9 cheap or free ways to make your old PC run faster
THE SO WHAT
PC performance is increasingly a software and configuration problem, not just a hardware one — especially as AI workloads creep onto endpoints. For IT and power users, squeezing another cycle out of existing machines is now a lever in the capex vs. AI-client upgrade tradeoff.
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