I removed my biggest PC bottleneck, and immediately found another
…At 4K, it's roughly 27% faster than my 4090, but at 1440p, it's only about 12% faster on average, according to benchmarks by Hardware Unboxed. That gap alone should tell…
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Your old Kindle will stop working on May 20th, but here's what I'm using mine for
…The hardware will work just fine, but it's clear that Amazon is forcing you to move on. Turns out, as a collector of Kindles, I'm in the same boat. But…
We have reached the GPU ceiling, and AI tricks like DLSS are how companies pretend we haven't
…And in that gap between what games demand and what hardware can realistically deliver, AI, which was meant to help, has now quietly taken over. Related Stop calling it AI slop — upscaling…
The gaming industry's biggest lie is about what your setup needs — here's what actually matters
…A solid pair of headphones paired with a decent standalone mic will deliver dramatically better audio quality on both ends. Not only would your games and music sound richer and more enjoyable…
Chasing the highest average framerate makes your games feel worse — here’s what I did instead
…Related Nvidia’s most slept-on RTX feature doubled my framerate, and it isn’t what you think This one setting was a total game changer Capping your FPS dramatically reduces latency…
I replaced my ChatGPT subscription with a local AI coding tool and haven't looked back
…If you have less VRAM to work with than that, you'll need to stick with the 14B model, which will result in a noticeable (but not too dramatic) dip in performance…
Most "slow PC" advice you'll find online is 20 years out of date, and some of it is making things worse
…The problem is that the hardware underneath it has changed completely, and the software is very different, too. Most of that advice was written for a world where your primary drive was…
I still regret these 4 PC building blunders that haunted my upgrade path for years
…I hope I get the opportunity sooner rather than later, considering the DRAM crisis and skyrocketing hardware prices . Related 5 times I cut corners during a PC build — and why I always…
CachyOS skipped the Open Gaming Collective, and gamers rewarded it by making it the top Linux distro on Steam
…The percentage of Linux users reported by Steam's hardware survey reached an all-time high in 2026, and any effort to streamline and push performance and reliability further can only be…
I change these 5 storage settings on every new PC build, and they prevent headaches later
…Compared to a decade ago, we've come a very long way, but the defaults drives and motherboards ship with today are tuned for the widest possible range of hardware: laptops on…