For compatibility, a NIC's physical connector size and electrical lane requirement must be smaller than or match your motherboard slot's capabilities. Meanwhile, its PCIe generation can be lower, the ...

Have you ever looked at an old, unused laptop gathering dust on a shelf and wondered if it could still serve a purpose? What if that aging device could be transformed into a cost-effective, ...

Building a Threadripper server for my home lab was a choice I didn't take lightly. It effectively replaced an entire rack stack in a cabinet, offering considerable savings on power and unlocking ...

Working towards automating a few things in a home often seems simple on the surface, but it’s easy for these projects to snowball into dozens of sensors and various servos, switches, and cameras ...

Ryzen 5 3600 CPU (could wait for Zen 3 but I don't think I'm CPU bound in this workload and this is substantially cheaper than the launch price for the 5600) cheapo fanless GPU (I expect to run this ...

Would you pay $3,600 a year just to store your files? That’s the price Google quoted for 20TB of cloud storage, an eye-watering sum that forces you to question the value of convenience. For many, the ...