Your motherboard's smallest PCIe slot can do much more than you think
…Sign in to your XDA account Most people know PCIe as the slot used to install their graphics card, and nothing more. It's the long horizontal receptacle located beneath the CPU…
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Your TV's Ethernet port might be slower than its Wi-Fi connection, but it actually doesn't matter
…Besides, streaming services are moving to use more bandwidth-efficient codecs like HEVC and AV1 instead of increasing bitrates. So it's unlikely the base bandwidth requirement for 4K streaming will go…
Your router is about to stop getting security updates - here's what to do
…Sign in to your XDA account Routers are one of the few pieces of tech most people buy once and then stop thinking about entirely. If the wireless connectivity works, the streaming…
Your PCIe expansion card might be running at half speed, and your motherboard probably didn't warn you
…your XDA account PCIe expansion cards are some of the most powerful, not to mention affordable, upgrades you can make to a PC. The PCIe bus offers a high-bandwidth connection to…
Someone moved three lines of code in Linux 7.2 and got a 5% storage speed boost
…Sign in to your XDA account Summary Linux 7.2 gains ~5% IOPS on ext4/xfs from a tiny code change. Skipping an unnecessary iomap memset after iteration freed write bandwidth. Moving…
Your Wi-Fi 7 router is probably in the worst spot in your home, and it's costing you hundreds in wasted speeds
…This is Wi-Fi 7's marquee feature , allowing a device to connect to both the 5GHz and 6GHz bands simultaneously to aggregate bandwidth or switch instantly if one band experiences a…
Every month Windows gets an emergency patch, and I'm running out of reasons to stay
…The March 2026 security update broke the Microsoft account sign-in for multiple Microsoft apps like Teams, 365, and more. Microsoft released an out-of-band update (emergency patch) to restore the…
This wild PS2 handheld has a buzz saw-like disc drive — and somehow it works
…your XDA account Summary Someone built a PS2 handheld with an exposed spinning disc and a MadCatz controller, all duct-taped together. The monstrosity features a 10,000mAh power bank, offering five…
Google's Gemini Omni can generate "anything from any input," including video
…Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. Sign in to your XDA account Summary Gemini Omni creates and edits high-quality videos from images, audio, video, and text. Omni…
I thought a 10GbE home networking upgrade was overkill, but it's the best upgrade I ever made
…My PC is a bandwidth hog I thought I was doing the right thing by using Wi-Fi 6E on my PC, which would utilize the 6 GHz band from my Eero…