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Generally, yes. Ryzen CPUs tend to be more energy-efficient and produce less heat, which is good for your electricity bill and means you might not need a super-fancy cooler. Intel’s newest chips are ...

Welcome to The Drive, a weekly column looking at some wacky, interesting, cool, and pivotal things within the tech space! Curated by PC Hardware Lead Editor Richard Edmonds through almost two decades ...

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 ...

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 ...

PC freezing, going slow, or running into hitches where it shouldn’t? Even if you have one of the best processors, high CPU usage could be to blame. Unfortunately, if you aren’t too computer savvy, ...