I ignored these PC components for years — and it cost me way more than I thought
…GIGABYTE B850 AORUS Elite Memory Slots 4 Memory Type DDR5 Form Factor ATX Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 7 Socket AM5 $255 at Amazon Related 4 ways your motherboard can ruin your PC…
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Your last backup completing successfully doesn't mean your data is actually recoverable
Ayush Pande Mar 25, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
I ran Gemma 4 (26B) on a 10-year-old-GPU, and it's reliable enough to replace the cloud
Ayush Pande May 10, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
4 wireless Android Auto misconceptions I wish I'd debunked sooner
…Automotive from the factory. However, there's a burgeoning market of aftermarket dongles and adapters that readily turns any wired AA system wireless. I've used the former in my car for…
Ethernet will tolerate your mistakes, but fiber optic cabling absolutely won't
…So it's usually best to pick up pre-terminated fiber cabling with Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) connectors. That's precisely what I did for my home lab and network deployment…
These storage myths from decades ago are no longer relevant in 2026
…Still, even for power users and homelabbers, RPM isn't the defining factor that other people might think it is. Related I use both SSDs and HDDs in my home lab – and…
Intel's gaming handhelds went from a punchline to rivaling AMD, and the chip is only half the reason
…The Arc G3 and G3 Extreme are the first ones Intel built for the form factor from the start. They're based on the Panther Lake architecture on Intel's new 18A…
Intel's Panther Lake looks great, but it's not the upgrade desktop owners were hoping for
…This amount of performance and efficiency hasn't been made available in a socketable form factor yet, and that's a shame. Related I compared AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D to Intel…
I tried a new 8B local LLM, and its design might be the biggest shift since DeepSeek R1
…Plus, because CCA compresses parameters, cache, and FLOPs together by the same factor, the user can dial the compression toward either memory or compute, depending on what their hardware is short on…
This GPU driver setting cut my frametime variance in half, and competitive FPS games feel completely different now
…The number that actually determines whether a game feels smooth or not is frametime, or more specifically, how consistently your hardware is delivering frames. I've already written an article on Smooth…