…the route of serious optimization. Gone were the rack servers, and now the single Threadripper server was going to join them. Three compact low-power business PCs took their place. This wouldn…
…Ever since it arrived with Windows 10, HAGS has been regarded as an optimization miracle by some, and an unnecessary complication by others. You'll find benchmarks praising its latency improvements, all…
Ty Sherback Apr 22, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer…
…Valve's Steam Machine push could make Windows background infrastructure—Steam becomes the defining layer. On paper, Microsoft still owns PC gaming. The latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey revealed as much, with…
Ty Sherback Apr 24, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer…
…the graphics APIs that powered an entire decade of PC gaming. In fact, even some seemingly mundane additions such as native SSD optimization and improved multicore scheduling, all quietly became standard expectations…
…Every new GPU pushes the boundaries just a little further, thus pulling the bar of relevance away from older cards already installed in millions of PCs. Today, however, the landscape is much…
…I’d stack services on it, push it into roles better suited to bigger hardware, and then wonder why the experience felt just a little annoying all the time. The Raspberry Pi…
…A decent GPU has typically been a minimum requirement, or at least a mini PC like a Mac Studio, Mac Mini, or one of those 128GB DGX-adjacent workstations . What it didn…
…The new model introduces a redesigned dual extrusion system alongside deeper automation features, continuing the company’s push to simplify high-end 3D printing. At a glance, the X2D looks like a…