With the latest Windows Release Preview, Microsoft is fixing a problem that has persisted for years: Its Task Manager CPU ...

It's normal for CPU usage to spike on your Windows computer when you're gaming or running resource-intensive programs.

High CPU usage can slow down your PC, cause lags, and even lead to system crashes. Whether you are a gamer, a professional, or just an everyday user, keeping CPU usage in check is crucial for a smooth ...

You'll typically see a spike in CPU usage as a symptom. When that happens, it lets you know that you're pushing your PC's CPU beyond its limits. Not only will this result in throttled system ...

Typically, you might invoke Task Manager when your PC is really chugging away and running very slowly, so you can see which ...

For a casual inquiry, this is fine, but for anything approaching scientific rigor, you need to be using a third-party application because Windows' Task Manager does not correctly report CPU usage.

But arguably the most intriguing detail for the future of the PC was reference to a new Nvidia CPU. Known as Vera and ...

The normal way to do this is register renaming. Instead of using A and B as registers, the CPU uses physical registers that it can call A or B (or something else) as it sees fit. So, for example ...

If you have an air cooler that uses the stock plastic mounts on an AMD motherboard, there will be a latch mechanism to unhook it, where you can push down the latch on one side of the CPU to loosen ...

In addition, if you intentionally lower the operating clock frequency to stabilize operation ( underclocking), the task manager would not display '100%' even if the actual CPU usage reached 100%.