Most consumer PCs are designed for a single Intel or AMD processor, and dual CPU setups are primarily found in servers designed for heavy workloads. This is because these days, most standard CPUs have ...

I recently purchased a Supermicro X8DTE-F, had installed and running with 2 E5520s. Surprisingly the motherboard does not dynamically adjust fan speed to cpu load / temperature. The board has 4 fan ...

This came up in a conversation with a co-worker. Basically, we couldn't figure out, why aren't dual-CPU motherboards more common? My co-worker pointed out that you can buy an i9-9900k for $500, give ...

The benefits of dual-core will be obvious to builders who love to multitask. With a dual-processor system installed, it means there&'s a second processor core to share the load. For instance, if one ...

But the new dual-chipset motherboard was teased during the recent MSI Insider live stream, the company teased an AMD X670 chipset design that was not only passively cooled but rocked a dual-chipset ...

Moore's law has defined processor development for decades. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's edict, however, is sometimes inaccurately portrayed as saying that processors double in speed every few years ...

Dual-processor machines have been a constant part of the Mac landscape since Apple put a pair of 500MHz G4 chips into a Power Mac back in 2000. But that landscape shifted Wednesday when Apple ...

TL;DR: AMD's next-generation Zen 6 processors feature an evolved core architecture with up to 24 cores and 48 threads, enhanced cache up to 48MB per CCD, dual integrated memory controllers, and ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...