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Our PCs are great when they are running smoothly, but time slows our systems and converting our HD to an SSD will give us the boost that will help us keep our pc for a little longer. I share with you a my process of speeding up my moms old laptop.
Thank you and hope you enjoy the video review.
Continue reading “Speed Up Your Computer Using These Two Devices – TK Bay”
It’s a gripe I’m sure NVIDIA hoped would have blown over by now, but quite the opposite, as it looks like Big Green is facing a class action lawsuit.
The issue stems from how NVIDIA advertised the GTX 970 as including 4GB of RAM. While this is technically true, only 3.5GB is high speed, and that last 512MB is a separate slow bit. Whenever the card needs to access that last partition, performance suffers.
When gamers discovered the anomaly, it was hoped that there might be some kind of driver or software update to improve performance as the card utilized that last half a gig. Unfortunately, it would seem NVIDIA purposely designed the card this way, likely hamstringing it to distance performance from their top tier card the GTX 980. Continue reading “Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over NVIDIA Falsely Advertising GTX 970 RAM”
Got another great reader question. Thought I’d take to the Youtube’s to answer it!
From Youtube viewer TableReadTheater:
Hey Juan,
I have an older PC, like 3 or 4 years. It still runs ok, but I want to start doing some video editing. I can’t buy a new system yet, but I can spend a little on a few parts. What kinds of upgrades can I do to help it run better for video?