Published May 3, 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. Motherboard defaults are built so that users get up and running as easily as possible. They're safe, reliable, and give your system the best chance to boot and continue to function properly, but they're not optimal. This includes fan curves, which are often forgotten about among the other more tangible ways to increase performance through the BIOS .…