How to check your PC's full specifications on Windows 10

Here are the five best ways to find out the technical specifications of your computer on Windows 10. On Windows 10, checking ...

Borderlands 4 maker says your old PC hardware is to blame for the game’s poor performance – even though it struggles to run on an RTX 5090

The minimum and recommended specs are published. The most common hardware is a four year old cell phone. Borderlands 4 is a ...

Firmware is the weak link in your PC’s security. Here’s how to stay safe

Firmware is the low-level software that is deeply integrated into the hardware of your device. It sits beneath higher-level software and your PC’s hardware and acts as a kind of bridge running the ...
Hackaday

Moving Software Down To Hardware

In theory, any piece of software could be built out of discrete pieces of hardware, provided there are enough transistors, passive components, and time available. In general, though, we’re much more ...
PC World

You want to run a virtual PC? Know what hardware you’ll need

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...
TechSpot

John Carmack suggests the world could run on older hardware – if we optimized software better

In context: Google researcher and reverse engineer "LaurieWired" recently posed a thought-provoking thread on X: What would happen after a CPU manufacturing apocalypse? How would the tech world ...
PCMag Australia on MSN

Is the 'Steam Frame' Valve's Next Hardware Device?

Valve registers the 'Steam Frame' trademark for use in the video game console, peripheral, and computer hardware categories.

Windows 10 end-of-support could spark PC gaming hardware boom

Analysts at Jon Peddie Research predict that shipments of PC gaming hardware will jump by 35% this year. The firm highlights Windows 11 upgrade requirements as ...