Have you ever had that nagging sensation that your computer was slower than it used to be? Or that your brand new laptop seemed much more sluggish than an old tower PC you once had? Dan Luu, a ...

Despite vastly more processing power, it takes longer for a signal from your keyboard to show up on your monitor than it did in 1983. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

For applications such as high frequency trading (HFT), search engines and telecommunications, it is essential that latency can be minimized. My previous article Optimizing Computer Applications for ...

Sadly, you won’t find numbers on latency on the vendor’s battle cards—so we measured it ourselves to see the performance differences among some popular services. But first, let’s discuss latency. It’s ...

Microsoft engineer Dan Luu looks into computer keyboard latency / input lag in his latest tech blog post (via HardOCP). Spurred on by a feeling that modern computers "feel slower than the computers I ...

Do you work with audio tools a lot? Have you faced latency issues on your Windows computer? That is because of how Windows handles processes and routines. Windows is not a real-time operating system, ...

Comparing the input latency of a modern PC with a system that's 30-40 years old seems ridiculous on the face of it. Even if the computer on your desk or lap isn't particularly new or very fast, it's ...

One of the issues that have since forever been giving Windows users problems is DirectX Graphics Kernel Latency issues. This glitch comes up mostly after a Windows Update and causes sound issues ...

2017: As the hardware world turns The year is almost over, and now it's time to look back on the last fifty-odd weeks. What happened in this year in hacking? 2017 will go down as the beginning of ...