The Server Sizing Calculator will tell you how much hardware you need for a given workload. Unlike past methods (copying last year’s fleet or guessing … Read More

Think about how faster machines, double the cores, for example; will speed up your simulations. The classic solution is Amdahl’s Law, which says there is … Read More

The Amdahl calculator will help you understand the impact of adding more cores. It relies on an equation from 1967 which illustrate the limits of … Read More

If you’ve seen marketing materials from contemporary processors, chances are you saw a lot about core count and clock speed. Those aren’t interchangeable units of … Read More

A processor seems simple: You have one speed, right? It is like your car’s engine idling at a constant RPM. Wrong. The clock itself consist … Read More

If there’s one question every overclocker asks first, it’s answered by the CPU vCore voltage calculator. How much core voltage does my target clock speed … Read More

How hot is too hot? That’s the question a raw temperature reading doesn’t answer. A 78 C reading by itself sounds scary. But what does … Read More

The game stutters as your graphics card sits idling at half load. Why? Because the renderer can’t wait on the processor to prepare new frames … Read More

A trio of well-known specs on a spec sheet, frequency, IPC, and cores, condensed down into one number representing how many instructions of work a … Read More

For example: if your question isn’t about which is the fastest processor, but rather “which will do the most computing given a watt of electricity” … Read More