At some point, everyone learns that a CPU has a variable number of cores inside, and that number influences its performance. The next natural impulse is to find out how many cores your CPU has. The ...

Enabling all cores of a processor can improve performance and multi-tasking capabilities, reduce the amount of energy consumed by the system, and improve the overall stability of the device, as the ...

In simple terms, CPU utilization is the current percentage of CPU resources consumed by all programs. If you notice that some programs are using more of your CPU cores and hogging system resources, ...

A reader recently contacted us and asked a question worth answering in an article. How does Windows (and perhaps all OS's) take advantage of multiple cores? Alternatively, if this function is built ...

At some point you may have heard someone say that for gaming you need X amount of cores. Typical examples include "6 is more than enough cores," or "you need a minimum of 8 cores for gaming," due to ...

In this guide, we will show you how to overclock a Core i5-13600K CPU. We'll take you through the process of applying a basic manual overclock across all the P-Cores and ensuring it's stable, and show ...

Intel has patented a new technology called "Software Defined Supercore", which aims to combine two or more cores into a large ...

Intel files a patent for software designed Super Cores, which are smaller cores working together as a bigger Super Core, ...