Nvidia promised ray tracing would change gaming forever, but upscaling became the real revolution
…Related With DLSS, XeSS, and FSR, I'm secretly optimistic for the future of PC gaming From awful to shaping the future
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Intel's gaming handhelds went from a punchline to rivaling AMD, and the chip is only half the reason
…The Arc G3 Extreme, the top of Intel's first processor family designed specifically for handheld gaming PCs, sits inside the Acer Predator Atlas 8, and Intel's own numbers put it…
Forza Horizon 6 made me stop doubting DLSS 4.5, and the proof is hard to ignore
…for all PC Game Pass subscribers, and Nvidia could not be better prepared for it. Ahead of the release, Team Green released its Game Ready Driver , and the optimization work behind it…
Linux is finally ready for gamers, but gamers are still not ready for Linux
…Since then, hardware manufacturers and game developers have focused on Windows, creating a walled garden that continues to push Linux out of the PC gaming conversation. Even now, the progress we see…
My budget motherboard has hit its ceiling, so I'm spending more next time
…made as a PC enthusiast was assuming that my future needs would look exactly like my current ones. When you're building a system, it's easy to optimize for the games…
I run my entire Obsidian vault from my phone with Claude — and it does what Obsidian Sync can't
…Each device keeps its own local copy of the vault and Sync just pushes changes between those copies with end-to-end encryption and proper conflict resolution, which the free workarounds can…
I expected to bounce off Obsidian like every other note app, and a year later it's running my entire life
…my PC, so I dropped those into the vault and Obsidian picked them right up. Since all the note data is stored as simple Markdown files, I use rsync to push them…
I automated my lights first, but energy tracking is what actually saved me money
…the route of serious optimization. Gone were the rack servers, and now the single Threadripper server was going to join them. Three compact low-power business PCs took their place. This wouldn…
I turned off HAGS and gained back a gigabyte of VRAM with almost no FPS loss
…Ever since it arrived with Windows 10, HAGS has been regarded as an optimization miracle by some, and an unnecessary complication by others. You'll find benchmarks praising its latency improvements, all…
Pointing your router antennas straight up is quietly killing your Wi-Fi
Ty Sherback Apr 24, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer…