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This is part of a series of posts about the circumstances leading up to the launch of the Altair 8800 in the January, 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. In my last post, I talked about the dawn of the ...

Intel XTU is an application that allows you to manage your computer’s performance. If it is overheating, you can undervolt the CPU; if you think performance is an issue, you can overclock it. In this ...

The processors in today’s computers have grown tremendously in performance, capabilities and complexity over the past decade. Clock speed has skyrocketed, and size has dwindled, even as the number of ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

The CPU contains a clock which, along with the CU, is used to coordinate all of the computer's components. The clock sends out a regular electrical pulse which synchronises (keeps in time) all the ...

The CPU contains a clock which, along with the CU, is used to coordinate all of the computer's components. The clock sends out a regular electrical pulse which synchronises (keeps in time) all the ...