STOP HOLDING YOUR MACHINE BACK; UNLOCK ITS FULL POTENTIAL
WE LOVE PERFORMANCE on Maximum PC. It would be our middle name, if we had one. Whether we’re looking at high-end hardware or the latest budget offerings, we want the best performance possible from the components used, often pushing things even harder with a little judicious overclocking to eke out those last few percentage points. There’s something plenty of us fall on down, though, and that’s on the software front. Specifically, the OS. If performance is important to you—and given you’re reading Maximum PC, it probably is—a clean install of Windows is what you really want. Whether you’ve just installed a new component, or have been rocking the same hardware for a while, cutting out all the detritus and bloat of a well-used operating system can give any machine a new…