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Turn your old laptop into low-end gaming machine


Make your foldable e-waste run games with all it has

CPU: Mid-tier/limited (even back when it was released), likely from Haswell era RAM: 8Gb, ancient and unupgradable GPU: iGPU + NVIDIA M-something STORAGE:~256Gb SATA HDD, that is still somehow works Expectations: OS has low overhead Reality: Windows always gonna do a lot of stuff in the background (even when you cripple it by “de-bloating”). If you have a very old Intel CPU consider disabling things like Speedstep(current implementation is fine, but back in the early days it was a mess).

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