My entire home lab cost less than a new GPU, and it does more for me too
Ty Sherback May 28, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer…
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Intel's New Arc Pro GPUs show what the consumer cards should have been
…The "Big Battlemage" cards offer large bandwidth and VRAM For creators and AI developers The new Arc Pro B70 is a workstation card, and a serious contender against Nvidia's RTX Pro…
Your old PC doesn't need a new motherboard, just a $15 adapter and a faster drive
…Avoid these 5 costly mistakes to ensure performance, longevity, and value for money. The technology behind the adapter Achieve modern storage speeds without the associated cost It's hard to believe that…
Denuvo is finally dead, and the industry's response could be far worse than piracy
…become common, owing to high performance costs initially. Slowly but surely, though, the industry quietly came to accept Denuvo as a necessary evil despite performance concerns and community backlash. Sure, cracks did…
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Don't wait for Nvidia GPU prices to drop — this might actually be the best time to buy
…the cost of a flagship Nvidia card increasing by more than double, and segmentation causing wide rifts in price and performance between the high-end cards and the mid-tier. And not…
I stopped recommending the 3GB Raspberry Pi 4, and here's why
…Meanwhile, the 1GB Pi 5 costs $45, and the 2GB one costs $65. Figuring out the pricing matrix purely on memory segmentation is a headache. The company cites the relentless AI bubble…
I didn't expect delaying Windows and Nvidia updates to be the best strategy for 2026, but here we are
…Sadly, that hotfix didn't do much of anything, instead causing more problems by costing overclocked GPUs for both RTX 40- and 50-series users up to 16% of their performance. Entire…
Intel's gaming handhelds went from a punchline to rivaling AMD, and the chip is only half the reason
…After launch, Intel kept shipping driver and software updates for the Claw 8 AI+, and over time, performance got better and better. If you bought your handheld sometime in the summer, it…
I stopped chasing Ultra and my mid-range GPU became a powerhouse
Jasmine Mannan May 19, 2026, 7:00 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…
Self-hosted AI may not be for everyone, but I'm done paying for ChatGPT and other cloud models
…Paperless-ngx, Paperless AI, and Paperless-GPT trio , which helps manage my documents. When I upload new files to Paperless-ngx, Paperless-GPT uses the embedding models to perform OCR scans on…