Your motherboard's worst PCIe slot might be the most useful one in your build
…The only cards that need higher bandwidth than what a PCIe x1 slot can offer are HBA cards, graphics cards, and multi-SSD NVMe adapters . EDUP PCIe WiFi 6E Card The EDUP…
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Over 40% of Steam gamers are still using RTX 30 and 40 GPUs, and DLSS is a big reason why
4d agoBuying a GPU in 2026 means buying a software ecosystem, not a graphics card
4d agoIntel's Arc G3-Series chips are here to power the next generation of handheld gaming PCs
1w agoI'd rather buy an older high-end GPU than a newer low-end one, and VRAM is only part of why
1w agoThe worst gaming GPU in your drawer might be your best home server upgrade
…A single 1080p transcode can pin multiple CPU cores for an extended period, and if multiple people are streaming simultaneously, the bottleneck becomes very real, very fast. An old gaming GPU will…
I added a second GPU just for local AI workloads, and it cost less than upgrading my main one
…The tasks that most people need their local LLMs to do fall under inference rather than training, so even an older GPU is good enough to power through them. Whichever GPU you…
DLSS has turned buying a GPU into analyzing different software tiers, and I can't keep up
…rewired the entire graphics card market Until the beginning of this decade, every GPU generation tried to surpass both its rivals and its predecessors through sheer brute-force power. Progress was defined…
I didn’t know I could give my old laptop a second life with an eGPU
…You can connect your laptop to an external enclosure that houses a full desktop graphics card. In simple terms, it gives your laptop access to desktop GPU power without needing to open…
My motherboard’s default BIOS settings were secretly killing my gaming experience
…already had unrestricted access to my graphics card's VRAM. I later discovered that, under older PCIe standards, the CPU could only communicate with the GPU's memory in relatively small 256MB…
These motherboard headers do something most PC builders never discover
…When you have multiple PCIe cards plugged in, your primary GPU may not benefit from all the additional power that can be had directly from the PCIe slot. This is where you…
When AAA game developers block entire GPU brands, PC gaming loses its biggest advantage
…In a statement to Wccftech , Intel said it had offered hardware, drivers, and direct engineering support across multiple GPU generations. Pearl Abyss eventually reversed course Too little, too late? The initial backlash…
LM Studio's frontend was slowing me down, so I switched to this instead
…Blackwell GPU, which gives me 96GB of VRAM to use some of the more powerful models locally. I still can't run some of the frontier models, which would require multiples of…
I ditched my dedicated GPU for integrated graphics and cut my power bill in half
…Dedicated hardware for something that could be achieved using other required components, like the CPU, also helps reduce power consumption. It's a waste of the GPU since it largely stayed underutilized…