Is my cpu 64-bit compatible? Tech savvy users will likely be able to answer that question without pause. But not everyone is a tech savvy users and it often pays to have simple tools that reveal the information needed instead of having to explain, guide or find the information. 64bit Checker is one of the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Whenever I’m thinking of building a new PC I’m starting the selection process months earlier. I begin with an analysis of the needs, something that is often forgotten by users. What will the computer be used for? Will it be a gaming PC, office, photo manipulation, server or all purpose PC? What connectors do I [...]

Categories: Hardware

Real Temp is a lightweight computer software program for the Windows operating system that has been designed to provide the user with information about the temperature of Intel cpus. The software program supports Intel single Core, dual Core and quad Core processors and will display the processor temperature in real time in the application interface. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Oh not, not another process manager. I hear you, really. But Bill2′s Process Manager is something special, at least I think it is. It is optimized for multi core systems and compatible to Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. The first thing that you should do after installing the application is to switch the [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

I lost count of how many applications in Windows provide the functionality to display the temperature of the CPU. I have been using Speedfan for this purpose for well over two years by now but have to admit that Speedfan does not make it that easy to find out which temperature belongs to which component [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

We always try to lower our CPU usage as much as possible for a normal use. Still, there are situations like testing purposes when we may want our CPU to be 100% busy to test its behavior. This is usually tightly related to overclocking and probing the CPU cooling system capability along with it. Of course you can always use benchmarking applications to give your system some harsh time but it’s not necessary when you know how to increase CPU load all the way up to 100% easily in a few seconds. Note that this has only been tested on single-core computers, it prolly won’t work with multi-core CPUs.

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

First of all, Merry Christmas everyone ;)

Config Inspector is a nice little freeware application for windows operating systems that could be described as an advanced task manager. Besides offering more information about loaded applications and processes it also displays vital information about memory and cpu usage, network utilization and general windows information.

Categories: Tools

Are you planning to buy a new computer or cpu, if the answer is yes the new tomshardware guide about cpus called “The Mother of All CPU Charts 2005/2006″ is the right article for you. All in all their compared about 50 cpus ranging from the very old Athlon 1400 Thunderbird to the brand new AMD flagship Athlon 64 FX-57 San Diego. Benchmarks are taken in various fields including of course Open GL and Direct X performance, which is the most important aspect of the test for gamers, to video, audio and application performance.

Categories: Knowledge