Rich Edmonds Apr 19, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
…Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path. Besides being the first…
…An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building…
…But over time, the performance issues persisted, and I migrated Home Assistant's duties to my mini PC. As I got familiar with the ESP32 microcontrollers , building devices became fun. Yet I…
…Sign in to your XDA account As PC gamers, many of us have gone down the path of upgrading one or two parts of our PC while leaving the rest untouched, hoping…
…to build a bunch of conventional Raspberry Pi projects, while sipping a fraction of the energy and costing well under $10 for a couple of boards. Typical x86 mini-PCs and SBCs…
…I test a lot of apps on my main Windows PC and a few virtual machines, and the files gradually build up. Removing apps still leaves a lot of items, and Fluent…
…Sign in to your XDA account Thermal interface materials seldom get a mention in the PC building discourse , but it's an essential catalyst for effective CPU and GPU cooling . Selecting the…
Rich Edmonds May 13, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
…Switching from Pi to a mini PC changed a lot of things Less time firefighting while building Shifting my experiments and projects to a mini PC gave them a performance boost. The…