THREE WAYS TO WIN BY DOING NOTHING

Our 30 tips will make a difference to your PC, but there are some commonly requested tweaks that are a complete waste of time.

HIGHER WATTAGE PSU = FASTER PC It’s an understandable confusion as an 800W power supply unit (PSU) is definitely capable of delivering more power than a 400W unit, but that’s not how they work. A PC requires a certain amount of voltage to run and, provided your PSU can deliver enough of it (measured in Watts), then all is well. Fitting a 1,200W PSU to a machine requiring only 300W won’t make it go any faster. The machine draws power from the PSU rather than the PSU pushing the power into the PC. DEFRAGGING AN SSD When Windows 98 ruled the world, defragging the drive became a common maintenance routine. The process reunites file fragments into a contiguous block, which is beneficial for spinning drives that lose time by srambling…

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