I’m sure this has happened to some of you. You run Windows Update, and it just stops mid-update. The PC is frozen, or you get a Blue Screen of Death, or it fails mid-install and won’t give you control of your PC back. Or, you get control back, but the Windows Update screen won’t go away.
Jan
30
Integrated vs. Dedicated: A Difference in Graphics
by Steve January 30th, 2012Whether you own a desktop PC or a laptop PC, the graphics hardware in your machine comes in two very distinct flavors. Integrated graphics hardware shares your PC’s memory with the rest of your PC. In other words, it has no RAM of its own. Dedicated graphics hardware has its own memory and can even have its own brain, called a GPU or graphics processing unit.
Jan
27
Fast Tip: Does Your PC’s Monitor Affect Performance?
by Steve January 27th, 2012So you’re thinking about a new widescreen LCD monitor, or even multiple monitors, and you’d like to know if such a purchase will cause your PC’s performance to take a hit. The short answer is no, not really.
Jan
24
Fast Tip: What’s an ULV Processor?
by Steve January 24th, 2012document.createElement(“figure”); document.createElement(“figcaption”); figure { display: block; margin: 50 50 50 50; float:right} figcaption { display: block; margin: 10 10 10 10; float:right; font-family:Sans-serif; font-size: 9px} Illustration: Gordon McAlpin Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) processors are underclocked, which means their speed is set lower than what’s standard for it, in order to use less power and prolong [...]
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