In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly-launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it’s all about your questions and our community’s answers. Each week, we’ll dig into our question bag, provide ...

The processor battle is a two-way arms race with fans on one side or the other. We know that all your gamers have strong feelings about Intel vs. AMD, so we've gone ahead and chosen the best of each.

The latest release of 7-Zip, version 25.00, significantly enhances its multithreading capabilities on Windows platforms by enabling the use of more than 64 CPU threads. This update is especially ...

The new Intel Alder Lake CPUs include P-core and E-cores (performance and efficiency cores) so Intel created Thread Director to manage all of those cores and threads more efficiently than ever before.

Pro Intel's most powerful CPU ever may have been spotted - 86-core Granite Rapids-WS has a 4.8GHz base speed and will give AMD's ThreadRipper HEDT a run for its money Pro Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

This is in sharp contrast to Intel's pricing strategies, which have tended for years to run more toward "pick the CPU you can afford" than "pick the CPU that fits your needs." The best example of this ...

This past week Sony took a major step toward the next generation of PlayStation consoles, officially announcing the PS5 by name and confirming that it's launching during the holiday season in 2020.

Page 2: CPU Scaling Tests: 1080p (Continued), 1440p Game Testing Page 3: CPU Scaling At 4K, Conclusions And Our Recommendations For A Balanced Gaming PC Back in The Day, figuring out which PC ...

AMD is gearing up for the unleashing of its next-gen Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series "Storm Peak" CPUs, with another tease at the monster everything-crunching Zen 4 processors. The new Ryzen ...

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 ...