cpu performance

Recently been experimenting in mining Monero (XMR) and seeing one of my machines is surprisingly underperforming the others in terms of average hash rate. Both are using CPU only for mining, and running 100% for the mining at the Linux command prompt with no GUI services. Connected to the same...

Hi everybody ! I'm glad to join this VERY active community! I have a question about cpu performance, 'cos I have a dell optiplex 7010 with an i5-3570 processor, quite old afaik, and I want to buy a new machine. The thing is that here...

We all know that on paper the 5950X has four more cores and twice the threads compared to the 5900x, but when it comes to how each core was architectured, engineered and made, is there a difference there? Because if the only difference is that AMD decided to just add four more physical cores...

Today i was building my computer and i had the great idea to make a video for my grandma to show her thr CPU and while i was looking at the phone this happened 🤦‍♂️. I almost got a heart attack lol. I really really really don't know how, but 0 pins bent (unless i didnt see them). Zero. I think...

I recently upgraded by CPU from an i7 6700k to an i9 9900k and have changed the motherboard from an MSI Z170 Tomahawk to and Aorus Pro WiFi Z390. I know this is overkill for gaming but was still under the impression there should be a gain in performance. This is paired with a 1080ti and 16GB...