CPU
How Often Do You Upgrade Your Computer?
Your computer is slowing down. Things don’t run the way they should anymore. You baby it along by defragging, uninstalling programs, deleting files and cleaning things up as much as possible. Perhaps you go as far as cursing at your poor machine or even threatening it with a hammer. At what point, though, do you [...]
Chris Pirillo University (CPU): Writing for Google
Are you a blogger, copywriter, journalist… or just someone who enjoys writing online? If so, then content discovery is likely VERY important to you – even if you didn’t realize it already. On Thursday, November 18th, I will be co-hosting a webinar with my good friend Jake Ludington called Chris Pirillo University (CPU): Writing for [...]
Are Two Cores as Good as Four Cores?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Michael from CMPLive decided to do a special episode of “Real or Hoax” for our channels. He is a brave soul, and decided to take on the age-old question of whether or not two cores really are as good as four. [...]
VMWare CPU Usage in XP
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Some people have trouble gaming inside of VMWare. It tends to throttle their CPU. However, in the newest version of VMWare Fusion one of the toggles have been removed. You can change quite a bit of settings to optimize your virtual [...]
Flash Video is Better With AMD and ATI
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed There are a lot of people making and watching videos online these days. When I visited the AMD campus in Texas during the SXSW conference recently, Casey showed me how AMD is helping people all over the world enhance their Flash [...]
AMD’s Vision
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed During my trip to SXSW last week, I spent some time at the AMD campus. I was able to talk briefly with Raymond from the AMD Product Marketing Group. I had heard that AMD has a vision for Vision, and wanted [...]
AMD for You and Me?
Visiting AMD today, seeing their new technology. I can’t thank the folks at AMD enough for helping get me to SXSW!
Monitor Your Macs With iStat Menus
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Billy has done several screencasts in the past for our channels, and has received some pretty good feedback. Today, he’s going to show you how to monitor your system if you’re using OS X, using an application called iStat Menus. Remember, [...]
What Happens When Your Laptop’s Motherboard Goes Bad?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed There is this thing sitting inside your computer that is the one thing every other thing is connected to! It’s called a motherboard. I have no idea why there’s no fatherboard… but yeah. The motherboard is crucial. If it’s not working [...]
Are GPUs the future of CPUs?
Kerrick Long is a geek who submitted the following question to me this weekend: I’ve been thinking recently about the advances that chipset makers have been making with GPUs, and how the CPU market seems to be stagnant at the moment. Recently, ATI made the first GPU clocked at 1GHz available with the Radeon HD [...]
Windows 7: Resource Monitor Tool
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed It doesn’t matter how new your computer is, you only have a limited amount of resources. You have to keep an eye on your CPU, your memory, and your disks – you need to know what’s going on! The Resource Monitor [...]
What is Intel’s Core i7?
This is Kyle Allen’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily [...]
Some People Are Happy with Their PCs
This guest blog post comes courtesy of ‘Leo’ – with his punctuation, usage, spelling, and grammar intact… For the last couple of years I have been observing people over and over again bash Microsoft and its products. While some of these criticisms were valid, most of the negative remarks were grossly exaggerated. I think most [...]
Corrections on Quad Core and Multi Core CPUs
Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – I take pride in the fact that I don’t know everything. I love to learn, and looking to the community for help filling in my blanks is important to me. Consider this an update… 1.1 if you will… to my earlier [...]
Intel Has an (un)Official Blogger
Josh from TinyScreenfuls just posted a mouthful: I want to start some conversation. I’m not officially authorized to speak for Intel on any matter (see my “Caveat Lector� disclaimer over there in the sidebar), but there are a ton of things that I can talk about. I’m just a guy, a blogger, who works at [...]
