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SOLVED: AMD CPU Names Explained To Intel CPU Lovers

We have been using and selling primarily Intel CPU’s since the late 1980s and while we switched over to AMD briefly in the mid 2000s but went back to Intel when they regained their supremacy. Intel’s namings conventions have changed over the years but put simply today they are based […]

By Ian Matthews, ago
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SOLVED: What is L1 L2 & L3 CPU Cache?

If you’ve ever looked at Task Manager on a Windows computer you will notice on the PERFORMANCE tab under CPU in the bottom right hand corner something labeled L1 cache, L2 cache and, L3 cache: To answer the question what is the difference between L1, L2, and L3 cache we […]

By Ian Matthews, ago
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SOLVED: 5 Reasons Companies Still Prefer Intel CPU’s

It’s not news to anyone who follows the industry that Intel has fallen behind in the performance race. Chip companies like AMD, NVIDIA, ARM, and Qualcomm, all have superior performance in some category. If that’s true, why are Intel CPU’s in more new corporate computers than all of the others […]

By Ian Matthews, ago
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SOLVED: Which Intel Core Ultra CPU to Buy?

We had just completed an article on what the Ultra means in Intel Core Ultra, when one of our clients asked which CPU’s she should be buying now. Here was our response: Given these two facts I wouldn’t consider purchasing a computer that was not running in Intel Core Ultra […]

By Ian Matthews, ago
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SOLVED: What is CPU Microcode?

Many computer tech’s, or even savvy home users, have heard the term microcode before and it knew that it related to your CPU but don’t really don’t really know what it is. Microcode became more commonly known when several security holes were found on the physical silicon of Intel CPU’s […]

By Ian Matthews, ago
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SOLVED: How To Fix CPU Fan Noise

If your computer CPU fan is frequently running on high, making too much noise and driving you crazy there are two things you should do: Clean the CPU Fan – 85% of the time the problem is that the CPU FAN or heatsink is clogged and NEEDS to be cleaned, […]

By Ian Matthews, ago