These Nvidia App tweaks transformed my games, and most RTX owners never use them
Ty Sherback Apr 21, 2026, 12:01 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…
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Right now, we are in a structural shortage that probably won't see relief for a good couple of years. As a result, so much consumer hardware feels like it's vanishing. With budget gaming PCs disappearing, Nvidia's Super Series potentially in jeopardy, and the Steam Machine currently in limbo too. The silver lining of all of this is that this crisis might force a software revolution where developers have to finally stop being lazy with RAM optimization. For now, the hardware we want is sitting on a shelf in a designer's drawer, waiting for the prices to drop to make it accessible for the averag
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Stop buying third-party apps for Windows when these free tools from Microsoft already do the job
…Keep Windows lean The best way to optimize your PC isn’t by adding more software, but by utilizing the tools you already have. While third-party developers will always push the…
I ditched Perplexity after a month because Claude was already doing everything I paid for
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Frame generation promised smoother gaming, but it exposed new bottlenecks
…He uses a Windows PC for desktop use and a MacBook for traveling, but dislikes some of the quirks of macOS. You're more likely to catch him at the gym or…
Nvidia's restarting RTX 3060 production, and it's good news for gamers, great news for homelabbers
…Memory shortages, AI demand, and absurd pricing have completely reshaped what a "budget" or "mid-range" GPU even means today. So instead of pushing newer cards into a broken supply chain, Nvidia…
My mesh Wi-Fi was actually making my internet worse - here's what actually worked
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An RTX 3070 is living proof that software now matters more than hardware
…your PC upgrade budget until you've fixed these 3 things first You can't just blindly upgrade your CPU or GPU. The RTX 3070 benefits greatly from DLSS AI-based upscaling…