Hack #26 from PC Hacks by Jim Aspinwall (O’Reilly Media). Adjusting the power supply voltage to your CPU can make all the difference between an erratically performing speed-hack and a stable screaming ...

The Asus Eee PC 901 and 1000H netbooks ship with a Windows utility called the Asus Super Hybrid Engine that lets you overclock your Eee PC to run at 1.7GHz or underclock your machine to run at 1.2GHz ...

To check computer speed boost clocks, use CPU-Z (Windows) or Intel Power Gadget (Mac). This article explains how to check the base clock speed and computer speed boost clocks on Windows and Mac ...

The term "gigahertz," or "GHz," refers to the operating speed of a central processing unit; hertz defines the clock rate, or cycles per second, of the CPU. 1 GHz is equivalent to one billion hertz.

Netbooks run basically the same OS as your desktop PC, but their portability and low cost mean that they're made to run a bit slower. By overclocking you can push it just over the speed bump to where ...

If you think that overclocking is solely for performance-obsessed geeks armed with bottles of liquid nitrogen, it’s time to reconsider! Even a small bump in PC performance can delay the need to ...

One often overlooked component of any great gaming PC is the CPU. While shiny new graphics cards get all the attention, the CPU is just as important, as it determines how fast your computer is.

Almost on any Windows laptop or desktop, the speed at which the CPU runs varies. You should know that the CPU doesn’t run at full speed all the time. It depends on how the OS distributes the load, and ...

Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has explained another Windows oddity – this time, why the operating system can appear to report two different CPU speeds.… The behavior can be found in the ...

Windows PCs and laptops require a dedicated fan to support heat dissipation. The fan helps keep the hardware cool and ensures it doesn’t overheat in any intensive work or task. During peak performance ...