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Best CPU, Video Card and RAM Tuning Utilities
October 27th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore | File in: Reviews (http://helpdeskgeek.com/category/reviews/), Tools Review
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If you want to optimize or configure your PC’s CPU processor, video card or even RAM memory for better performance, you
have a few different options. Using some readily available freeware downloads from manufacturers and other software
companies, you can easily tweak the performance of most of the components of your computer.
AMD OverDrive
If your computer utilizes an AMD CPU, you can adjust performance settings, speed and timing for the CPU and RAM memory
as well as a few other components using AMD’s free OverDrive software.
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NVIDIA Control Panel
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MSI’s Afterburner utility is a popular app that is compatible with both NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon based setups. With
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EVGA Precision X
EVGA’s Precision X is a similar GPU enhancement program to MSI’s Afterburner. Specializing in GeForce controllers, the
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CPUID
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Those are just a few utilities for overclocking, tweaking, and monitoring the performance of CPUs, video cards and RAM
memory. If any of our site visitors have any other recommended utilities, feel free to link to them in the comments section.
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