Plex Pass is expensive, but it's the only streaming app my family actually uses
…Sign in to your XDA account The impending tripling of Plex's Lifetime Plex Pass cost to $750 is a big change. I've been using Plex for a long time , and…
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Intel's New Arc Pro GPUs show what the consumer cards should have been
…With VRAM costs at historic highs, the cost of a high-VRAM consumer card has become increasingly difficult to justify, even more so for a division with a little over 1% of…
Your motherboard has a 1GbE port, and adding a $15 2.5GbE PCIe card changes everything about your network
…the lowest-cost upgrade with the greatest tangible impact for the majority of power users. If you're upgrading your router, considering swapping to Cat6 cabling, and just generally concerned about your…
The Linux desktop's biggest upgrade was learning when not to ask the user
…The counterargument is that Linux should stay explicit Power users still need clear and reachable controls There’s a fair concern that excessive automation can obscure useful information. Linux earned much of…
I ditched my expensive CPU cooler, and my gaming PC got quieter instead
…Before, thermal throttling would be a cause for concern, and it still should be to a degree, but modern chips work slightly differently in that Intel and AMD both design their processors…
The stock cooler on your Ryzen is probably good enough, and the upgrade isn't worth it
…This discontinuation of including coolers in boxed units isn't due to the effectiveness of the coolers on AMD's newer CPUs, and was done almost certainly as a cost-cutting measure…
Stop upgrading your CPU for media server transcoding; a used GPU does it better
…A full upgrade server was unreasonable given the costs of new components. Then I started researching whether a cheap used GPU could solve my problem without spending too much on new hardware…
The 5800X3D is the 1080 Ti of CPUs, but I wouldn't buy one today
…And with AM5 supporting PCIe 5.0, bandwidth saturation is far less likely to be a concern down the line. So, if that eventually becomes a problem for your build, the money…
The best GPU I ever used wasn't the most expensive one
…1660 Ti essentially cost me only around $150. Having 6GB of VRAM on it was a bonus, but I didn't know it at the time. VRAM concerns hadn't become a…
DisplayPort is everywhere except TVs, and it's quietly limiting PC gamers
…The primary concern is the GPU, as it has limited HDMI connectivity. Many GPUs come with multiple ports, and most of these are reserved for the DisplayPort interface, with one (at best…