CPUs
-
Your CPU bottleneck isn't real, and I'm tired of pretending that it is
The term “CPU bottleneck” is familiar to every gamer. I don’t think I’ve met anyone who wasn’t into games and…
-
Your CPU travels through three generations of computer history every time you turn on your PC
Computing has come a long way in the last few decades. In fact, the advancements are now so quick that…
-
6 PC-building breakthroughs that the RAM shortage put on pause
The RAM-pocalypse is bad news for our wallets, obviously. Anyone who’s had any dream or plan of upgrading their PC…
-
This $10 Xeon CPU gives 12 cores and 24 threads to your homelab
There are plenty of ways to get into homelabbing. Some of us repurpose something we already own (I built my…
-
Your SSD has a tiny computer inside, and it’s doing more than just saving files
SSDs are more than just flash memory chips soldered to a PCB. They’re still relatively simple designs, but they can’t…
-
Plex transcoding used to be the problem, now it can save you terabytes of storage
Back in the day, we did everything we could to avoid transcoding in our Plex libraries. The typical home server’s…