We needed to buy a few All in One Computers for our offices and had to yet again dig into the specifications to source the “best” product. Best is a very subjective thing that obviously includes things like price and peripherals (cameras, keyboards…), but there are two spec’s you need […]
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 […]
The word “best” is a subjective thing, but when looking at mini-PC’s we can guess that what you are looking for is one of two primary features to make the best determination: In our case we wanted a mini-PC for digital signage but also wanted it to be able to […]
In recent years we have seen much talk about so called “field updates” to CPU’s from Intel and AMD. They are called field updates because they are updates made in the field (i.e. after they have shipped from the factory). Put simply a field update is just a “firmware” update […]
A few weeks ago we noticed that our CPU fan was turning on whenever even a single YouTube video was being played and because we have a high end 12th generation Intel Core i7 CPU that just shouldn’t happen. To figure out what was going on, we confirmed the CPU […]
The best mobile phone CPU is nearly always the newest cell phone CPU and in 2025 close to true. Without much doubt the Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is the king of the cell phone castle right now. Here is a table we built to support a video review of the […]
One of our larger clients was struggling to decide which CPU to purchase in their new Dell laptops so we produced the table below for them. As you can see it compares all of the Intel Core Ultra CPUs that are in common Dell products today. The key question is […]
If you work on Azure Virtual Machines, there will come a time when you need to add CPU or memory. Does A VM Need To Be Off To Resize It? While you do not need to have a VM powered down or de-allocated to make the “size” change, it will […]
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 […]
We recently worked with a client who had a mission critical server they did not want to power down to make hardware changes to. They were thinking because the server was a modern Windows Server 2019 running on VMware 7 with Memory Hot Add enabled, that they could avoid powering […]
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 […]
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 […]
Intel recently replaced they’re confusing Celeron and Pentium brands with something called N Series CPU’s. Put simply, N series CPU’s have no “Performance” cores. They are exclusively “Efficiency” cores and that is actually a good thing. If you weren’t already aware the world’s largest design house for CPU’s is named […]
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 […]
Intel processors use letters at the end of their name like “T” and “K” to tell you what type of use they are intended for. Intel CPU’s with No Letters At The End Most Intel CPU chips have no letters which indicates they are the standard processors intended for normal […]
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, […]