Generating heat comes with the territory of using electricity in computers to process information. Though this heat is often limited to certain areas, excessive use can rapidly increase the ...

Windows 11 keeps a cache of temporary files in order to speed things up. But if that cache gets damaged or corrupted, you may ...

As the name implies, the temp folder contains files that are only needed temporally. Unfortunately, these files don’t always get deleted after their job is done, resulting in wasted drive space. To ...

About a year ago, my computer started acting funny. It would freeze up, applications would randomly crash, and I even got a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) or two. After a few hours of suffering through ...

After one of his PCs came close to overheating, Brien is more vigilant than ever about monitoring its CPU temperature. Here's the setup he's using to do it. Bonus: no annoying app notifications ...

You can approximate the average temperature a given CPU should run at based on the maximum operating temperature. CPUs fluctuate between 20 to 30 degrees Celsius (36 to 54 Fahrenheit) in normal use ...

In this guide, we'll show you how to set your PC to respond to coolant temperature, rather than the CPU temperature. Why would you want to do that, you might ask. It seems logical to set your fans to ...

The Winbond W83782D can be used to monitor several hardware parameters of a PC motherboard, including power supply voltages, fan speeds, and temperatures. An 8-bit A/D converter inside the monitor IC ...