For years, clock speed ruled the roost. It was the one metric you could point to, devoid of context, to say one component was "faster" than another. It's literally right there in the name. Clock speed ...

Genres are pretty well established, and you can have an excellent time playing PC titles with something as affordable as a Steam Deck. Yet the quest for maximizing performance continues, and a weapon ...

At the heart of all computers is a clock, a dedicated timepiece ensuring that all of the parts of the computer are synchronized and can work together to execute the instructions that the computer ...

Back when computers were harder to come by, and regularly banished to the ubiquitous computer room if they were in the home at all, they had a few features that can seem a little tricky to place the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There are a lot of components to pick out when you're building a PC, but one of the most important elements of gaming and digital rendering ...

Overclocking makes it feel faster, but it can’t overcome the limits that keep the Pi from replacing a mini PC.

For the better part of two decades, the war for PC dominance was simple. It was a brutal, head-to-head arms race fought on a single front: clock speed. From the days of the Pentium 4 and the Athlon XP ...