When I first dropped into a heavily contested lobby in Call of Duty: Warzone, I expected the game to run without any frame drops and with immediate response to my commands. My in-game telemetry showed frame rates that were far lower than what my hardware should have delivered. I spent the entire day trying to solve different display driver issues after I first suspected that background processes were causing problems with my system performance. The system had enough processing power to deliver 1440p graphics at high refresh rates, but an unknown factor prevented the system from operating at it
My motherboard’s default BIOS settings were secretly killing my gaming experience…The RTX 3070, however, exceeded my expectations, and that's even before I dropped to DLSS presets like Balanced and Performance, which have now become incredibly impressive in image quality and temporal…
…Most leading manufacturers like to pitch this as a " one-click optimization " that lets you effortlessly squeeze every drop of performance out of your components without needing to tweak settings for every…
…sure you're getting the performance out of the components you paid for. Stacked together, the difference is genuinely noticeable. Games feel smoother , input latency drops, and the system stops doing the…
Ty Sherback Apr 20, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer…
…The most common use for this is to drop connections to known ad servers, and this is a pretty big deal, especially nowadays. Ads are necessary to support websites you care about…
…Practically every browser or AI company you can think of dropped some version of an AI browser. Opera kicked things off with its agentic Neon browser, Perplexity then dropped Comet , and OpenAI…
…Another big issue you might come across is the uptime performance drop. This means that your network might feel fine on Monday, but by Friday everything is sluggish, and your devices are…
…While GIMP does have a paint dropper, it never felt readily on hand; meanwhile, Krita lets you activate the paint dropper by holding down Ctrl. Click the color you want to load…
Ty Sherback Apr 14, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer…
…The Ultra Preset is a psychological trap designed to sell hardware, while high or medium optimized settings actually offer you 90% of the visuals for 150% of the performance. Related I tried…