We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The CPU is the beating heart of a desktop computer. Whether it's a blazing-fast gaming rig or a workstation designed for crunching through ...

What a difference a year makes. One year ago, we were dazed, dazzled and beguiled by the arrival of dual-core processors. Offerings from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. had analysts, ...

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Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

The best desktop computers can elevate your home computing setup in a way that a compact laptop never could. When you don’t have to cram your CPU, RAM, storage, graphics card, screen and keyboard into ...

Watch out, Intel. Thanks to its X3D chips, AMD continues to gain in the desktop CPU market. AMD’s share of desktop CPU shipments reached 32.2% in Q2, a historic high and up from 23% a year ago, ...

With desktop CPU shipments seeing ‘strong growth sequentially’ that was ‘lower than normal seasonal rates,’ AMD’s growth rate was more than double that of Intel’s for the third quarter, according to ...

Laptop computers have gotten pretty powerful in recent years, but desktops still have a few advantages. Want a user-replaceable CPU or GPU? With a few notable exceptions that’s not possible with ...