Monitor arms aren't marketed right, and I've had enough
…He's written about everything from UI and UX changes across various apps to emerging software and AI trends. At XDA, he showcases his versatility in the tech reporting space with articles…
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After a year of self-hosting LLMs, I realized the real bottleneck isn’t the GPU
…The real upgrade isn’t buying better GPUs or chasing new models. It’s thinking more deliberately about how everything fits together. In the end, the effectiveness of your AI system depends…
Your 8GB GPU isn't as doomed as everyone says, and Nvidia just proved it
…This method also completely avoids any kind of generative randomness or flickering that's associated with AI-assisted rendering techniques. It's deterministic in nature, meaning it produces identical output with each…
The GTX 1080 Ti was legendary, but this 4-year-old Nvidia GPU may age even better
…That's the main reason why I didn't even bother upgrading. I don't feel like I'm missing out on much because the 4090 is still the second-fastest GPU…
My RTX 5090 can't keep up with Apple Silicon on the biggest local LLMs, and I hate to admit it
…For the record, I'm not saying that you should go out and buy an Apple Silicon-based machine for local AI, nor am I saying that it's the only way…
AMD locked FSR 4 behind new GPUs, but older cards can run it anyway
…Officially, RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs just don't have the required AI acceleration blocks to run FSR 4 as intended. Unofficially , though, things are a lot murkier, and far more…
I've been building x86 PCs for more than a decade, but I'm not sure my next computer will be one
…Since then, I've built or upgraded a ton of different systems for both myself and others. Over the past decade or so, the answer to a question relating to buying or…
DaVinci Resolve 21 wants to replace Lightroom now, and it might just get me to switch — and pay for it
…especially when using the AI-powered UltraNR mode. This took a long time to process and that could be because it doesn't seem to be GPU accelerated right now, but the…
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
…I can upgrade RAM and storage, but for a laptop this old, upgrading the processor isn’t a feasible option. The server stalls and becomes unresponsive when multiple CPU-heavy operations run…
Claude Fable 5 caught bugs GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 missed, then the US government forced it offline
…its own performance when it detected work related to frontier AI development, including pretraining pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, and ML accelerator design. Anthropic was not forcing it to refuse or reroute to…