There used to be a time when your storage drive determined how fast your system could boot, but with how fast modern SSDs have become, that's hardly a variable to consider. In fact, there are other ...

Modern computers have become pretty powerful, and even compared to the builds from 5 years ago, we've come a pretty long way. Back in the day, the metric for how powerful and fast your computer was ...

After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and ...

We lock down our user accounts with passwords. But the BIOS often gets left unguarded. This vulnerability allows anyone with physical access to your PC to tamper with critical system settings. This ...

Madeline (She/Her) is a PC Author at XDA with 13 years of experience in tech journalism. She focuses on gaming, computer hardware, components, and software. Mini PCs tend to do well with their ...

Viewing and changing your BIOS settings can be a painful experience; you need to reboot your system, hit the right key combinations at the right time to enter the BIOS, navigate around somewhat ...

I've got an FIC AN-11 running Athlon XP 1700+ with half a gig of ram. I've been running with a single 40 gig hard drive (IBM Deskstar) but the motherboard has onboard RAID 0 and 1 support. So the 40 ...

I have been trying to figure out how to set the fan speeds in the bios so they do not ramp up and then down constantly at loud speeds but it seems no matter what is changed manually when you go to ...