Ways to Boost Your Gaming Rig

If there’s anything that’s not optimized about your PC, your games speed will suffer: they’ll stutter and won't look as beautiful as they could. That’s what this series about: making your games look stunning, fluid and simply more enjoyable.

#Upgrade your Graphics Drivers for an immediate FPS boost

Your graphics card is the centerpiece of your gaming experience (more on that below), but it can’t unfold its true performance without the proper software installed on your PC or laptop. Going from the driver that came either with your PC or with your graphics card to the latest version can make a large performance difference. Just look at nVidias latest graphics drivers, for example:

#Supercharge Your Graphics Card: A Slight Overclock Doesn’t Hurt!

Your gaming performance is mostly dependent on the power of your graphics chip – even more so than on how much memory your have or how fast your processor is! The bottleneck and the reason for stuttering gameplay is in almost all cases the graphics chip. To improve performance, you may want to look at running the graphics card beyond the factory speed setting – or in other words: overclocking! Now, 5-10 years ago, I wouldn’t have recommended overclocking as it posed a significant threat to your hardware, but nowadays most systems turn themselves off automatically before they take any damage. Besides, I only recommend a slight overclock by about 10-15%.

Boost Your FPS with AVG PC TuneUp’s “Uninstaller” and “Program Deactivator”

Windows® keeps getting slower and slower with each program you install on your PC or laptop – and that has a direct effect on all of your games! The reason for this is that a lot of programs run some sort of background activity, even when they’re not being used. AVG makes it easy to uninstall programs that you don’t use and even reduce the impact of ones that you need.

On my desktop gaming PC, an Alienware Area 51 R2, I pushed the two GeForce Titan Xp (2017) (SLI) roughly 15-20% above their factory clock