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A curved OLED monitor next to a gaming PC on a desk
Over half of PC gamers are still on 1080p in 2026, and the reason isn't the monitors

The Steam Hardware Survey continues to report the death of PC gaming

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An image of an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU installed on a motherboard.
AMD promised AM5 support until 2029, and the memory crisis might not let it stop there
AMD

AM5 is now the past, present, and apparently, the future for consumer PCs

Nvidia App smooth motion settings and Lossless Scaling's Steam Store page open on a dual-monitor setup.
I'm never paying $7 for Lossless Scaling, because the Nvidia App offers its best feature for free

Nothing quite like a more frames for no added costs

A white router next to a mini UPS on a grey surface
Your 500 Mbps internet can feel worse than 100 Mbps, and the reason is not what you think

Bufferbloat can make even the fastest Wi-Fi plans feel sluggish

An image showing a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and Radeon 7700XT GPUs kept on a table next to a split keyboard.
Nvidia's DLSS 5 pitch just made my next GPU decision for me, and it isn't GeForce

AMD just earned another buyer, and all it had to do was sit and watch

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TP-Link's Archer BE9300 sitting on a shelf
You can finally upgrade to Wi-Fi 7 without the premium price tag

The 40% discount is steep

Laptop screen showing Pangolin's public resources dashboard with homelab services listed as healthy
I stopped exposing half my self-hosted services to the internet, and nothing broke

Two doors, one rule: Justify yourself.

Speedtest free VPN with 2GB of data
Here's how your ISP and the entire internet know that you're using a VPN

A VPN might help protect your privacy, but everyone knows you're using one.

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Lenovo USB-C Dual Display Travel Dock on desk plugged into monitors and laptop
This Lenovo USB-C Travel Dock makes working on the go easy

Elevate your laptop's connectivity

AMD Threadripper BIOS
Your gaming rig's biggest bottleneck might be a BIOS setting you never touched
RAM

Make your gaming PC go faster with this easy setting.

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DDR5 SODIMMs in a UDIMM adapter inside of a PC
RAM lasts a decade but servers don't, so Meta built a chip to keep DDR4 alive in DDR5 machines
RAM

It's the upgrade you can't buy, but honestly, you don't want this anyway.

An Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti GPU with red Lian Li Strimer lighting inside an NZXT H9 Flow case.
4K gaming isn't elusive anymore, provided you stop chasing the wrong targets
GPU

Stop chasing native 4K and high-end GPUs

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Samsung's Odyssey G5 with a 180Hz refresh rate proves you don't need to spend big on a gaming monitor

Uncover why this gaming monitor stands out

A Wi-Fi router standing on a black surface with some colorful objects around it
Your router's placement matters less than the airtime setting that almost nobody touches

Prevent your legacy devices from making your Wi-Fi sluggish for everything else

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Soundbar on PC desk with Forza Horizon 6 in the background.
Your soundbar's HDMI port is lying to you, and PC gamers need to know why

HDMI ARC isn't what you think it is

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samsung 990 box wide
PCIe 5.0 SSDs are overkill, and manufacturers finally realized most people don't need them

Samsung's latest drive is Gen 4 with updated NAND

The waste generated by multi-color prints with the Centauri Carbon 2
Your 3D printer is throwing away more plastic than you think, and the factory profile is the culprit
DIY

Your 3D printer is throwing away more plastic than you think, and the factory profile is the culprit

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technitium dns server open on a tablet screen
My DNS server kept breaking until I added high availability and single sign-on

No hacky scripts needed, this DNS server has these things built-in

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stop putting game console behind router's DMZ
I moved my PS5 out of the router's DMZ, and a guest network fixed everything the old way couldn't

A blank check your firewall never needed.

Turning my main monitor vertical and my widescreen as secondary.
I promoted my vertical monitor and demoted my widescreen — it completely changed how I work

My widescreen is now the sidekick

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