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Mark Williams is always checking for updates, sometimes they can give a nice surprise.

"Some updates and revisions go completely under the radar, usually because they’re stability or safety related – something companies don’t want to admit to failing at." Updates and new revisions to PC products and parts are commonplace, but how much do they really make a difference? The most common kind are driver updates. Even if the hardware undergoes no physical alteration since launch, drivers can make a huge difference to performance and stability. Typically, general overall performance can rise some five percent over the course of a year for graphics card drivers, but that glosses over double digit rises in individual games, not uncommonly in new game titles. Intel’s ARC cards, for instance, have seen double and even triple digit percentage improvements since it was launched. Indicating how far behind…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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