In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly-launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it’s all about your questions and our community’s answers. Each week, we’ll dig into our question bag, provide ...

The new Intel Alder Lake CPUs include P-core and E-cores (performance and efficiency cores) so Intel created Thread Director to manage all of those cores and threads more efficiently than ever before.

Buying a processor for a gaming rig is both easier and harder than it used to be. AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series and Intel’s 13th-gen Core CPUs offer fantastic performance—especially now that the battle ...

If you want to stress test and benchmark your new CPU inside of 3DMark, you can now finally do just that with UL Benchmarks' latest update to 3DMark. The new 3DMark CPU Profile will test your CPU ...

As graphics cards have grown more powerful, the amount of weight put on your processor while gaming has decreased drastically. This means for most people, you don’t need to shell out hundreds of ...

The latest release of 7-Zip, version 25.00, significantly enhances its multithreading capabilities on Windows platforms by enabling the use of more than 64 CPU threads. This update is especially ...