Monica J. White-Author

Monica J. White

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Contributor Since October, 2025
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About Monica J. White

Monica J. White is a journalist with over a decade of experience in covering technology. She built her first PC nearly 20 years ago, and she has since built and tested dozens of PCs.

PC hardware is her main beat, and graphics cards and the GPU market at large are her main area of interest, but she has written thousands of articles covering everything related to PCs, laptops, handhelds, and peripherals. From GPUs and CPUs to headsets and software, Monica's always willing to geek out over all things related to computing.

Outside of her work with How-To Geek, Monica contributes to TechRadar, PC Gamer, Tom's Guide, Laptop Mag, SlashGear, Whop, and Digital Trends, among others. Her ultimate goal is to make PC gaming and computing approachable and fun to any audience.

Monica spends a lot of time elbow-deep in her PC case, as she's always making upgrades, testing something, or plotting out her next build. She's the go-to tech support person in her immediate circle, so she's never out of things to do. Whenever she has spare time, you'll find her gaming until the early hours and hanging out with her dog.

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Ugreen DXP4800 GT internal M.2 SSD slots populated beside Kingston memory.
5 unusual storage devices that are faster than any SSD (and why we don't use them for PC storage)
SSD

Your SSD isn't even close to the fastest place your PC can store data

Tailscale on an iPhone 15 Pro showing the details of a connected Raspberry Pi.
These 4 tools beat Tailscale for remote access—and they're way simpler
Wi-Fi Routers

Tailscale is great, but do you really need it?

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MSI Geforce RTX Graphics card inside a case.
The biggest scandal in GPUs never really went away, even though NVIDIA says it's fixed the problem
GPU

Four years later, one of the biggest GPU problems is still here

A white AT&T BGW320 Wi-Fi 6 router on a wooden shelf between two desktop towers.
How I extended my Wi-Fi connection without ruining my speeds
Wi-Fi Routers

I needed more Wi-Fi coverage, but I refused to use an extender

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A Lenovo laptop sitting on a bed, turned on with a black screen.
6 super-easy ways to repurpose a broken old laptop
Homelab

Your old laptop has more life in it than you might think

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A Wi-Fi router with the antennas extended using aluminum foil.
6 weird things you can do with an old Wi-Fi router that nobody seems to talk about
Wi-Fi Routers

Your old router can do way weirder things than extend Wi-Fi

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A Wi-Fi Extender plugged into an extension cable.
Access points vs. Wi-Fi extenders: One of these "solutions" just makes the problem worse
Wi-Fi Routers

If you use the wrong thing, you might be sabotaging your home network

A Pixel 10 Pro phone plugged into a router via USB.
IPv6 failed the internet, but it's secretly winning in your home network
Wi-Fi Routers

You might be using more IPv6 at home than you realize

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Person holding the Dell 14S showing how lightweight the laptop is.
Windows has a hidden setting that's making your laptop overheat while charging

This Windows setting could explain why your laptop gets so hot

Rear view of Amazon Eero router with USB-C and Ethernet plugged in.
Ethernet vs. Wi-Fi: Which devices still need to be plugged in?
Wi-Fi Routers

Your Wi-Fi is probably fast enough now, except for these devices

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A Seagate external desktop hard drive enclosure.
6 common habits that silently kill external HDDs before their time
SSD

Your external hard drive is more fragile than you think

Private DNS screen on a Morotola Razr Fold.
I added a second DNS server at home, and it fixed issues that had nothing to do with the internet
Wi-Fi Routers

I thought my home network was unreliable, but one DNS change fixed it

Closeup of the self hosted internet status page reading The internet is down and saying Adam is totally blameless with Router Up and Pihole Down.
6 weird ways you're killing your own internet connection
Wi-Fi Routers

It's not your ISP, it's you

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Performing internet speed test on a Samsung Galaxy A52S and getting 197.8 as high demand and 42.2 in main test.
This Ethernet cable test tells you more than a speed test ever will
Wi-Fi Routers

Speed tests are far from infallible, but we always try them first

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Close-up of a Kingston NV1 M.2 NVMe SSD installed in an M.2 slot inside a computer.
This NVMe SSD mistake leaves performance on the table before Windows even starts
SSD

Optimize your SSD: It's worth its weight in gold (quite literally)

Synology HAT3300-4T 4TB hard drive standing in front of a WD Red Plus NAS HDD.
You’re probably buying the wrong hard drive, and this 341,000-HDD study proves it
SSD

Thousands of massive hard drives just exposed a problem with buying cheap storage

A monitor displaying the Facebook Marketplace.
6 junk Facebook Marketplace finds that are secretly hiding free hard drives
SSD

$50 and a lot of patience can get you some more storage

Xiaomi Mi Router AX9000 on display at MWC 2024.
I found the weirdest thing interfering with my Wi-Fi, and the fix took 5 seconds
Wi-Fi Routers

I was quick to blame my ISP, but this time, it wasn't their fault

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The Razer Naga V2 Pro MMO mouse.
This simple setting doubled my mouse's battery life, and I'm not sure why I didn't try it sooner
Mouse

I no longer have to constantly charge my mouse

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The Huawei WiFi Mesh 3 router system at MWC 2024.
I tested my network 4 different ways, and finally found what was slowing it down
Wi-Fi Routers

I use these tests to find out where my home network is actually slow

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