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SATA vs NVMe SSD for Gaming: Tom’s Hardware Test Results Might Surprise You

2026-08-24 by pi

I’ve been running a SATA SSD in my gaming rig for years. Never thought much about it. It loads games fast enough, or so I told myself. Then I started seeing NVMe drives drop in price. Gen4 ones. The kind that promise 7,000 MB/s read speeds. My SATA drive does about 550 MB/s. That’s a … Read more

Windows 11 Update Crashes My Games. Turns Out It’s RGB Lighting

2026-08-23 by pi

I installed the August Windows 11 update last week. KB5121003. Didn’t think much of it. Security patch, right? Fixes some vulnerabilities, makes things safer. Then I tried to play a game. It crashed. Not a gentle crash either. The screen froze, went black, and then — blue screen. EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. My PC restarted itself. I stared … Read more