Your motherboard's default settings are tuned for stability, not speed
…For instance, my Ryzen 9 5900X had no issues running my 64GB DDR4 kit at its rated speed of 3600MT/s, but when I later switched to the 5800X3D, I had to…
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NAS makers are slowly admitting people want home servers, not just storage boxes
…Synology DiskStation DS923+ CPU AMD Ryzen R1600 Memory 4 GB DDR4 $543 at Amazon $643 at Newegg
NVMe is faster on paper, but your actual workload probably doesn't care
…Samsung 980 Pro 1TB Storage capacity 1TB Hardware Interface PCIe 4.0 Brand Samsung Transfer rate 7,000/5,000 MB/s read/write TBW 600 DRAM 1GB DDR4 $245 at Amazon
I stopped upgrading my PC blindly, and it completely changed how I spend my money
…For instance, you may have tried future-proofing your PC in 2020 with 64GB of DDR4 RAM as I did, but when DDR5 memory started gaining popularity, I still felt like I…
Your X3D CPU cares less about RAM speed than you do
…When I upgraded, I wasn't able to get my 64GB DDR4-3600 kit running at its rated speed. I had to settle for 3200MT/s to keep everything stable, but despite…
7 things I stopped paying for after getting a NAS
…QNAP TS-464 Brand QNAP CPU Intel Celeron N5095 Memory 8GB DDR4 (max. 8GB) Drive Bays 4 QNAP's TS-464 is an impressive four-bay NAS with a striking design, powerful…
My entire home lab cost less than a new GPU, and it does more for me too
…The Z170 board in my rig has multiple PCIe slots, four DIMM slots that take up to 64GB of DDR4, six SATA ports, and an M.2 slot. An N100 mini PC…
Running Ollama on a 15W CPU sounded ridiculous until I got it working with decent results
…For reference, this Minisforum U850 mini PC has the Intel Core i5-10210U CPU with four cores, and there's 16 GB of DDR4-2666 RAM. That's fairly underwhelming for a…
I upgraded to AM5 expecting a massive jump, but the real upgrade surprised me
…Both were flagships at the time, with PCIe 3.0, one M.2 slot, dual-channel DDR4 (up to 3600 MT/s), overclocking support, and solidly-built PCBs. But that was a…
I added a second Ethernet port to my NAS and finally stopped fighting network slowdowns
…Synology DS925+ 7 /10 CPU AMD Ryzen V1500B Memory 4 GB DDR4 ECC SODIMM Drive Bays 4 x HDD, 2 x NVMe Expansion 1 x USB Type C Ports 2 x 2…