I wish I realized my RAM wasn't running at full speed earlier
…If anything, I was more distracted by the CPU swap itself and how much better my GPU usage would be with the 5800X3D. It wasn't until I started paying attention to…
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That tempered glass panel is silently destroying your GPU's cooling, and here's how to fix it
1d agoVRAM was the only spec that decided which old GPUs actually survived
3d agoThe Steam Survey shows exactly how Nvidia gets away with smaller GPU upgrades
1w agoWSL 3 will finally let Linux apps use your GPU and NPU without the performance tax
1w agoValve already lost me on the Steam Machine, and now I don't even know who it's actually for
…RTX 4060, which are the two most used GPUs, according to the Steam Hardware Survey. Valve is conceivably trying to carve out a new market out of the existing PC gaming audience…
These old gaming CPUs are costing you frames you didn't know you were losing
…without them realizing, it becomes the new normal. As the system's performance starts to suffer, they blame drivers, the OS, or even the GPU. But the processor rarely gets questioned in…
AMD's X3D CPUs aged so well that gamers won't upgrade, and that's a nightmare for AM5
…don't feel the urge to splurge on a new board and RAM kit. Related AM4 might still be supported when AM6 launches, but that doesn’t mean you should buy into…
I spent weeks chasing a DisplayPort problem that HDMI solved in seconds
…different drivers, and eventually tried swapping to an Nvidia GPU, which came with an entirely new signal problem. On the AMD GPU, the signal issues presented themselves as a thin static line…
I stopped using motherboard audio after one cheap USB DAC solved every problem I had
…Whenever I launched a demanding game or stressed my GPU, a faint electrical buzzing would leak into my headphones. Sometimes even scrolling through webpages created subtle static sounds that became impossible to…
Proton is better than ever before, but here's why I still prefer gaming on Windows 11
…At launch, the game checked for Nvidia's new 596-series driver, which was already available prior to release on Windows but hadn't yet arrived on Linux, leaving players stuck on…
The 5800X3D is the 1080 Ti of CPUs, but I wouldn't buy one today
…That makes it hard for me to recommend the 5800X3D to anyone planning to build a new PC today. Now, you may argue that the 5800X3D won't bottleneck most GPUs today…
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x shows that the Snapdragon PC era is here
…Critically, it has Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Elite processor under the hood, a massive improvement for the laptop that was among the first devices to launch in May 2024. It's…
Frame generation breaks HDR in some games, but Nvidia's driver-level fix actually works better
…This has been a problem in some games ever since Nvidia launched frame generation alongside RTX 40-series GPUs in 2022. The first time I actually experienced this issue was while playing…