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, […]
Have you ever wondered how much old CPU chips are worth to a recycler? Well, we have about 350 Intel Celeron P1053 CPU‘s that can be recycled. Apparently, some of thes chips have silver under their heat cap and some have gold. The gold are worth more and so we […]
A gaming computer or laptop that runs at a high temperature is not simply annoying. That heat can actually harm the components within the computer and detrimentally affect the computer’s efficiency or even shorten its life. Thanks to the high-intensity of the CPU market, you can always find a brand […]
WMI or Windows Management Instrumentation Provider Host (WmiPrvSE) is a very important windows host management process used by the developers for the purpose of monitoring windows program. As a service provider host, applications in the PC cannot run without it. Many features in your computer become useless when this process […]
It is easy to get overwhelmed trying to figure out which Intel CPU does what and why one is better than the other. To make your selection a little less daunting we have three sections for you to skim through: Text description of Intel CPU’s Simple summary of Intel consumer […]
In this short disassembly video we show how to remove the keyboard, battery, backing cover, screwed, hard drive, DVD, WiFi card and back cover plate to gain access to the CPU fan. We then clean out the CPU fan with some compressed air to and reassemble the Dell Inspiron 17″ […]
If you want to distill the argument between Intel Xeon and AMD Epyc server processors down to three things, they would be: AMD’s interconnection of the Cores on Epyc is much slower than on Intel Xeon’s AMD Epyc CPU’s are faster than Intel Xeon in memory intensive applications In general, […]
Last week we provided a very quick explanation of the Meltdown & Spectre CPU flaws which you can read HERE. However, much more is now known and so here are the current answers to Meltdown & Spectre Frequently Asked Questions: What are Spectre & Meltdown? Spectre and Meltdown are related […]
UPDATE Saturday Jan 6 – 2018: There are now two known flaws named “Meltdown” and “Spectre”. Spectre still has not been detailed but applies to virtually all CPU’s including x86 and ARM. It is now known that Intel (and possibly other CPU manufacturers) have a very serious design flaw with […]
Over the years Intel has released a number of variations on their CPU’s and started some lines that have since faded out (does anyone remember the Core 2, Pentium Pro or DX Math coprocessor). So there is no mystery why many people find Intel’s current lines mysterious. They just don’t […]