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CPU Usage
Downloads This application shows the current CPU usage in a floating rectangular meter, or in your Dock icon, or both. Your computer may behave slowly or run hot when the processor is being worked hard.The text is completely transparent, and the opacity of...
[May 12, 2008, 8:00]
SystemDashboard - CPU Meter
Downloads This Widget keeps track of your Total, User, and System CPU usage percentages. Inspired by the dashboards of fancy sports cars. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[November 6, 2007, 11:34]
CPU roadmap: 2007 and beyond review
Reviews Although little is known about Nehalem at this point, multiple sources contend that Intel will drop the front-side bus altogether and link the CPU to other components on the board via Common System Interface, a next-generation interconnect...
[March 19, 2007, 16:12]
CPU Grapher
Downloads CPU Grapher is a widget that will shows both your current and past CPU usage on your desktop The graph can be customized to show any combination of CPU levels in either Bar Graph or Line Graph form and as either a large graph or a small grap.
[October 31, 2007, 11:21]
CPU Cogs
Downloads CPU Cogs displays your CPU usage with the help of rotating cog wheels.
[March 30, 2007, 13:49]
Hot! CPU Smiley
Downloads As your CPU usage changes, so does your Smiley! Now with Fire. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[November 8, 2007, 10:36]
CPU Tracker
Downloads A simple CPU Tracker that's light on memory usage. Tracks the last five minutes of CPU usage the widget was open for. You can pause the data stream, and it will automatically resume tracking after 2 minutes.
[March 24, 2007, 12:09]
CPU Cooling Methods
White Papers The best measurement is an internal measurement, one that doesn't involve secondary measurements, and directly involves the primary heat pathway (CPU-Core to Die to Heatsink heat pathway). Per both AMD and Intel White Paper Specifications, heatsink...
[October 1, 2006, 1:07]
CPU Speed Accelerator
Downloads You want to automatically always make the most of the power of your CPU to the foreground application you are using? Then CPU Speed Accelerator is what you need! CPU Speed Accelerator allows you to drastically increase the CPU allocated to your...
[June 27, 2009, 17:51]
CPU Portal
Downloads A simple Widget that shows you your CPU usage. The portal become more opaque with red the harder the computer is working. Part of the Yahoo! Widgets 4 installation, but offered here in the event you've lost the Widget.
[November 6, 2007, 11:45]
CPU Frequency Scaling
Blog Reducing the CPU speed is an important part of power management in modern laptop computers. In fact, running the CPU at a lower speed not only saves power, it reduces the heat production, which reduces the need for the cooling fan to run, saving...
[April 3, 2009, 14:03]
CPU History
Downloads CPU History is a minimalist way to graph CPU usage over time. It's magnitudes more lightweight than Activity Monitor, since it doesn't try to monitor network, process, or disk activity. You can customize graph update frequency, choose...
[December 6, 2008, 17:05]
CPU Round
Downloads CPU Round consists of a dot which spins in a circle at different speeds that correlate to your CPU utilization. The dot color can be customized with your choice of 12 colors. Version 0.13 fixed activity color problem.
[November 6, 2007, 11:37]
CPU Traffic Lights
Downloads CPU Traffic Lights is a simple widget that displays the CPU total load in %, the available CPU in % and the number of CPUs on the machine. It also displays a traffic light-like image that shows intuitively how much of your CPU is being used.
[July 26, 2007, 11:30]
CPU roadmap: 2008 and beyond review
Reviews But as the only vendor able to tap into the knowledge of design teams seasoned in both CPU and performance GPU design (and no, we don't count Intel's integrated graphics chip as a 'performance' part), AMD's Fusion core may be unique in its ability...
[April 22, 2008, 16:07]
CPU Speed Menu
Downloads CPU Speed Menu allows you to switch between the different performance settings of your computer by a single mouse click. CPU Speed Menu can be used on all Macintosh computers which support manual switching of processor performance.
[March 26, 2008, 6:00]
Windows 2000 IIS5 Security Patch: Malformed WebDAV Request causes IIS to Exhaust CPU Resources - English
Downloads If a stream of such requests were directed at an affected server, it would consume all CPU availability on the server. Microsoft has released a patch that will eliminate a flaw that exists in the way WebDAV handles a particular type of malformed...
[September 13, 2007, 9:12]
Exploring ESX Server 2.5.1 Virtual CPU Capabilities in an Internet Mail Protocol Environment
White Papers In this paper, Dell Scalable Enterprise engineers present how VMware ESX Server virtual CPU resources can be managed to help achieve flexibility and resource utilization in a virtualized Internet Mail protocol computing environment.
[December 7, 2008, 0:22]
Europe honours father of the one-chip CPU
News According to the European Inventor of the Year Web site, "The world we live in today might have looked quite different had it not been for Federico Faggin; the engineer was the first person to fit an entire CPU on a single chip.
[May 4, 2006, 12:10]
Extending the Spreadsheet to Illustrate Basic CPU Operations in a Computer Literacy Course
White Papers For teaching internal computer operation, many rely on simulations of a computer's Central Processing Unit (CPU). Thomas, a CPU simulation called the "SimpleCPU" is introduced. Since Excel is already part of the introductory literacy course, the...
[September 20, 2006, 1:00]
