I turned off HAGS and gained back a gigabyte of VRAM with almost no FPS loss
…Related 6 GPUs that are officially too old in 2025 These GPUs can no longer bring it in modern titles Here's what HAGS actually does A lot of folks swear by…
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Used enterprise workstations are the home lab upgrade everyone overlooks
…Idle power consumption is also typically worse than a modern efficiency-focused build, which matters if you're running the machine 24/7 on residential electricity rates. Related I bought used enterprise…
Nvidia's best GPU feature is hiding in VLC's settings, and you're probably missing it
…AI video upscaling is one of the best modern GPU features Sadly, VLC can leave that extra feature sitting unused RTX Video Super Resolution is a genuinely great feature to have and…
FSR 4.1 just made AMD's last-gen flagship a smarter buy than its current one
…Be that as it may, finally unlocking modern FSR image quality on existing Radeon hardware is definitely the kind of longevity that AMD really should have offered from the beginning, à-la…
I stopped throwing out old hardware after discovering Proxmox
…Heck, if you’ve got a gaming system that’s almost a decade old, you can even help it run a bunch of modern titles by getting rid of Windows and choosing…
BIOS chip capacities are changing, and its going to affect how long your PC lasts
…a flash memory chip responsible for initializing your hardware every time you press the power button. Modern motherboards have been using UEFI firmware , which is the de facto evolution to the BIOS…
Powerline Ethernet is ugly, imperfect, and sometimes exactly what your house needs
…There are some physical bottlenecks that can dictate whether or not powerline will succeed or fail in your home. Modern homes split the electrical supply into two 120V phases within the main…
Over 40% of Steam gamers are still using RTX 30 and 40 GPUs, and DLSS is a big reason why
…Software updates let mainstream gamers skip frequent GPU upgrades; hardware gains now mainly AI cores. For the better part of two decades, the PC gaming upgrade cycle had been rather easy to…
Android Auto won't give me an equalizer, so I use this free app instead
…Poweramp Equalizer saves the day The best money I've ever spent on an app I eventually paid a one-time fee for the Poweramp Pro version, and I have never been…
I stopped forcing every coding job through Claude and started using this instead
…Aider Aider is an open-source AI-powered coding agent. See at Github Related I switched from Claude Code to Codex for a week, and the trade-offs surprised me One week…