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Here's a write up of that TV remote working in Bazzite feature I discovered this week. In short, you'll need Bazzite's 44.20261012 update, CEC support, and an LG TV that has Universal Control or a different TV with something like UC. Read more: www.siliconinsights.org/bazzite-quie...

Finished up a piece about Bazzite's Deck 44 update from last month. My experience has been pretty great, to the point where my list of things I'd like to see fixed or implemented in Bazzite has gotten pretty short. www.siliconinsights.org/bazzite-deck...

This one is a little late coming out, but anyways here's a video version of the 8GB GPU performance testing I did a little while ago. Also, I did a very extremely minimalist style of editing for this one. Let me know if it worked out or not. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Wf...

Wow I just discovered it's really easy to edit videos if you're lazy and just have one long clip to cut up and trim. Literally got done in like an hour.

Wrote a little thing about trying out my first OLED TV that I got a few months ago and why I'm not 100% happy with the technology. Kinda wishing I went with Mini LED instead. www.siliconinsights.org/im-not-impre...

This week's massive article is about replacing your laptop with a desktop and everything you need to know before doing it. Or, if you've already done it, you can still take the advice I guess. www.siliconinsights.org/the-ultimate...

In less than four days, my CachyOS review has hit a thousand views! Really happy to see SI pick up right where it left off.

Wrote up a quick thing about DLSS 5. While I do see potential in the technology, I'm also seeing significant problems that make me suspect this new version of DLSS 5 will not be very popular. Read more: www.siliconinsights.org/who-is-dlss-...

I swear there's a good explanation for why I'm doing this.

This is the strangest thing, unplugging the Prestige 14 from the charger allows the B390 iGPU to get a couple extra watts which pushes the frequency from about 1700 MHz to 1900. I have no idea why this would be happening.

So I'm continuing to evaluate CachyOS on my Panther Lake laptop, and I've tested out docked usage and have now moved onto normal laptop stuff off the charger. The battery life estimate keeps going up. It's at 11 hours right now on a 70% charge. It's running off a USB stick. Incredible.

So this article was originally just about how cool it was the Steam Machine inspired more people to do SFF, then it turned into a big thing about how PC gaming is fundamentally changing. Hope you all enjoy! www.siliconinsights.org/how-valve-sp...

One of my first projects since rebooting SI is testing out CachyOS on my Panther Lake MSI laptop. If you've got questions about CachyOS and Panther Lake, let me know what you'd like me to explore. This is your chance to find out without doing it yourself! www.siliconinsights.org/trying-out-c...

If you're worried that you're spending too much money on RAM right now, you should see how much I spent in 2018. This kit is less than half the price today than it was almost a decade ago.

Article number one of the newly relaunched Silicon Insights and the brand-new website is now available. Give it a read. www.siliconinsights.org/relaunch/

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Studio lighting is just as bright as I remember.

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Did we say Friday? We meant Monday. Who knew planning a wedding takes so much time and energy... Anyways, today we've got a review of PNY's PRO Elite V3 external SSD, though it's really more like a supercharged thumb drive. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeuY...

So we hit 600 subscribers today! Very cool. Also, new video out on Friday.

Someone sent in this weird SSD that may or may not be Microsoft's Z1000, exclusive to their datacenters. We took a good look at this mystery drive to see what exactly it is. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cGM...

We're back from hiatus. Turns out doing two videos a week is a really good way to cause burnout! We're back to doing one high quality video a week. Anyways, today's video covers a potential issue in our SSD benchmarking methodology. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyUj...

We reviewed PNY's brand-new CS2150 SSD, the first PCIe 5.0 drive to start at $100 and offer a 2TB model for $185. Equipped with Phison's latest E31T controller, it's supposed to be a cool and value-focused PCIe 5.0 SSD. We put it to the test. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bu2...

In today's video, we got to try out the world's very first prebuilt desktop PC that uses a RISC-V CPU instead of one based on the x86 or Arm architectures. This DeepComputing PC isn't meant to go mainstream yet, but it looks promising. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4zh...

Today we're taking a look at two SSDs from Yottamaster, another relative newcomer to storage like we've been seeing lately. They've got the PCIe 4.0-powered Y7000 Pro and the PCIe 3.0-based Y3000. One is worth buying, one isn't. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=anaL...

Today we reviewed Acer's Chromebook Plus 514, which goes for just under $300 right now. You might think this PC would be slow and barely tolerable, but it packs surprisingly good performance and lots of battery life. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5r...

Hey everyone, so we're not gonna have a video for tomorrow like we intended due to some behind the scenes issues. That video will hopefully come out next week, but since this delay came at the last minute, we literally can't make a video for tomorrow.

In today's video, we tried to use the Deck as a normal desktop gaming PC. It technically worked... but there were some sticking points. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fe8...

Thanks to USB 4, docks can be super beefy and have more and faster ports than ever before. Today, we're looking at Razer's USB 4 dock, which has as many ports as a decent desktop. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZff...

We're live again, this time for Nvidia's CES 2025 presentation! Watch here now: youtube.com/live/IRlU1Po...

Hey everyone, we're live with our Intel and AMD CES presentation livestream! Watch here: youtube.com/live/RXxGzSY...

Instead of a regular video today, we'll be hosting two livestreams reacting and analyzing CES 2025 presentations, mainly Intel's, AMD's, and Nvidia's. Nvidia's presentation is much later in the day, so we've decided to just do two livestreams instead of waiting for hours. Hope to see you there!

After a brief winter break, we're back! We've updated our test bench and testing methodology for future component reviews. For 2025, we should upload twice a week: on Mondays and Fridays (or at least that's the plan. Happy New Year! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JamG...

PNY sent us their Pro Elite Prime 1.5TB SD card to review, and it's a pretty compelling product given that micro SD cards are pretty much the best secondary storage option for handheld PCs. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8A9...

This single chart shows why Lunar Lake could be an absolutely amazing chip for handheld PCs. Top line is the 7940HS in the Flow X13, middle is the 256V in the Galaxy Book5 Pro 360, and bottom is the Deck APU in the Steam Deck LCD.

We're finally taking a look at a laptop powered by an Intel Lunar Lake CPU: Samsung's Galaxy Book5 Pro 360. At $1700, you definitely get what you pay for and more. We give this laptop a thumbs up. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=82r8...