If you're not stress testing your new (or newly overclocked) PC hardware, danger may be lurking in its depths. Here's how to push your PC to its limits to ensure its stability.

You might be using Task Manager, and even tools like Resource Monitor on your Windows PC regularly. Performance Monitor, however, often goes unnoticed by most Windows users. This advanced Windows tool ...

On a Windows computer, there are several tools you can use to evaluate your current setup against the newer one you intend to upgrade to.

UserBenchmark is a free service that lets you benchmark your Windows computer. It runs benchmarking tests on most of the hardware components including CPU, GPU, SSD, HDD, RAM and USB Devices.

Another method is to use the lscpu command to get the model name and other info about the installed CPU. The top entry for ...

Here is a list of PC Stress Test free software to test computer hardware, CPU, GPU, memory, physical disk, optical drive, chipset, ports, printers, sound card, etc.

Your CPU temperature affects your computer's performance and can indicate its overall health. We'll show you how to monitor it and what to do when it spikes.

How to test your PC hardware? We are going to test the number of FPS (frames per seconds) you can achieve in a graphics-intensive game at different display resolutions screen resolution. Top-notch ...

Anyway, 3DMark's DirectStorage test is pretty much the maximum throughput your gaming PC or SSD is likely to get.

The ability to check the tech specs can come in handy when replacing a hardware component or troubleshooting a problem, and in this guide, we’ll show how on Windows 10.

Need to know what version of Windows your computer is running, or what components your machine has? Here’s how to locate and decipher your PC’s specifications.