TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.

Windows 11 just came in last in a six‑way speed showdown against its own predecessors, a result that seems to confirm every ...

The simplest way is to use Windows search. Open the Start menu, type reliability, and click the View reliability history option. Windows will open the Reliability Monitor, and after a second or two, ...

In a previous article I looked at UL Solutions' newest test suite, Procyon. Procyon is the successor to its widely successful benchmarking tool, PCMark. Procyon was designed to benchmark today's ...

Every Windows upgrade offers new improvements in performance and functionality, and the jump to Windows 11 is no exception. Compared to its predecessor, Windows 11 can load websites and copy files ...

In an odd turn of events, Windows 8 has been banned from HWBot, one of the world's top benchmarking and overclocking communities. All existing benchmarks recorded by Windows 8 have been disqualified.

Primate Labs, the company behind Geekbench, has introduced the Geekbench AI app. It is a cross-platform AI benchmarking tool designed to evaluate devices’ performance under heavy AI workloads. Notably ...

What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.