If you've been sitting on a fence about whether to go dual-core, dither no more. The prices of dual-core processors have come way down in the past year, and performance has jumped. Here's a guide to ...

What a difference a year makes. One year ago, we were dazed, dazzled and beguiled by the arrival of dual-core processors. Offerings from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. had analysts, ...

Considering all the buzz that VIA’s low power, high performance Nano processor got this summer, it feels like the chip has fallen off the face of the earth. I’m not aware of a single netbook using the ...

If I have a computer with a 2.66GHz quad-core processor, will it run my software and games faster than my 3.2GHz single-core Pentium 4? Yes, quad-core CPUs are generally much faster than single-core ...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS requires a dual-core 2GHz CPU and 6GB RAM, which is more than Windows 11's 1GHz and 4GB minimums.

Our creative director Aurich Lawson is building a PC to power a custom arcade cabinet, and he was having trouble picking a processor. Not because he didn’t know what he needed, but because he was ...

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 "Dual Edition" is coming soon, pitched for high-end gamers and professional creative work alike. With 16-cores on the Zen 5 architecture, the standout specs are the 208MB of ...

AMD doesn’t have to do much to stay on the top of the heap for PC gaming CPUs. The class-leading Ryzen 7 9850X3D doesn’t have ...

What would the results of a dual-core desktop CPU fight look like? Many people equate Windows PCs with Intel Pentium processors (and soon will likely be doing the same with Macs), but we've seen ...

The new flagship packs a total of 208MB cache, helping deliver modest gains in gaming, rendering, and content creation.

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon.

Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen part ...