Cameron is a self-made geek, Android enthusiast, horror movie fanatic, musician, and cyclist. When he's not pounding keys here at AP, you can find him spending time with his wife and kids, plucking ...

For those Mac users who love to push their hardware to its limits, the OS X Activity Monitor (found in Applications > Utilities) can be a handy tool. I often use it to find out if one process or ...

If you are using a computer, you might know that there are several components like the motherboard, processor, hard disk, RAM, etc. that make it. A time may come when you need to check the health of ...

Sometimes, your Windows computer may be running slow, even when you have a pretty good CPU configuration. It happens when your computer spends the resources to do some other task. To solve this ...

While Windows' built-in Task Manager is great for the occasional resource check, it's not something you can easily monitor all day long. For that, we recommend Rainmeter, the best darn system monitor ...

Q: How do you determine CPU usage in Java? A: So, here is the good news and the bad news. The bad news is that programmatically querying for CPU usage is impossible using pure Java. There is simply no ...

I stopped relying on Task Manager after discovering the hidden Windows activity it ignores.

Stupid question: If you're using something like EIST or Cool & Quiet to step down core speeds, what do different utilization levels reported correspond to?<BR><BR>If the CPU is clocked at 50% of full ...