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In an unexpected twist on the tech performance trend, benchmark pioneer PassMark has observed that CPUs appear to be running slower in the first two months of 2025. The initial data shows a dip in performance that has the tech community rethinking previously held assumptions about the impacts of...

In an unexpected twist in the world of PC performance, benchmarking tool PassMark has recently released data suggesting that average CPU performance for Windows PCs has taken a downward turn in 2025. This surprising finding has sparked a new round of speculation: Is Windows 11 to blame compared...

Hi there. I have not had bsod in years but lately they happen every so many hours now. The only things that have changed is moving my os from c drive ssd 128gb to a 256gb ssd by the clone method. The only drivers i have changed recently would be the nvidia drivers, then the odd windows update...

I recently ran into a ton of BSOD's which seemed to be caused by a bad stick of RAM. After discovering this, I removed the stick and installed a fresh copy of Windows 8. Things have been running smoothly for a few days until yesterday. In the past 24 hours I've had 2 BSOD's. Attached is the...

Hey guys! Within the past week i have gotten two BSODs and I'm really confused as to what could be going on. This is occurring on my laptop, HP DV6-5163CA. I used a program called "BlueScreenView" and saw the both of the BSODs came from "ntoskrnl.exe" and doing a quick search online I saw that...

I am working on a new build. Link Removed I was able to get windows 7 hp 64bit sp1 installed with most updates installed. I am testing the functionality of all aspects of this system to verify stability and confirm all components are working properly. Currently, the on board audio isn't working...

I`m back again. Having had my laptop for the best part of 18 months now and it suffering from an overheating Turion X2 Ultra so that I can`t run much of anything with even a 1280*720 medium gfx setting without grinding to a frazzled halt I`m thiinking maybe a new faster/cooler cpu and...

I was comparing the two following processors: PassMark CPU Lookup PassMark CPU Lookup Now it looks like the Atom D525 at 1.80GHz is better than the Intel Pentium 4 at 3.00GHz...but does this mean the first one is better overall, or is it possible the second one outperforms it in some way? For...

Link Removed due to 404 Error PassMark DiskCheckup™ allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a feature on a computer's hard disk for providing various monitoring indicators of...

I upgraded to Windows 7 when it came out. So far I have been loving it and spent a good bit of last weekend getting everything set up and running properly. However, when I started playing games on the system I noticed a fairly large problem. Namely, that I was getting similar or worse...

Why is 2D performance slower? Windows 7 Ultimate - Performance Information and Tools Component Details Sub score Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz 6.5 Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB...