I did a motherboard swap, then reversed it as the motherboard was flaky. Okay, been there a hundred times. Only this time, Win7 took more exception than usual. After the swap, on the flaky board, it ...

Overclocking could almost be considered a lost art at this point, thanks to modern technologies and algorithms that handle everything for you. Modern AMD and Intel processors can automatically adjust ...

When running resource-intensive applications, you may notice unexplained drops in your CPU speed. These drops are often caused by CPU throttling, a power-saving feature in Windows in which the CPU ...

I was meeting with a new customer right before the holidays and part of the conversation was that they were very unhappy with the performance of their blade system in a virtualized environment. They ...

I was recently deploying a virtual appliance, and found that a very specific BIOS setting on CPU power management was causing consistency issues in my vSphere cluster. Specifically, if I used one host ...