Frame generation promised smoother gaming, but it exposed new bottlenecks
…It can make games look smoother and help your GPU stretch its legs further, but it's not a quick fix for any bottlenecks. At best, it'll mask those limitations in…
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When I first dropped into a heavily contested lobby in Call of Duty: Warzone, I expected the game to run without any frame drops and with immediate response to my commands. My in-game telemetry showed frame rates that were far lower than what my hardware should have delivered. I spent the entire day trying to solve different display driver issues after I first suspected that background processes were causing problems with my system performance. The system had enough processing power to deliver 1440p graphics at high refresh rates, but an unknown factor prevented the system from operating at it
My motherboard’s default BIOS settings were secretly killing my gaming experienceI upgraded to DDR5, but my gaming experience barely changed
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Your motherboard's fastest storage slot might not be the one you should actually use first
…for gaming workloads. That's not nothing, but it's not catastrophic either. The lower the PCIe version of your GPU, the more affected it is by this bandwidth limitation. The stronger…
CachyOS has a one-click Windows VM button, and dual-booting feels completely outdated
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Mixture-of-experts models quietly changed what hardware you need for local AI
…Related High-VRAM GPUs aren't the future of local AI — unified memory and Mixture of Experts models are GPUs are fast, but they have limited RAM. Unified memory machines are big…
I paid for Perplexity, Claude, and NotebookLM, and only one was worth keeping
…Outside of work, you'll often find Nolen diving into a good book, writing their own stories, or playing video games. Sign in to your XDA account There's a point in…
SteamOS 3.9 is the closest thing to a perfect desktop Linux I've ever used
…It cuts out the extra hop through Gaming Mode and makes the whole system feel more like a proper Linux PC every time you power it on. It’s a tiny tweak…
I stopped carrying a laptop after trying Android's desktop mode
…Real multitasking with proper window management No setup needed, just your phone scaled up The entire system is pretty straightforward to get started with and all you really need to do is…
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Rainmeter turned my boring Windows desktop into something I actually enjoy looking at every day
…when you open a game or a demanding app. There are several other settings that you can fiddle with, but I mostly keep using these, and the system tray icon to load…