Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chacos, Brad

Titel

11 cheap or free ways to make your old PC run faster

Ist Teil von

• PC world, 2020-07, p.101-109

Ort / Verlag

San Francisco: Foundry

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Access via Business Source (EBSCOhost)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Sure, these tweaks and tips aren't as thrilling as booting up a brand-new PC for the first time-but they'll let you continue to get the job done with the gear you already have. Assuming your desktop PC has proper cooling and a CPU that's capable of overclocking (Intel limits it to chips with a "K" designator at the end), boosting your processor and graphics card's clock speeds can have a noticeable effect on your PC's performance. Sure, games may start requiring more processing firepower when the new consoles roll out at the end of the year, but plenty of gamers are still doing just fine pairing a high-end graphics card with an older quad-core chip (though they're admittedly getting a bit long in the tooth). If you still need to use your aging laptop or desktop as an day-to-day actual computer, installing an operating system with a lighter footprint than Windows can help you eke more life out of an aging PC.