AMD just gave the Ryzen 7 5800X3D an upgrade, and Noctua will sell it for other AM4 CPUs
…has since made the transition to the consumer space, allowing AMD to include it with one of its older CPUs. What's the deal with the Ice Pad? And is it worth…
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Nvidia's RTX Spark is already here under a different name, and I ran Cyberpunk at 1440p on it
…RTX Spark drops that for Wi-Fi 7 and 10Gb Ethernet, which makes far more sense on a consumer machine. At the flagship tier, the core hardware is unchanged. On the GB10…
My Home Assistant dashboard got better when I stopped trying to put everything on one screen
Rich Edmonds Mar 26, 2026, 8:00 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…
Your NAS doesn't need to be all-SSD, and TrueNAS proved it to me
Dhruv Bhutani Apr 13, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the personal technology landscape through features and opinion pieces…
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My $15 Raspberry Pi hosts my password manager and gets rid of expensive subscriptions
…self-hosted tool to your home server ecosystem, resource consumption is a major factor. Tools like Paperless-ngx or NextCloud require powerful hardware to deliver the best experience across multiple devices with…
Plex’s $750 Plex Pass Lifetime price hike finally convinced me to switch to Jellyfin
Dhruv Bhutani May 31, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the personal technology landscape through features and opinion pieces…
I almost threw away my old laptop and now It’s my most reliable Home Assistant server
…At that stage, I had already mentally classified it as trash hardware, not even a backup laptop, just useless. I remember sitting there thinking I should finally clear my space, throw it…
6 reasons I'm buying HDDs, not SSDs
…If I was using a custom-built NAS running on PC hardware or server hardware, I could consider using U.2 SSDs which do go up to 120TB of capacity or so…
I stopped treating my old 250GB SATA SSD as e-waste, and now I can't live without it
…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…
My Raspberry Pi NAS taught me that cheap storage isn't worth the compromise
…A Raspberry Pi doesn't give you the neat internal drive bays, backplanes, or native SATA options that make dedicated NAS hardware feel tidy and intentional. You're usually dealing with USB…