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Cleaning up what you cannot see to feel the speed.

My computer developed a flickering problem that started subtly. For a split second, it goes black, the icons redraw, and the taskbar disappears briefly. This behavior wasn't constant, and I couldn't ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

Windows 11 ships with many new features and improvements compared to earlier versions of Windows, of which most, if not all, are heavy on system resources. Probably the reason why Microsoft is ...

We've reported on the performance problems with Ryzen CPUs under Windows 11 a few times now, and produced our own test results to demonstrate the issues. AMD and Microsoft said they had patches ...

In a computer, the entire memory can be separated into different levels based on access time and capacity. Figure 1 shows different levels in the memory hierarchy. Smaller and faster memories are kept ...