Published May 6, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path.  Besides being the first call for tech support for those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals. If you've been lucky enough to go through a PC upgrade or two in the last few years, there's a good chance you have had a GPU leftover. It's probably sitting in an anti-static bag in a drawer somewhere, totally dormant, or you've been meaning to put it up on a pre-owned marketplace but just haven't.…