If you're upgrading to Windows 11, Microsoft says the minimum requirements are 4GB of RAM, but I'd still recommend 16GB as the baseline standard. If you have more than that, even better, but for most ...

The relationship between RAM and CPU is often misunderstood. Your CPU can only work as fast as it can get data from the memory. When you speed up memory, whether by enabling XMP or making manual ...

The Lenovo LOQ 15 is effectively a portable RTX 5060 graphics card. Its game performance is a good value for its current sale ...

Your motherboard, and by extension, BIOS, also has a lot of control over how your CPU performs. After being frustrated for months thinking my CPU was maxed out, I played around with these BIOS ...

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Apple has been using this laptop design for about four years now, since it released the M1 Pro and M1 Max versions of the ...

You can easily offload some of the CPU tasks to other components, like the GPU, and free up resources for your computer to perform better.

When shopping for a laptop under $250, choices are limited. The Testing Lab had the chance to pit two budget laptops against ...

While much improved, Lenovo's Legion Go 2 isn't the generational leap forward fans may have wanted. Still, it's a respectable upgrade for anyone who wants decent handheld PC gaming performance while ...

Along with some other improvements, File Explorer in Windows 11 will be getting some new AI-powered features: There is still an issue where DRM content can fail to play in Blu-ray/DVD apps (but not in ...