Don't let your old NVMe gather dust: It's the fastest USB stick you own
…Sign in to your XDA account When I upgraded to Gen 5 SSDs, I let my old PCIe 3.0 NVMe drives sit around for quite a while because I didn't…
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I thought I needed a mesh Wi-Fi setup, but a single router solved all my problems
…Sometimes you just have a bad router , and you can get a better experience with a single-router upgrade. That's what I ended up doing, and with some extra perks in…
I rebuilt my home server after 3 years, and these mistakes nearly cost me everything
…In fact, I still remember some of the fatal mistakes I made when I switched to my current Xeon workstation after using my old Ryzen build for almost three years. While I…
Better audio and a decent chair do more for gaming than 100 extra FPS
…However, this upgrade is often overlooked by many gamers and PC enthusiasts alike. If you've been sitting in the same chair for over a decade, or you're using an old…
Home Assistant's best upgrade costs nothing, but it changes everything
…Got an old microphone? Pair it with some add-ons, and you’ve got a voice-controlled setup for managing your smart home. Me? My biggest addition to Home Assistant wasn’t…
FSR 4.1 made older Radeon cards interesting again, but not for the reason AMD wants
…upgrades, and sure enough, for a while, it did. At least until the August 2025 source code leak revealed that an INT8 implementation of the latest upscaler already existed for older Radeon…
AMD's FSR is helping my 7-year-old Nvidia GPU crush Forza Horizon 6
…Upscaling keeps older GPUs relevant; you don't need a $1,000 upgrade to enjoy modern AAA games. When the first gameplay trailer for Forza Horizon 6 came out, it got the…
I ran the same SSD for five years, and here's what actually killed performance
…Save yourself some cash Old doesn't mean bad Your five-year-old SSD isn't obsolete and doesn't need an upgrade just because it's slowing down. It's probably…
Your Proxmox 8 server stops getting security updates in August, and upgrading to PVE 9 isn't straightforward
…sad news is that the old Proxmox 8.x versions will hit their end-of-life stage later this August. As such, you’ll have to upgrade to PVE 9.0 sooner…
My RTX 4090 proved that chasing 4K gaming was the wrong goal all along
…Sign in to your XDA account One of the main reasons I upgraded to the RTX 4090 a few years ago was to finally experience native 4K gaming. When I had the…