Intel's Arrow Lake refresh should have arrived months ago
…Pros & Cons More E-cores puts it in Core Ultra 7 265K range Great thermals Very affordable at $199 Not long until Nova Lake releases Stuck on a dead socket Compatible motherboards…
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Wi-Fi 7 is incredibly fast, but I still wouldn't use it on my gaming PC
…Online gaming is all about latency, not speed Wi-Fi 7's absurd speeds don't solve the inherent problem of a wireless connection I'm someone who plays a lot of…
Free Claude and Perplexity almost killed my ChatGPT Plus subscription
…By the time I'd attached the motherboard PDF and the Python script, I was already getting "you've reached the file upload limit on the Free plan" warnings. That ceiling won…
My next CPU cooler will be an AIO liquid cooler, and the reason has nothing to do with temperatures
…That amount of thermal capacity can easily take care of my Ryzen 7 7800X3D, and if I were to upgrade to a 9800X3D or beyond, I shouldn't have any problems cooling…
Entry-level PC market is hit the worst by RAM pricing, but there's a bigger crisis looming
…The list of consumer electronic devices becoming more unaffordable keeps growing, and the industry giants seem to have some decidedly anti-consumer solutions to the problem. Who priced out the first-time…
I almost bought a used Nvidia Tesla GPU for my home lab, then I read what owners actually deal with
…Might as well put its PCIe slots to good use Even just passing it through normally has problems This isn't a normal GPU Okay, so vGPU is a massive headache, but…
I 3D printed 8 desk accessories, but these are the ones I actually kept
…Items that solve a problem I acknowledge, no matter how trivial, with the simplest of engineering. Desk accessories fit squarely in that realm, making my everyday interaction with items on my desk…
Your external SSD is probably slower than it should be, and the cable is the culprit
…problem is compounded by the fact that USB-C ports aren't always clearly labeled. Unlike USB-A ports that are color-coded to indicate the standard, USB-C ports on motherboards…
Windows 11 hibernation has been silently hammering your SSD this whole time
…Paired with 32GB of RAM, I had no problems preserving my system state with Hibernate, including dozens of browser tabs, background utilities, and heavy IDE workspaces. Lately, I've noticed a disturbing…
My 3D printer pays for itself every time I skip buying a PC accessory
…Managing messy wires, screws, and random devices would be a lot harder without my 3D printer Starting with the problem that has plagued my tinkering lab ever since I built my first…