Killian has spent the last 14 years writing about technology for a number of online publications, and he's most passionate about PC hardware, mobile devices, and gaming. When he's not covering the ...

On end-user machines, hardware resource utilization can lead to poor UX, and some admins struggle with monitoring and managing resource use. Identifying when desktops are using resources at an ...

CPU monitoring utilities have a reputation problem, and it is not about accuracy so much as the junk that often rides along with them. In a landscape crowded with ad-supported dashboards and bloated ...

HWiNFO is one of the best free hardware monitoring tools. The latest version of the software has fixed legacy CPU usage reading on Windows 11, a kernel-mode hardware stack driver bug, and more. HWiNFO ...

A somewhat rare reason that MacOS can feel excessively slow is due to a runaway process in the background, in this particular ...

When I want to monitor my Linux system's performance, I turn to these handy apps to collect more data than I'll probably ever need. Linux users are notorious for wanting to know as much information as ...