I blamed my NAS for slow streaming until I realized what transcoding was actually doing
…The double-compute of transcoding is a heavy process and one of the most demanding tasks a chip can perform. If you've got a NAS with an iGPU or a dedicated…
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The Orange Pi Zero 3W beats the Raspberry Pi 5 on paper, but it can't use half its own hardware
…The GPU is idle, the video engine is idle, and Orange Pi's official image rasterizes 3D in software and decodes video on the CPU. Half of what makes the chip interesting…
WSL 3 will finally let Linux apps use your GPU and NPU without the performance tax
…those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately…
Your motherboard's fastest storage slot might not be the one you should actually use first
…those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately…
I found a tool like MSI Afterburner for Linux, and you can automate your GPU's undervolt
…Higher clocks need higher voltage to stay stable, so the curve climbs as you move right, and each point pairs a voltage with the maximum frequency the chip is rated to sustain…
I change these 5 storage settings on every new PC build, and they prevent headaches later
…share PCIe lanes with other devices, and which slots share which lanes really just depends on how your motherboard has been designed, and what chipset revision your system is on. Putting your…
I cut Apple and Google out of my smart home with a $5 ESP32, and it was easier than I expected
…But I didn’t want to rely on any hardware that depended on the cloud. I stopped using the Pi 4 as an OpenThread Border Router and repurposed it for network monitoring…
You don't need to wait for SteamOS to have a great couch PC - here's what to use instead
…those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately…
6 unsaid rules all PC gamers must obey (but don't)
…Older abandonware games and those that you access from unconventional sources store their save files only on your local drive, and not on the cloud. Backing them up using a program like…
My next CPU cooler will be an AIO liquid cooler, and the reason has nothing to do with temperatures
…Thermalright has been absolutely killing it, offering quality towers with enough heat pipes and thermal capacity to handle basically any consumer chip at stock speeds, and I've used their Peerless Assassin…