Compared to an iPad, even the new 16-inch MacBook Pro runs pretty hot. In my first impressions post about the latest Apple laptop, I noted that the fans went crazy pretty much any time I switched it ...

Today, Intel announced the Core i9-9900KS, which is a highly binned 9900K with 8 cores and 16 threads, and a 5GHz all core Turbo Boost. The Turbo Boost is what is important here; the 9900K offers a ...

Turbo Boost, a feature that increases the speed of a CPU's cores under certain conditions, has been available on Intel CPUs since 2008. But before I dive into what those conditions are, I need to ...

Is your laptop touchpad too hot to touch? You can drastically reduce the temperature by dropping the max processor state and ...

On paper, Intel’s massive new 10-core—yes, 10—Broadwell-E gaming chips top out at 3.8GHz. But buying one is like purchasing a lottery ticket to free overclocking—without voiding your warranty. The ...

As many of you know, Intel's crop of Core i5 and Core i7 processors has a new feature called Turbo Boost which can significantly increase the clockspeed of singular cores on the processor on-the-fly ...

I just got a Core i7-7700k. CPU-Z says the multiplier is 8 - 45. However, it's nearly always at 4.5 GHz with the sporadic jump to 0.8 GHz on a blip. I thought it's supposed to be 4.2 GHz and it will ...

Intel is getting ready to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its game-changing 8086, a 16-bit that standardized the x86 architecture for personal computing and basically revolutionized the industry at ...

Windows 10 19H2 will include optimizations to how instructions are processed by the CPU in order to increase the performance and reliability of the operating system and its applications. When a CPU is ...

The testing that I conducted was with an Intel Next Unit of Computing (NUC). NUCs are interesting as they're only 2" x 4" x 4" and the NUC line covers a very wide range of user needs. On the one end ...