…My SSD was obviously the first thing I suspected, but everything seemed to check out. The one thing I glossed over was the drive's firmware, which I had never thought of…
Ty Sherback May 22, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer…
…for those chasing the last few bits of performance , bank address hashing is where things get really interesting. Related AM5 is the first CPU socket I've trusted to last, and it…
…I could have used this to edit cloud documents, but the truth is I don't really like LibreOffice and its derivatives, and it performed less than ideally when I had it…
…Every time you decide on a new component for your build, the first thought is whether it'll fit or choke airflow, not how much performance you're getting. And that shift…
…Turns out, the cluster’s performance was worse than a standalone SBC I blame slow network provisions for this bottleneck Since I was using the fairly lightweight Gemma 3 4B, I expected…
…And I agree, those are important, and that’s why I built my own home server in the first place. But a home server can run dozens of containers and still feel…
…It was introduced to bring a watch-party experience natively into the platform without needing third-party tools. Not quite — the feature is called SyncPlay. It's Jellyfin's native synchronized playback…
…first GPU, a term the company actually coined for the occasion. While dedicated 3D accelerator cards like the 3dfx Voodoo had existed since 1996, the GeForce 256 was distinguished by performing transform…
…The first hurdle is the inability to create a local account . You must sign in with a Microsoft account, and then you can proceed. There are a few hacks to get past…