Your old router is the secret to a stable smart home
…While most people see an old router as e-waste, it's actually the secret to a stable, secure, and high-performance smart home. A smart home shouldn't fight for bandwidth…
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Your GPU, RAM, and SSD all have firmware you've never updated, and it can actually matter
…issues too, prompting Samsung to issue updates for affected drives. Then there's RAM, which is the newest member of the updatable firmware club. DDR5 modules introduced on-DIMM components that older…
Don't waste your PC upgrade budget until you've fixed these 3 things first
…More often than not, the performance issues you face aren't a direct result of aging hardware, but how well your PC is balanced and set up. For instance, there's no…
Your motherboard's M.2 heatsink is probably making your SSD temps worse
…Many people ignore this fact, and then wonder why their drive doesn't perform as advertised. While older SSDs didn't need heatsinks, newer models, especially high-performing ones, often require one…
The Alienware 15 cuts the fluff and doubles down on what actually matters — performance and price
…Related The new Alienware 34 QD-OLED showed me why an ultrawide is just better The new 34 QD-OLED is a legend reborn from Alienware. Dell also reveals the 14S and…
IPS monitors promise no burn-in, but they're hiding bigger problems that you can't ignore anymore
…OLED panels Your eyes can track the difference Another knock on IPS monitors, despite their excellent gaming performance, is the inferior response time when pitted against OLED displays. The "1ms" response time…
Free NAS distros beat Synology's price, and the performance gap doesn't justify the markup
…No matter how fancy DSM looks and how well it performs, it can't improve CPU performance, expand RAM capacity, or handle workload types. The company is slowly moving to 2.5…
I bought an RX 9070 XT instead of an RTX 5070 Ti, and I can't find a single reason to regret it
…The driver issues, albeit very annoying, aren't a total deal-breaker, and the lack of ray tracing performance just doesn't affect me. I rarely turn on RT, and if I…
These 4 PC maintenance tasks cost $0, but improve your performance drastically
…Together, these benchmarks surface issues such as thermal throttling and suboptimal performance. Inferring from this data, it makes it easy to diagnose issues like a misconfigured fan profile, a malfunctioning cooling system…
I wish I realized my RAM wasn't running at full speed earlier
…Sign in to your XDA account Enabling XMP/EXPO is one of the first things I always do after building a PC, mostly because I know I'll be leaving performance on…