The stability of your polling rate is important for having consistent mouse movements that feel natural and snappy. There are plenty of online Hz checker tools but those offer limited readings and should not be considered a valid metric of how stable your polling rate is. The best tool currently available to test your mouse […]

Your GPU temperatures are dependent on your heatsink plus fans combo and the thermal paste that acts as a bridge between the die and the heatsink. Having dead fans, or a bad/old thermal paste application in most cases equals a very hot graphics card causing issues for your PC. An important question when dealing with […]

Your graphics card is one of the components that works the hardest in your PC when you are gaming or completing tasks that can be GPU accelerated that is why it is important to keep it cool at all times. While not common, dead fans (grinding fans, slower RPM, uneven rotation, etc) on a GPU […]

Accidents happen and depending on how fast you act you can save your electronic devices from permanent water damage or complete failure. The one peripheral that this applies to the most is your keyboard since it is an open device with a lot of crevices water can seep through. So you spilled a bunch of […]

Although internet speed is not that important when it comes to gaming, having a fast connection means you can download your games faster and watch content in very high resolutions without interruptions. While there are ways to optimize your connection, having a fast internet plan and receiving the full speed from your ISP is probably […]

External storage is often necessary, when we don’t want to burden our internal hardware. Whether you have an SSD or a hard drive, you don’t want all your data to be kept internally. This would tax and limit the internal storage, which could be used for storing working data, or rather, data that you immediately […]

The older you are the higher the probability that you always safely eject your USB drives since this has been ingrained in our collective memory. The times have changed, and in truth, in 99% of cases, you can just yank your USB drive out and be on your merry way with no repercussions. The Quick […]

Hardware acceleration in apps has been a staple for a long time since you can complete tasks more efficiently with specialized hardware. When it comes to gaming, however, having hardware-accelerated apps run alongside your game can cause troubles, and here is why. What Is Hardware Acceleration? Hardware acceleration is the process through which apps gain […]

In recent years, video games have been advertised with ray tracing, a technology which supposedly makes the gaming experience almost magical. Other than the obvious advertising campaigns launched with the release of the Nvidia 2000 series graphics cards in 2018. However, ray tracing is a technology beyond one company’s marketing department, meant to enhance lighting […]

Tuning your webcam for the perfect look with color settings and overlays is quite fun until you realize most of these settings do not get picked up if you use different software. Moreover, a lot of the apps we use to communicate do not even support any sort of tuning for your webcam. Since I […]

A lot of myths from the olden times of gaming make their way into modern gaming communities and are perpetuated without understanding whether these are true or not. One of these myths is that you should always have your Windows cursor speed set to the default value (6th notch or mouse sensitivity set to 10 […]

The current generation of wireless mice is simply incredible in terms of performance with 4000 Hz polling rate and amazing sensor accuracy. At the same time, the biggest issue that has popped up so far is that because of the increased polling rate and the need to keep the mice lightweight, battery life has dropped […]