Blame your DDR5 RAM if your new PC boots slower than your old one
…If you're in the same boat on your new DDR5 system, wondering why it's booting slower than your older DDR4 build, you're not alone. During POST, the motherboard and…
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I bought the RX 9070 XT for FSR 4, but the games I actually play don't support it
…If you're like me, and the titles you frequent are older or Vulkan-specific, you'll spend a lot of evenings on FSR 3.1 or older anyway. I definitely don…
FSR 4.1 will be the best thing to happen to handheld PCs this year, and the timing couldn't be more perfect
…Related AMD is giving older Radeon cards an unexpected upgrade, but it's a bigger deal than it appears Older Radeon GPUs are about to get a lot better, but that's…
AM4 might still be supported when AM6 launches, but that doesn’t mean you should buy into the platform now
…Launched in 2016, it survived longer than anyone reasonably expected, spanning multiple CPU generations and delivering genuine value to builders and (especially) upgraders alik e. AMD kept feeding it new chips well…
I connected my dumb appliances to Home Assistant, and it felt like upgrading my whole house
…Plugging a 10-year-old washing machine into a heavy-duty local smart plug and running a few lines of code in Home Assistant allows you to seamlessly predict cycle completion times…
I upgraded to a fast SSD and my system was still slow — here's what I missed
…Sign in to your XDA account Looking at the specs alone, my SSD upgrade seemed like a solid upgrade. I did an upgrade to an SSD that promised to give fast read…
Claude Opus 4.7 was just released last month, and 4.8 is already here with some massive improvements
…Sign in to your XDA account Summary Anthropic just launched Claude Opus 4.8, upgrading 4.7 barely a month after its release. Big gains: ~5 pts in agentic coding and ~8…
Nvidia's RTX HDR does more for my old games than DLSS ever will
…The older I get, the more I appreciate PC gaming features that help me preserve experiences, instead of simply brute-forcing new ones. I love raw performance upgrades as much as the…
I wish I realized my RAM wasn't running at full speed earlier
…It took me weeks to realize my RAM had been running at JEDEC speeds since the upgrade. I mean, when your PC boots normally, games run fine, and nothing really feels sluggish…
The stock cooler on your Ryzen is probably good enough, and the upgrade isn't worth it
…Related AMD Ryzen CPUs based on Zen 4 and older can now be "jailbroken" If you have an older AMD Ryzen CPU, you can possibly play around with it thanks to a…