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Built for Speed

By Loyd Case
Design by Dan Maronn

• Intro
• Graphic Images
• The Sound and the Fury
• Platter Chatter
• How's your ISP treating you?
• Other Tuning Tips
RELATED LINKS

Graphics:
3D graphics cards
  and other great tweaks


Networking:
Windows 95 networking FAQ


General Windows:
www.koan.com/

www.annoyances.org/win98/

And finally, a little shameless self-promotion:
PCWorkshop

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July 99 CGW
Let's face it: PCs are more complex than ever. This is especially true if you're a hard-core gamer, since you've most likely got a big hard drive, perhaps a Voodoo2 SLI, a fast primary graphics card, a 3D positional audio accelerator, and an Internet connection. Keeping the whole thing well tuned is enough to make you quit your day job, or become a Luddite.

So it's time to revisit performance tuning. I'm going to take you down some side streets and examine some free or nearly free ways of maximizing your performance. I'll try to cover each area individually, then look at the whole enchilada.

Help meNEXT