Over the course of the past 2 years, we’ve shown you many ways to optimize your PC: from turning off autostart programs, to turning off entire programs and even tuning netbooks for best performance. Unfortunately, if your PC or laptop is still painfully slow, you might be dealing with “DPC latency” issues – and that [...]
Even the best-equipped PC can’t deliver performance if it’s “heart”—the processor (or CPU)—isn’t strong enough. Despite all the amount of RAM and the power of graphic cards, the processor is what really determines the overall speed of a PC. In this blog post, we’ll take a quick peek behind the scenes [...]
I admit it—I’d rather play Monkey Island (1990) or Wing Commander III (1994) before even thinking about Crysis 2 or Skyrim. My passion for PC gaming started at the tender age of 10 when my dad got us a 486 DX4 with 100 MHz, 8 MB of RAM, a 1 MB Cirrus Logic VGA graphics [...]
Ever got told by Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 that you can’t eject an external storage device, such as a USB thumb drive, an MP3 player, or a hard disk? Something’s obviously blocking your device—but what if all of your applications are shut down? Unplugging is not a good idea [...]
