My 3D printer pays for itself every time I skip buying a PC accessory
…When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include…
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I 3D printed 8 desk accessories, but these are the ones I actually kept
…With an academic background in design and manufacturing, his insatiable curiosity spans beyond the digital domain. Chandraveer's downtime is an eclectic mix of reading fiction, practicing calligraphy, conceptualizing new products, and…
I ditched my expensive CPU cooler, and my gaming PC got quieter instead
…that motherboards still ship with some seriously aggressive fan curves in firmware . Without meddling with these settings, your case and CPU fans will all ramp up suddenly when opening a new browser…
Repurposing an old PC as a NAS seemed smart until I checked the power bill
…But even if you spend $700 on a new NAS, there's a good chance the CPU and RAM inside the chassis aren't as capable as those of an old system…
These 4 Pixel widgets earn their space on my home screen by cutting friction every day
…With an academic background in design and manufacturing, his insatiable curiosity spans beyond the digital domain. Chandraveer's downtime is an eclectic mix of reading fiction, practicing calligraphy, conceptualizing new products, and…
Modern Standby is draining your Windows 11 laptop battery, and Microsoft won't fix it
…Then, with Lunar Lake later that year, the company introduced another completely new chip design with Lunar Lake that ditched LP E-Cores but focused massively on power efficiency, with very evident…
Framework proved repairable laptops can work, but almost nobody is willing to buy one
…high-performance CPUs and GPUs, premium designs, and interesting form factors. All of its laptops feature not only modular memory and storage, but also upgradable motherboards, displays, batteries, speakers, ports, and more…
The only PC components I never regret spending extra on
…You may not need the additional cooling performance right now, but when you switch to a new CPU or a new PC entirely, a high-quality cooler won't need replacing. You…
CAMM2 is replacing the RAM stick as we know it, and your next laptop will prove it
…To overcome the challenges of these extreme frequencies , the current RAM slots need to be replaced with something new. The CAMM2 standard has been formally confirmed by JEDEC, and is being designed…
Most home servers are wildly overbuilt, and the N100 proved it to me
…I looked at Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 chips, priced out motherboards with more PCIe lanes than I needed, and convinced myself that “headroom” was the same thing as a plan. It…