Published May 8, 2026, 12:00 PM 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. The BIOS is one of the first places enthusiasts go to make their PCs faster, but it's also one rife with ways to make it feel worse to use. A system can be “faster” in the narrow sense that it posts a better benchmark score, but feels a lot more troublesome in day-to-day usage, and that part gets lost in a lot of advice about BIOS settings.…