homelab hardware

The August 10 roundup, “8 Best Thin Clients for Proxmox Homelabs 2026 – Tested Picks,” identifies several genuinely useful small-form-factor systems, but its buying advice is undermined by a basic problem: the published hardware specifications, upgrade paths, and test claims do not consistently...

Lekuo’s SouthBridge Max PB65MX3 is an unusual PCIe add-in card that uses AMD’s B650-class Promontory 21 I/O controller to turn one PCIe 4.0 x4 slot into four M.2 NVMe positions, four SATA ports, two 10Gbps USB-A ports, 10Gbps USB-C, and 20Gbps USB-C. The practical catch is simple: all of that...

The “12 Best CPUs for Servers (August 2026)” label is premature and, more importantly, misleading. A guide published on July 23, 2026 cannot reliably represent an August buying list, and a closer look at its recommendations reveals a deeper issue: most of the highlighted processors are...