February 12, 2013
Gaming is among the most demanding tasks a consumer PC will ever be asked to handle. Updating hardware is expensive, so many users look for optimizations that can improve performance for free. The truth is that many of these tweaks are barely more than snake oil. They rarely (if ever) work and provide little benefit when they do. There are just a handful of tactics that make a real difference.
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January 25, 2013
Just one more city to go. I launched my tank attack, positioned my bombers and arranged the infantry for the final push. It wouldn’t take long, I knew it, and as the dominoes fell, total victory would be mine. And then Civilization V crashed.Video game crashes are still extremely frustrating – especially as they really shouldn’t happen in this day and age. There are various factors and these will tell you the eventual fix for the issue.
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October 26, 2012
If there’s any hardware released in 2012 that you’re likely to fall in love with, it’s the sweet-as-sugar Raspberry Pi, a mini computer designed and built in the UK that has shipped all around the world. Equipped with an ARM processor and capable of running various operating systems, the Raspberry Pi is small enough to fit into a cigarette box and powerful enough to run a home server, media centre and much more.
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August 2, 2012
Provided that you have hardware from a manufacturer who understands those principles, you can do plenty to juice up your system, whether it be a computer, tablet, or smartphone. One of the best things you can do -- with appropriate hardware, firmware, and/or software -- is to speed up your system by overclocking it.
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January 21, 2012
Overclocking is a ritual among computer hardware geeks. Once you’ve done it you enter into a circle of extreme geeks who can quote voltages, clock speeds and processor multipliers. This elite group can increase performance of their computers without spending extra dough – but they also risk the chance of permanent hardware damage.
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September 7, 2011
Last time I showed you how to speed up your newly acquired HP TouchPad with a number of patches and tweaks. There’s no denying that the performance increase is noticeable but the device still seems to lag and stutter at points. If you’re still disappointed with performance and are looking to turbo-charge your TouchPad, then a 1.5GHz speed bump might just do the trick.
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May 27, 2010
Furmark is a free utility which is designed to perform a graphics card stability test to determine performance and stability. The goal of Furmark is to help you put your video card under the most extreme circumstances possible so that you know your video card can handle the latest games. Furmark is capable of putting [...]
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