computing articles published February 2, 2026
February 2 articles
- Can you break a GPU world record with a broken graphics card? This YouTuber did exactly that with a damaged Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti
- The perfect DOS gaming PC isn't an old 486: It's a Raspberry Pi
- Need to Update Your Wi-Fi Router Settings? Here's What to Do
- 4 Cheap Computer Monitors That Punch Above Their Price Bracket
- Hate your Windows 11 UI? Try a MacOS or Linux-like shell: My 3 picks
- Modders Resurrect Half-Dead RTX 5070 Ti, Break Benchmark Record
- Visual Studio Code is eating up hundreds of gigabytes on Linux
- Again? Memory Crunch Forces Raspberry Pi to Raise Prices for a Second Time
- 100 left in stock: $200 MacBook Airs
- Your Wi-Fi 'extender' is actually cutting your speed in half
- I always use Excel to create heat maps: Here's how you can too
- Fake Samsung 990 Pro passes basic checks but runs slower than a USB 2.0 drive — counterfeit SSDs proliferate as NAND shortage creates the perfect storm for bogus deals
- Intel mandates at least 7,467 MT/s RAM speed for Panther Lake — Slower memory will relabel the Arc B370 & B390 iGPUs as generic "Intel Graphics" in Task Manager
- 5 Reasons You Should Avoid Buying An OLED Monitor
- These 5 homelab mistakes almost ruined my self-hosting dreams
- Get a mini PC with a 12-core Intel chip for under $400
- Binning results from 13 Ryzen 7 9850X3Ds prove that the CPU is purely an overclocked 9800X3D from the factory — 9850X3D looks similar to 9800X3D, just with higher voltages
- Raspberry Pi boards are getting another price hike, thanks to RAM costs
- Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 9 290K Plus appears on Geekbench with chart-topping scores — Arrow Lake refresh beats the 285K by ~10% across single- and multithreaded tests
- Why You Shouldn't Buy a MacBook Pro Right Now
- Get a powerful TP-Link Deco WiFi 7 mesh router for just $89 during Amazon’s flash clearance sale
- New leak claims Intel Panther Lake laptops could cost up to $2,400 — and my wallet is already crying
- Why Microsoft Access is dying (and what is replacing it)
- I don't normally recommend installing Windows 11's optional updates – but in the case of this bug, I'd make an exception
- Windows 11 adoption just soared — but is the momentum here to stay?
- AMD adopts FRED together with Intel for Zen 6 architecture — replacement for decades-old IDT can improve performance and stability
- Raspberry Pi 5 price increases drastically as AI shortage bites, 16GB version now $205 — second price increase in three months, over 70% more expensive than original MSRP
- How immutable Linux can stop you from breaking your system
- You'll Never Guess What Samsung's New First-Of-Its-Kind Display Is Made From
- One of our favourite Intel chips tops the Puget Systems 'most reliable hardware' list this year, and Nvidia's Founders Edition GPUs get to take a bow, too
- I ditched my NAS OS for Ubuntu Desktop, and I’m never going back
- Don’t buy a MacBook Pro right now! A huge new report says M5 Pro and M5 Max are launching tomorrow
- It looks like a microSD card, but it's actually a 2TB NVMe SSD
- 'We Need to Improve.' Microsoft Admits Windows 11 Has Too Many Annoying Bugs
- Fed up with Ubuntu? Why Debian should be your daily driver
- MAINGEAR Retro98 PC tower is a blast from the past with RTX 5000 series power
- 3 Linux features that make my daily work faster than Windows 11
- The most cursed-looking graphics card I've ever seen just set a benchmarking world record
- Why your favorite paid software wouldn't exist without open source
- Watch out, Intel: Nvidia finally confirms next-gen N1X and N1 chips for AI PCs are coming
- Turn off these 3 annoying Ubuntu defaults in 5 minutes
- Smart ways to help your PC survive through the PC component pricing apocalypse — check temps, replace old AIOs and PSUs, keep an eye on your boot drive's TBW, and more
- These historic computing labs teach kids what technology was like before phones, social media, and the cloud
- This isn't a smart lamp — it's a Wi-Fi 7 mesh router, and my wife likes it so much that she doesn't let me use any other router now
- I struggled with Hyprland for months, until this Arch-based distro fixed it
- A MacOS 26 bug bricked my $3,700 Mac Studio - here's how I miraculously got it back
- Xiaomi's Dark Robot Factory Can Make A Phone Every Second Without People - Here's How
