How to Overclock Your Graphics Card for Better Gaming Performance

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles How to Find and Delete Google Assistant’s Stored Voice Data How To Quote Someone In WhatsApp How to Overclock Your Graphics Card for Better Gaming Performance iOS 11.2.2 Benchmarked: It Probably Won’t Slow Down Your iPhone Much What to Do If You Forget Your Mac’s Password How to Use Rulers in Microsoft Word What To Do If Your Smartphone Is Hot Five Ways to Free Up Space on Your Android Device Today's Review Geek Articles Five Fantastic Cable Organizers to Wrangle Your Messy Cables 6 Fun Educational Toys and Apps To Teach Your Kids Coding Geek Comic Today's Tech Term BPL BPL (short for Broadband Over Power Line) refers to the transmission of Internet data via utility power lines using a frequency range outside the range of AC power. BPL requires the use of a special broadband modem (phone, cable, or satellite) that is set up to plug into an electrical outlet. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Facebook Finally Blinks The world's biggest social network is going to prioritize posts from friends and family over news organizations. This will result in a massive drop in traffic for media companies and reduced responsibility for Facebook. [The Atlantic] Microsoft delivers PowerShell Core for Windows, Linux, macOS The advanced Windows shell is now coming to other operating systems. [ZDNet] Windows 10 Is Getting a More Configureable Quiet Hours Feature More options for controlling your notifications are on the way. [Thurrott.com] How to Find and Delete Google Assistant’s Stored Voice Data Every time you use Google Assistant, a recording of the command is uploaded to Google—that’s how it does what it does. A copy of this recording is also stored on your Google account, unless you manually go in and remove it. Read This Article → How To Quote Someone In WhatsApp If you're part of a WhatsApp group chat, the conversation can move fast. Set your phone down for an hour or two and you can easily come back to 100 messages. Normally this is fine, but if you've an important point to make or need to reply to a question from much earlier, you can't just weigh in without confusing everyone. Enter quoting messages. Read This Article → How to Overclock Your Graphics Card for Better Gaming Performance If you want a little extra oomph out of your PC’s graphics card without spending tons of cash on a new model, overclocking the GPU is a surprisingly simple way to go about it. And it has indeed become simple, on Windows-based PCs at least—while the process is time consuming, it doesn’t require any particular knowledge or advanced skills. Here’s how you go about it. Read This Article → iOS 11.2.2 Benchmarked: It Probably Won’t Slow Down Your iPhone Much Apple recently released the iOS 11.2.2 update, which is a dedicated security fix designed to address the Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws. This has a small impact on performance on PCs, but will it slow down your iPhone, too? We benchmarked several models of iPhones to find out. The short answer? Your iPhone probably won’t slow down as much as you fear. Read This Article → What to Do If You Forget Your Mac’s Password Can’t remember your Mac’s password? Don’t worry. With the default settings, you can simply try logging into your Mac. Fail enough times and you’ll be able to reset your password with your Apple ID. But this won’t always work. Read This Article → How to Use Rulers in Microsoft Word Word’s rulers let you control the margins of your page and the indentation of paragraphs. They’re great for precisely lining up images, text, and other elements. If you’re printing a document, the rulers can help ensure that what you see on your screen translates into what you’ll get on the printed page. Read This Article → What To Do If Your Smartphone Is Hot Unlike your computer, your smartphone doesn't have fans or any other active way to keep itself cool. Instead, to keep them working within acceptable temperatures, smartphone manufacturers count on passive cooling methods and the fact that most people don't do too many super intensive tasks with their phones. Read This Article → Five Ways to Free Up Space on Your Android Device Android phones and tablets can fill up quickly as you download apps, add media files like music and movies, and cache data for use offline. Many lower-end devices may only include a few gigabytes of storage, making this even more of a problem. 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