The stock cooler on your Ryzen is probably good enough, and the upgrade isn't worth it
…Related AMD Ryzen CPUs based on Zen 4 and older can now be "jailbroken" If you have an older AMD Ryzen CPU, you can possibly play around with it thanks to a…
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These PC building "best practices" are costing you money and doing nothing for your rig
…The power supply is one of the most critical components of any build, due to which PC builders rightly prioritize high-quality models. Quality, however, doesn't come from the wattage alone…
Single-maintainer open source is a ticking time bomb, and Booklore just detonated
…ACX attempted to downplay the extent of it when concerned community members inquired about the quality of the newly introduced code. With ACX's credibility now called into question, every other grievance…
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
…The old days of installing multilib packages, configuring ia32-libs, or fighting with 32-bit dependencies on your 64-bit distro thankfully over. This might sound like a small quality-of-life…
Ollama is still the easiest way to start local LLMs, but it's the worst way to keep running them
…The nullmirror team documented their switch from Ollama to llama.cpp and found consistent throughput improvements across every model they tested, with no quality tradeoff. Their conclusion was put pretty bluntly, as…
Your cheap USB-C cables will fail with USB4
…Sign in to your XDA account There's sometimes a negative connotation that anything cheap must be of bad quality, but that couldn't be further from the truth. More affordable mechanical…
I replaced Adobe, Figma, and Canva with one free tool, and I'm not paying for design software again
…The deal was ultimately abandoned in December 2023 after regulators in the EU and UK raised serious antitrust concerns. The company was actually Adobe. It announced a staggering ~$20 billion deal to…
Wi-Fi 7 will not fix what's actually wrong with your home network
…A high-quality Cat 5e cable could support 2.5 Gbps and even 10 Gbps, but over much shorter distances. For supporting Wi-Fi 7 speeds, i.e., 10 Gbps, you'll…
Bambu Lab wants to lock you into their ecosystem, but here's how I took back control
…It prints quickly, handles multicolor jobs well, and removes much of the old tinkering tax from desktop 3D printing. That convenience is real, but it also makes the walls around the ecosystem…
No, vertically mounting your GPU does not destroy performance — here's what actually happens
…By and large, modern GPUs are engineered with far more thermal headroom and flexibility than older designs, and they are built with both configurations in mind, as long as you ensure a…