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  2. The ultimate guide to computer health: How to ensure optimal ...

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    If your computer is experiencing one or more of these issues, you should run a detailed health check. This will help you uncover the root cause, create a repair strategy, and take immediate action.

  3. Hardware stress test - Wikipedia

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    Stress testing, in general, should put computer hardware under exaggerated levels of stress in order to ensure stability when used in a normal environment. These can include extremes of workload, type of task, memory use, thermal load (heat), clock speed, or voltages. Memory and CPU are two components that are commonly stress tested in this way.

  4. Thrashing (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, thrashing occurs in a system with virtual memory when a computer's real storage resources are overcommitted, leading to a constant state of paging and page faults, slowing most application-level processing. [1] This causes the performance of the computer to degrade or even collapse. The situation can continue indefinitely ...

  5. Computer performance - Wikipedia

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    In computing, computer performance is the amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system. Outside of specific contexts, computer performance is estimated in terms of accuracy, efficiency and speed of executing computer program instructions. When it comes to high computer performance, one or more of the following factors might be involved:

  6. Computer cooling - Wikipedia

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    A finned air cooled heatsink with fan clipped onto a CPU, with a smaller passive heatsink without fan in the background A 3-fan heatsink mounted on a video card to maximize cooling efficiency of the GPU and surrounding components Commodore 128DCR computer's switch-mode power supply, with a user-installed 60 mm cooling fan. Vertical aluminium ...

  7. Memory leak - Wikipedia

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    A memory leak can cause an increase in memory usage and performance run-time, and can negatively impact the user experience. [4] Eventually, in the worst case, too much of the available memory may become allocated and all or part of the system or device stops working correctly, the application fails, or the system slows down vastly due to ...

  8. System Mechanic Software | 30-Day Free* Trial | AOL Products

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    Once downloaded, it helps speed up slow computers by removing unnecessary software and files and fixes problems to help keep your PC stable and issue free, saving you time, money and the ...

  9. Thermal design power - Wikipedia

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    Thermal Design Power (TDP), also known as thermal design point, is the maximum amount of heat that a computer component (like a CPU, GPU or system on a chip) can generate and that its cooling system is designed to dissipate during normal operation at a non-turbo clock rate (base frequency).