A number of discussion areas are harboring complaints of failing level 2 caches on Apple's Lombard PowerBooks. As noted by Marc P., for some, the PowerBook woks fine without the L2 cache, albeit ...

A CPU relies on various kinds of storage to optimally run programs and power a computer. These include components like hard disks and SSDs for long-term storage, RAM and GPU memory for fast, temporary ...

AMD is working on a mysterious dual-cache Ryzen processor, and early benchmarks give us a glimpse of what its bigger L3 cache has to offer. In the current state of PC affairs, those who want to get ...

I have never upgraded a CPU myself and I'd like some advice from Ars. experts. I currently have an AMD Athlon 64 LE-1640 which I want to replace with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4850e. Here is a comparison ...