It can be incredibly frustrating to see lags, stutters, and those dreaded 100% usage spikes after you've spent a ton on your CPU. Most people resort to optimizing their OSes to fix the problem. While ...

When running resource-intensive applications, you may notice unexplained drops in your CPU speed. These drops are often caused by CPU throttling, a power-saving feature in Windows in which the CPU ...

I was meeting with a new customer right before the holidays and part of the conversation was that they were very unhappy with the performance of their blade system in a virtualized environment. They ...

I did a motherboard swap, then reversed it as the motherboard was flaky. Okay, been there a hundred times. Only this time, Win7 took more exception than usual. After the swap, on the flaky board, it ...

I was recently deploying a virtual appliance, and found that a very specific BIOS setting on CPU power management was causing consistency issues in my vSphere cluster. Specifically, if I used one host ...

If you've noticed high CPU usage on your Windows desktop or laptop, you’ve come to the right place. Unless you’re running a demanding application, high CPU usage usually means something is using more ...