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Enable Your Laptop’s Performance Mode For Faster Speed
Laptops manufacturers typically try to strike a balance between power, battery life, and heat concerns for a device’s default settings. Since everyone uses their laptops differently, though, your machine’s power settings as-shipped could potentially bottleneck its performance when gaming or editing media.
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Read This Before Pre-Ordering Your Nvidia RTX 30-Series Graphics Card
1I know, I know. The temptation is great, if you’re a DIY PC-building enthusiast who is tired of watching your games stutter when you crank them to “Ultra” quality settings. Nvidia’s new RTX 30-series graphics cards are beasts. But should you pre-order one? I wouldn’t.
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The Biggest Announcements From Computex 2019 (So Far)
Computex—one of the world’s biggest computing tech trade shows—kicked off its 2019 conference Monday morning in Taipei, Taiwan, and there have already been tons of big announcements. If you’re looking to upgrade your system (or buy something new) within the next few months, you’ll definitely want to scan through our roundup of the most notable…
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The Changing Face Of The Modern CPU
When I first started using PCs regularly, back in the early 1990s, systems using Intel processors were priced at a premium. So that meant my first couple of Windows PCs (we had a Commodore 128 at home before that) ran a Cyrix processor – a 486DLC if memory serves. But through most of the 1990s…