CPU monitoring utilities have a reputation problem, and it is not about accuracy so much as the junk that often rides along ...

Is your PC or Mac running hot? Here's how to check processor temps on your Windows and Mac computers. Palash has been writing about technology (and entertainment) for over a decade. His focus has been ...

[Lex] over at Computing: The Details loves to make fun projects. Recently, they have created a hardware CPU monitor that displays how PCs are parallelizing compile tasks at a glance. The monitor is ...

Stress testing your CPU is a great way to ensure that your overclock is stable, check that your cooling is powerful enough, or run in some new heat paste that you've applied to your processor. But ...

Stupid question: If you're using something like EIST or Cool & Quiet to step down core speeds, what do different utilization levels reported correspond to?<BR><BR>If the CPU is clocked at 50% of full ...

If you’ve ever launched Task Manager only to watch your CPU usage hit 100% and stay there, you may have wondered why this sudden mystery spike in system resource usage occurs. After all, Task Manager ...

A CPU is at the heart of all the various processes running on your Mac. As such, the higher the number of tasks and instructions running simultaneously on your Mac, the higher its CPU usage. Although ...

I noticed in win2k that when you hit ctl-alt-del, and open taskman, that a little bar graph appears in the tool-bar on the right that shows cpu usage. That's something I had win98 with another program ...