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Hardware Tips: Free Tools Help Keep Your Hardware Humming

Kirk Steers

Polish Your Image

If you're picky about your PC's display, use Entech's PowerStrip utility to tweak your graphics card (or the graphics integrated onto your system board) for the best display image possible. The program permits more than 500 types of adjustments, from gamma settings to clock speed. It works with a wide selection of graphics cards and integrated graphics, including models from ATI, Intel, Matrox, and nVidia. Programmable hot-keys let you change settings quickly--for example, you can brighten a dark hallway in your favorite game. PowerStrip is free to try and $30 to keep.

Click here for past Hardware Tips columns. Send your tips and questions to kirk_steers@pcworld.com. We pay $50 for published items. Kirk Steers is a PC World contributing editor and the author of PC Upgrading and Troubleshooting Quicksteps from McGraw Hill/Osborne Press.

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