What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.

Poor storage disk performance and slow disk speeds are some of the most common reasons your computer might feel sluggish. If ...

Many of us use powerful desktop PCs, and that means, one has to regularly keep up with its performance. It’s even worse when you’ve overclocked your computer because that’s when things get extremely ...

Phoronix's Michael Larabel is doing some performance testing on Walmart's $199 Motile-branded M141 laptop, which has an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U processor, Vega 3 graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 14-inch 1080p ...

Windows 11 October 2025 update (KB5066835) caused reduced in-game performance on some Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia released Hotfix ...

We benchmarked a recent Dell laptop under both versions of Windows to see the performance differences in everyday apps. I’ve been a consumer PC expert at PCMag for 10 years, and I love PC gaming. I've ...

Microsoft is testing a new optional feature that preloads File Explorer in the background to improve launch times on Windows ...

Security is key to Windows 11—and also one of the reasons it’s breaking with the long-held tradition of legacy hardware support and basically dumping every PC made before 2017 overboard. Why? The ...

Optional updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 released in January have fixed performance problems when playing games, using the operating system, or even opening folders in File Explorer. With the ...

This article is more than 6 years old. How massive is massive? Tests on impacted Windows 10 PCs found Chromium performance runs 3-4x slower on average than on Windows 7, which is not affected by the ...