I ditched my expensive CPU cooler, and my gaming PC got quieter instead
Rich Edmonds Apr 10, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
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Sunshine and Moonlight let me build my own game streaming service for the cost of one GPU
Rich Edmonds Apr 19, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
These 5 long-dead PC brands shaped modern computing but nobody remembers why they disappeared
…Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path. Besides being the first…
Your old SSD is too small for games, but perfect for things your main drive shouldn't do
…An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building…
I moved my Raspberry Pi projects to $5 ESP32 boards, and nothing broke
…But over time, the performance issues persisted, and I migrated Home Assistant's duties to my mini PC. As I got familiar with the ESP32 microcontrollers , building devices became fun. Yet I…
I upgraded to an RTX 4090 and only got half the performance boost I expected
…Sign in to your XDA account As PC gamers, many of us have gone down the path of upgrading one or two parts of our PC while leaving the rest untouched, hoping…
Your next "Raspberry Pi project" doesn't actually need a Raspberry Pi
…to build a bunch of conventional Raspberry Pi projects, while sipping a fraction of the energy and costing well under $10 for a couple of boards. Typical x86 mini-PCs and SBCs…
I ditched PC Manager for Fluent Cleaner after it found more junk to remove
…I test a lot of apps on my main Windows PC and a few virtual machines, and the files gradually build up. Removing apps still leaves a lot of items, and Fluent…
AMD just extended AM5 until 2029, but their real masterpiece is still AM4
…Long-term support in this market is valuable because it is rare, especially now when the economics of building a modern PC have changed so dramatically. AMD extending AM5 until 2029 is…
Liquid metal works great as thermal paste, but the hidden costs aren't worth it
…Sign in to your XDA account Thermal interface materials seldom get a mention in the PC building discourse , but it's an essential catalyst for effective CPU and GPU cooling . Selecting the…