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Intel has made it a lot easier to overclock your CPU — pushing it past its default clock speeds to make it even faster, at the risk of potentially frying your chip. Here’s what you need to make it happen.
When I first started using PCs regularly, back in the early 1990s, systems using Intel processors were priced at a premium. So that meant my first couple of Windows PCs (we had a Commodore 128 at home before that) ran a Cyrix processor – a 486DLC if memory serves. But…
Intel has announced that another flaw in their processor architecture has been identified. Dubbed “Variant 4”, the Speculative Store Bypass may allow unauthorised disclosure of information by allowing memory to be read without appropriate permissions. The flaw was reported to Intel by researchers from Google’s Project Zero and the Microsoft…
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