A good temperature for your desktop computer's CPU is around 120℉ when idle, and under 175℉ when under stress.

Idle grid computing — applying unused computer time to a task — is a great solution in need of a problem. Hundreds of millions of computers sit unused two-thirds of the day. Most of these PCs have the ...

You can check your CPU usage on a PC or Mac using programs already installed on your computer, like the Task Manager and ...

A group of students has put their computers' idle time to work curing cancer and saving the environment. Students that join the initiative started last month by freshman Brian Pilchik can download a ...

Most of our computers sit idle for part of the day. And that means there's a lot of power Oregon State University scientists could tap for climate simulation modeling ...

Resetting your computer's processor idling speed may enhance the computer's performance and reduce unnecessary heat and strain on your machine. In addition, this can help your business save power.

Slow computer? It might be all your fault. If, like me, you have at least 25 different browser tabs open at any given time, you’re putting a lot of strain on your laptop. That tab extravaganza uses up ...

Michela Taufer, a computer scientist at the University of Delaware, wants to find a cure for HIV, and she wants your help. No ph.D.? No problem. She’s created Docking@Home, a project supported by the ...

Dell-EMC, IBM and HPE have suffered a setback in their bid to convince EU lawmakers to scrap plans to cap the amount of energy that enterprise servers can use when idle. EU member states were invited ...

Otoy announced today the opening of RNDR, a crowdsourced cloud based on blockchain, to the public. RNDR will reduce the costs of producing games and movies while putting Ethereum-based cryptocurrency ...

This has been bugging me a lot lately, my main rig will loose all network access (internet, local lan traffic, both tcp/ip and windows file sharing) after the connection has set idle for a random ...