Best microSD cards for Surface PCs Expand the storage on your Surface device with these SD cards! When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Looking to expand the storage on your Surface PC? A great way to do that is with a microSD card, which many Surface devices support. If you’re using a Surface Go, Surface Book, Surface Studio 2 or older, and Surface Pro 7+ or older, you’re in luck....
Do NOT Sit Your PC Case Directly On Carpet – New Video If your computer case is sat directly on carpet… stop, drop and roll. Wait, that’s not right. Either way, don’t put your case directly onto carpet. This is because it will sink into the carpet, resulting in less airflow through the bottom of your case – and ultimately higher internal temps. Either move your case to your desk, or put some wood (or other hard surface) underneath it....
Why Steam Updates So Often (It Seems Like It’s Every Day!) There is nothing more tedious than finally getting home to play your favorite video game and then having to sit through update after update before you can finally game. What’s going on behind all of those Steam updates anyway? Steam has to update so often because of frequent security, performance, and UI/UX upgrades. Steam also updates more often if you have a lot of games installed because each of those games need to go through their own updates....
Installing Games On A Separate Hard Drive: Genius Or Foolish? Everyone who enjoys video games on a PC is eventually going to come across this one problem. There’s always more gigs of video games than we have storage available on our main hard drive. This begs the question: should I get a second hard drive for my video games? Getting a second hard drive for your video games is a great idea as long as you can afford a second storage drive for your PC....
Run Games At Lower Resolution Than Native: Good Or Bad For FPS? The arguments between getting the best possible graphics of the best possible frame rate all come down to what you’re looking for in your game. However, sacrificing resolution for FPS can cause problems, and you can crash a game. Lowering the resolution of a game canusuallyincrease the frames per second. However, sometimes you don’t get a FPS boost – either due to bugs, your CPU being unable to handle the increased speed, or certain games even rely on a set FPS for internal calculations that can’t be changed....
Do CPUs Need Drivers And Updates? Drivers are vital pieces of software in your PC. Essentially, every bit of hardware that plugs into your computer needs a driver of some kind to work properly. Everything from gaming controllers to drawing tablets need drivers, but does your CPU need its down driver? Your CPU is designed to work without a driver, but it does have a connection to your motherboard’s BIOS which is a bit like a super-powered driver....
High, Balanced, Ultimate: Which Ryzen Power Plan Is ‘Best’? Ultimate? Performance? Balance? Picking a power setting shouldn’t feel like deciding between the character stats of the latest RPG. What’s the difference between these Ryzen power plans anyway? Ryzen offers three basic power plans: Balanced, High Performance, and Ultimate. Balanced works on saving energy and lowering heat, High Performance opens up the clock speed for faster processing, and Ultimate builds on high performance to deliver even faster speeds....
