Disk Cleanup is another utility that is accessible regardless of your Windows version. The easiest way to open it is to search for "Disk Cleanup" in the search bar and bring up the window.

Overview: Performance issues on gaming consoles can be frustrating, especially when they interrupt immersive gameplay. Even advanced consoles like the Xbox ...

The dynamic interplay between processor speed and memory access times has rendered cache performance a critical determinant of computing efficiency. As modern systems increasingly rely on hierarchical ...

In the early days of computing, everything ran quite a bit slower than what we see today. This was not only because the computers' central processing units – CPUs – were slow, but also because ...

The shorter the distance application data has to travel to drive a web application, the better the user experience will be. Developers have a wide array of places to use a data cache, but each comes ...

Most of us have a pretty simple model of how a computer works. The CPU fetches instructions and data from memory, executes them, and writes data back to memory. That model is a good enough abstraction ...

As discussed in part one, one of the reasons cache coherency is becoming more important is the shared common memory resource in designs today. Various agents in the design want to access the data the ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, and advances in chip packaging are catching up to those in transistor design when it comes to working in three dimensions instead of the much more limited two.

Ahead of AMD’s Zen launch in early 2017, enthusiasts were clamoring for exciting progress in the desktop CPU market. While we saw GPUs gain tremendously from one generation to the next, every CPU ...