Jasmine Mannan Apr 17, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
…for my hardware. So I cut the GPU offload to 32 and dropped context to 4K, which got the estimate to around 7.3 GB. Still failed. I updated LM Studio at…
…Related 5 outdated computer hardware items I’m glad I no longer use Life is better without these old hardware components from a different era. It was an appealing enough proposition that…
…This meant that no matter how many times I updated or moved the container, my automations, dashboards, and integrations remained untouched. If my server hardware ever dies, I can grab that one…
…of the longest-running pieces of consumer PC hardware still in active use. The card-edge connector you'd find on a brand-new RTX 5090 is mechanically and electrically compatible with…
…All specs that dwarf the hardware inside a brand new Echo Show or Google Nest Hub. Dedicated smart displays are budget tablets in speakers' clothing. Your old phone is a high-performance…
…Using it as an endpoint node — reading sensors, flipping switches, or toggling relays — is a misuse of the hardware. For that, you need something that boots quickly, runs reliably, and updates itself…
Rich Edmonds May 28, 2026, 3:30 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…
…A brand-new machine can still be running behind on patches, which means it's carrying around known holes that have already been mapped out. So I opened Windows Update and let…
…Reinstalling, clean installing, and updating Windows is a big part of my workflow, and Microsoft’s idea of Windows updates isn’t the best . Whenever a new update rolls out, it forces…