 Liquid cooling the CPU usually has the side effect of not cooling the mainboard as much, because there is no coincidental airflow around the CPU (as compared to a heat sink with fan on the ...

One of the pillars of good PC custodianship is ensuring all your gear isn't running out of spec, which can cause slowdowns, crashes, and frustration. The chief culprit for something running too hot is ...

I have a Proxmox host with an i5 6600T CPU (4C4T part with base clock of 2.7GHz, and max Turbo of 3.5GHz). Proxmox install is PVE8, with a couple of VMs and another couple of CTs. Performance is ...