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When I first dropped into a heavily contested lobby in Call of Duty: Warzone, I expected the game to run without any frame drops and with immediate response to my commands. My in-game telemetry showed frame rates that were far lower than what my hardware should have delivered. I spent the entire day trying to solve different display driver issues after I first suspected that background processes were causing problems with my system performance. The system had enough processing power to deliver 1440p graphics at high refresh rates, but an unknown factor prevented the system from operating at it
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Your 5-year-old router isn't just slow — it's an unpatched security loophole
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We have reached the GPU ceiling, and AI tricks like DLSS are how companies pretend we haven't
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Most gamers should logically buy an AMD GPU — here's why they keep buying Nvidia anyway
…AMD does offer more performance and VRAM per dollar than Nvidia in general. Except for high-end shoppers who have no choice but to buy Nvidia, AMD GPUs have been the better…
Stop upgrading your CPU for media server transcoding; a used GPU does it better
…Gaming performance relies on CUDA cores and shaders, whereas video encoding and decoding rely on video engines, such as NVENC for Nvidia or VCE for AMD. Gaming performance of a GPU degrades…
Forza Horizon 6 made me stop doubting DLSS 4.5, and the proof is hard to ignore
…to clear the bar that DLSS 4.5 has set at an unfathomably high level, through spectacle, performance, and restraint. DLSS 4.5 will certainly be a part of my Forza Horizon…
This GPU driver setting cut my frametime variance in half, and competitive FPS games feel completely different now
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The USB-C cable in your drawer won't work with your dock, and neither will most others
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