You invest time, money, and effort into your gaming setup, yet even small maintenance habits can limit its actual performance. A quick dusting, a driver update, or a few software tweaks might seem enough to keep things running. However, when frame rates start to drop during a crucial match, when fans grow louder with every session, or when your desktop computer begins to emit a faint burnt smell after hours of play, it becomes clear that surface-level fixes no longer suffice.

For gamers, nothing kills the excitement faster than stuttering gameplay, random crashes, or watching your FPS drop mid-match. You’ve...

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You tell yourself it's fine. It just takes a few more seconds to load the spreadsheet. Or to open a browser tab. Or to start up in the...