The most significant upgrade between the new RTX 3080 and the original is the extra 2GB memory, but it also has 8960 CUDA cores, which is a bump of almost 3%. That should provide you with some extra gaming performance overall, though it won’t be enough to change the visuals of your games completely. According to NVIDIA, the new card draws an extra 30 watts of power over the original, but you should still be able to run it with a 750W power supply....

RELATED: How to Set Up Plex (and Watch Your Movies on Any Device) Elan Feingold, CTO and Co-Founder at Plex, shared an early build of a Plexamp server for the Raspberry Pi on Tuesday. Once it’s downloaded to a Pi and opened, you can play music through a web interface on any web browser on the same local network, or choose the Pi as an output in the Plexamp app on other devices....

If you are unfamiliar with what I’m talking about, just right-click on the Computer icon and you’ll see: Here’s that same context menu without the items. Of course, it would probably be simplest to just uninstall, disable or remove file sharing altogether, but if you don’t want to do that and still want the menu items gone, this registry hack is for you. Note: This will completely disable all connect/disconnect menu items, including on currently mapped drives and the Tools menu....

I know, I know, I am not a champion of social networking, but this browser is pretty interesting. Flock is based on Mozilla’s Firefox browser which I am sure most of you are familiar. Flock’s User Interface is very intuitive and should be a snap for any Firefox user. Tabbed browsing, Skins, and of course plenty of Add-ons. I am not sure why but I was kind of surprised to see Yahoo as the default in the Search bar....

Turning this feature on couldn’t be simpler. Just stick the flash drive, SD card, or whatever flash device you want into your computer. You’ll see this dialog pop up: Click the “Speed up my system” link, and you’ll be taken to the ReadyBoost panel for the flash drive: Just select Use this device, and set the amount of space you want to use. Windows will create what is essentially a paging file on the disk, and will use it for faster access....

T-Mobile announced today that it has started rolling out Voice over 5G, also known as VoNR or Voice Over New Radio, in “limited areas of Portland, Ore. and Salt Lake City.” The feature is also currently limited to the Samsung Galaxy S21, but it will roll out to more areas and phones (like the Galaxy S22) in the near future. T-Mobile says phones using Voice over 5G will have a shorter delay between dialing a number and the phone starting to ring....

In both cases, you want a chair that’s comfortable to sit in for extended periods of time. You should be ending your gaming session because you’re done playing, not because your body hurts too much to keep going. This means ergonomics are at the top of the list of features. A properly curved back, adjustable armrests, neck and lower-back support, and anything that promotes good posture and comfort is a bonus....

What Are Bandwidth Vampires? A few years back, there was a lot of chatter about “energy vampires,” devices around the home that sucked down lots of electrical energy even when they weren’t in active use. One of the more notable examples of this problem, and one that got national attention at the time, were cable boxes—some units consumed more energy per year than a refrigerator. In that same vein—guess we’re just going to double up on the vampire references today—bandwidth vampires are devices around your home that use data when you’re not actively using them....

Of course I’ll suggest it, since Firefox is an excellent browser… But for most people, Internet Explorer works just fine and does everything you need. So let’s get that browser working properly again! Test Using Internet Explorer’s “Safe Mode” The first thing you can do is run Internet Explorer with all the add-ons (or plugins) disabled, which will help us determine if the problem is caused by an add-on or somewhere else in the system....

How VPNs Work To better find and understand VPN alternatives, we need to quickly go over how a VPN works. A virtual private network lets you reroute your connection so that your IP address, and thus virtual location are changed. This is great if you want to get around regional restrictions or blocks, whether put up by a government (like China’s Great Firewall) or something more mundane, like Netflix locking its regional libraries....

Missing the Joke On the internet, “whoosh” means that someone’s missed the point of the original post, especially they were unable to catch that meant to be a joke or sarcasm. If someone replies to you with a “whoosh,” then there’s a very good chance that you’ve missed something. For example, someone posts, “Wow, we should just burn all the books in the library,” as a joke. If you reply with a lengthy essay about the importance of preserving the written text, someone will probably respond to you with a “whoosh....

What Is a KVM Switch, and How Does It Work? In simple terms, a KVM switch allows you to switch between different computer sources (or computer cases) while still using the same keyboard, monitor, and mouse; in fact, that’s what KVM stands for: Keyboard, Video, Mouse. That means if you have several PCs you need to work with, you don’t have to buy separate monitors, keyboards, and mice for every single PC....

Facebook, the popular social network, boasts billions of users worldwide. Did you ever wonder how the service got its name—and what does “Facebook” mean, anyway? We’ll explain. It’s a Reference to Printed University Student Guides At some point in the 20th century, some American universities (and some private high schools) began issuing student directories that included headshot photographs of the students, similar to yearbooks, but often aimed at new or incoming students....

Why Some Tools Report RAM at Half Speed If you frequent PC building communities online like /r/BuildaPC or any other number of similar forums, you’ll often come across people recommending apps like CPU-Z and Speccy as great ways to check on your new PC. The apps are useful, to be sure, and a great way to get a lot of information about your computer at once. But the amount of information can be a bit overwhelming if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking at....

Windows 10 and 11 both have an Xbox Game Bar that can be opened with Win+G, or by pressing the Xbox button on an Xbox controller (the latter might require clicking a checkbox in the Windows Settings app). The Game Bar has quick shortcuts for creating screenshots and screen recordings, checking CPU and GPU usage, changing audio levels/outputs, and so on. However, you can’t open games from the Game Bar, which might be confusing for people used to pressing the Xbox button on an actual Xbox console (which takes you to the main menu with all your games)....

The upgraded MacBook Pro doesn’t look significantly different than the previous M1-powered 13-inch MacBook Pro. It doesn’t have the large notch found on the 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pro, and the much-contested Touch Bar is apparently sticking around. The M2 chip gives it an 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, with up to 24GB of unified memory (shared across the operating system and graphics), and up to 2GB of internal SSD storage....

Open Control Panel and select Add or remove user accounts. This will bring up a list of current user accounts on your system. At the bottom of this screen click on ‘Create a new account’ In the Create New Account screen type in the name of user. More often than not your going to want to make them a Standard user. When you’re finished click the Create Account button....

Open up Outlook 2007 and click on New to compose a new message, then click on the Insert tab on the Ribbon and choose Signature. Click on the New button on the Signatures and Stationery screen, type in a name for your signature then click OK. Now use the Edit signature box to compose your signature. You can change the colors, fonts, etc. You can use the “Choose default signature” section to choose a specific signature for different email accounts, if you have more than one account....

Note that enabling remote control of your desktop is never a safe thing to do unless you have a firewall installed and configured correctly, and even then is still a potential security problem. Now that you’ve been warned of the risks, let’s move on. Navigate to the System \ Preferences \ Remote Desktop on the Gnome top menu. You’ll see this window: The first two checkboxes need to be checked in order for remote desktop to be enabled....

Why Does a VPN Slow Down Your Connection? Let’s make one thing clear from the outset: a VPN cannot speed up your connection under normal circumstances—there’s one exception we’ll talk about later. Any claim to the contrary is either just nonsense or somebody doing a poor job of performing their speed tests. This is because of the nature of a VPN connection. When you connect to the internet normally, you connect to a server belonging to your internet service provider (ISP) and then to the site you want to visit....