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While visiting HP’s Omen gaming exhibit at the company’s Amplify Conference in Nashville Tennessee this week, I realized something: I’ve been optimizing my PC’s performance for Counter-Strike 2 all wrong! What I’m doing is painstakingly combing through my hardware settings, OS settings, and game settings in a confusing and sometimes panic-ridden mind muddle

Isn’t it about time to ditch your dual-monitor setup and get yourself a proper ultrawide OLED display? Like this 49-inch monster of an OLED monitor that’s only $800 on Amazon. That’s 20% off and down to the best price we’ve ever seen for it.

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Fractal Design makes some of the most aesthetically pleasing PC cases out there, and the North XL is a great pick if you’re building a massive powerhouse. Now you can do it with even more style on the inside, as it’s compatible with rear-connection mot

It’s easy to look strictly at the type of CPU and GPU you have when evaluating the kind of performance you’re likely to get in PC games. But beyond that lies another important stat, the CPU cache. Here’s why it’s so important in gaming and why it pays to maximize it.

What is the CPU cache?

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What’s better than having a power bank in your bag? A power bank that has a built-in USB-C cable so you don’t have to carry one of those around, too. The Anker Zolo is that power bank—and it’s on sale for $14.48 on Amazon with Prime plus the on-page 10% off coupon. (If you don

Windows 10 has been one of the best and most stable versions of the operating system from Microsoft, and it is no wonder that many users have waited to update to the new Windows 11. Despite its release in 2021, there are still significantly more people running Windows 10.

But now the clock is ticking for the system. In October 2025, the very last regular up

The newest graphics cards by Nvidia and AMD have been the talk of the PC gaming town since the start of the year, with big claims about boosted performance and better ray tracing. But the biggest gains in recent years have come in the forms of

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A combination of AMD’s 3D V-Cache, AI, and multiple cores offers enthusiasts a bold new opportunity for tweaking the performance of their PCs. But a new Asus BIOS option, Asus AI Cache Boost, takes the potential complexity out of it all, offering double-digit performance increases just by enabling the Cache Boost option.

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