Microsoft has invited reporters to New York City for a “special Microsoft event,” on September 21, most likely signaling a refresh of Microsoft Surface hardware against the backdrop of the most recent Windows 11 update.
Microsoft’s playing it close to the vest; the invitation doesn’t offer any clues aside from the Microsoft logo in a
If you’ve been waiting for mid-range Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards, your wait is almost over…or at least, your wait for their official confirmation. According to a Twitter post from an AMD vice president, the company is planning a big reveal at Gamescom in Germany on August 25th. That would be an ideal time to announce
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- Many useful clean-up and optimization tools
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If you’re streaming your gameplay to a group of friends and/or family, there’s a new option in town: Microsoft Teams. Yes, you read that right. Microsoft has added a new integration for the Xbox Game Bar that allows livestreaming to the company’s business-focused chat and video-calling app.
Microsoft has been filling up Windows builds with questionably necessary add-on programs for decades, and for just as long, power users have been stripping them out. Some have gone so far as to create custom installation media with trimmed-down builds. But in an upcoming Windows 11 release, you won’t need to go to such drastic lengths, at least for some of the
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Current CPUs from AMD and Intel now support RAM with quite fast clock rates: up to 3200MHz with DDR4 RAM and 5600MHz with DDR5. Furthermore, higher clock frequencies are no longer unusual—in these cases, the use of a special profile allows the correct control of the RAM. However, to get these clock rates, you have to adjust a setting in the BIOS (alternative: m