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Samarveer Singh

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Contributor Since January, 2025
Qualifications Bachelor of Arts (Honors) English Literature
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About Samarveer Singh

Gaming has been Samarveer’s greatest passion, and the Literature graduate in him takes immense joy in dissecting games for their themes, messages, and impact. Samarveer holds a deep appreciation of gaming, and considers the platform to be the most immersive and impactful across all media. He can be found engaging with gaming communities online, always ready to debate the finer points of ray tracing or itching to write an 8-page collegiate thesis on any game that impacts him emotionally.

How long have you been interested in technology?

Tech and gaming have always gone hand-in-hand for me. Ever since I was two and began playing Midtown Madness 2, that yellow Beetle, and the PC it ran on, became my entire life. 

What tech products or categories are you most passionate about?

If it can run Doom, I'm going to be obsessed with it. Apart from gaming PCs, I love gaming consoles, mobiles, headphones, and automobiles. A personal piece of tech I'm fervently passionate about is my DIY PS5 Portal.

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach PlayStation 5 review.

Review: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is my game of the year, and it really isn't close

An image of Doom Eternal and Elden Ring on a monitor with two people holding up two different controllers.

5 video game rules I thought were universal until I taught them to my partner

A collage of Wolf from Sekiro, Max from Life is Strange, and Adam Jensen from Deus Ex.

5 powerful lessons these games taught me growing up

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DLSS Multi Frame Generation unlocked on an RTX 4070 Ti PC with Control Resonant.
NVIDIA wanted me to upgrade my RTX 4070 Ti for Multi Frame Generation, but I found another way
Nvidia

3 years in and my GPU is still getting new features

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SSD write test speed decreasing dramatically on a PC.
My SSD hit a speed cliff after 19 seconds, and the spec sheet never warned me
SSD

Things got ugly past the advertised speeds

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A person holding USB devices in front of a Windows machine
Windows remembers every USB device you've plugged in, and checking your history takes five minutes
Windows 11: Everything you need to know

A digital time capsule, right in your own PC

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Gemma4 on Llama.cpp translating a browser webpage through an extension.
I ditched Google Translate for a local model running on my GPU, and it works offline too
Google Translate

I'm getting more out of my gaming hardware than ever before

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Microsoft Windows 95 running on a modern PC with hidden Excel 95 game, on a dual-monitor setup.
Microsoft hid a Doom-like game inside Excel 31 years ago, and you can still play it
Microsoft

They knew the Office suite could get boring

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GTA Vice City running Skate 3 mod on PC.
AI-created gaming mod mashups are pure chaos, and I can't get enough of them
Gaming

Tommy Vercetti is the new Tony Hawk

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Elden Ring with DLSS 5 on an OLED 1440p monitor with an Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti GPU in PC.
My "aging" GPU got years more life the day I stopped gaming at 4K
Nvidia

The only upgrade in 2026 that wouldn't burn a hole in the pocket

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Elden Ring with DLSS 5 Neural Rendering on an RTX 4070 Ti.
I'm making DLSS 5 run faster and look better on my last-gen GPU, and it's all thanks to Optiscaler
GPU

Open-source tools, always to the rescue

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Bloodborne PS4 disc with Bloodborne on PC with DLSS 5.
Bloodborne and P.T. finally run on PC "natively," so I remastered them with DLSS 5
Nvidia

These abandoned classics deserved better

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Nvidia DLSS 5 running on a PC with 1993 Doom.
I gave my retro DOS games the DLSS 5 treatment, and the results were all over the place
Nvidia

Neural rendering in a retro gaming setup is interesting, to say the least.

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GTA VI extended look on Netflix on a Mini-LED TV.
Your TV was tuned for a showroom instead of your living room, and 5 minutes can fix it
TV

The "Standard" mode was built to sell the TV, not to look good at home

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Holding a Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, with One UI 9.
I almost wrote off these Galaxy One UI 9 features as gimmicks, but they genuinely made my life better
Samsung

They almost run my daily routine now

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Jellyfin library on Kodi app for Google TV 4K.
I gave Jellyfin a Kodi makeover, and my media library felt brand-new
Entertainment

My media center has never looked better

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OBS Studio on Windows 11 with a dual monitor setup.
OBS is one of the most useful apps on my PC even if I've never streamed anything
Software and Services

It's absolutely worth installing even if you never go live

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XPG Adata S70 Blade NVMe SSD held in front of a PC.
Everyone told me to buy a SATA SSD in 2026, but paying more for an NVMe drive still made more sense
SSD

I paid a little more, but I'll do it again

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Stremio app on a 4K Mini-LED TV.
Self-hosting got tiring, so I swapped Plex and Jellyfin for this sideloaded streaming app
Entertainment

I barely touch my media server now

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Unlocking hidden Ultimate Performance power plan in Windows 11.
I unlocked Windows 11's hidden performance power plan, but I wouldn't enable it on every PC
Microsoft

Not a lot in the way of upside, but still significant

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Castor running and stremaing to TV via Command Terminal.
I finally found an open-source tool that casts web video to my TV without hijacking my PC screen
PC

My PC finally learned to share, but not its screens

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Sideloaded apps on Google TV
Sideloading these 4 apps on my Google TV fixed everything Google got wrong
TV

They fixed the Google TV problems I'd gotten used to

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An MSI RTX 3060 12GB Graphics card.
The RTX 3060's 12GB accidentally solved the GPU memory crisis Nvidia created
Nvidia

The GPU has outlived the GPUs that replaced it — twice

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