I bought a PCIe riser for aesthetics, and it created a problem nobody warns you about
…to issues in the game or sometimes even a lack of post altogether. When the PC boots, the BIOS asks the GPU how fast you can go, and the GPU says Gen…
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I don't use HDMI, and I never will
…There's a good reason graphics card manufacturers usually put three DisplayPort and one HDMI port on their GPUs, except for the few that use two HDMI ports for virtual reality users…
Bazzite is what most Linux gaming distros wish they were
…I rarely play online multiplayer titles, so anti-cheat issues on Linux aren't a deal-breaker for me. If you're worried about performance, Bazzite is significantly lighter than Windows and…
After a year of self-hosting LLMs, I realized the real bottleneck isn’t the GPU
…04 / 8 AI Models What does 'quantization' mean in the context of running LLMs on consumer hardware? A Splitting a model across multiple GPUs for parallel processing B Reducing the numerical precision…
I stopped using motherboard audio after one cheap USB DAC solved every problem I had
…Once a PC is filled with GPUs, RGB controllers, multiple drives and several connected devices, audio interference can still become a real problem, especially for people who regularly use wired headphones or…
Nvidia introduces new app feature designed to reduce game load times
…With Auto Shader Compilation on, this isn't an issue anymore. In other Nvidia-related news, the GPU giant's DLSS 5 AI technology has drawn ample criticism for adding an AI…
Please, for the love of all things holy, update your BIOS
…BIOS update solved a multitude of issues. From overloaded RAM to GPUs not being recognized to boot failures to poor game performance, a BIOS update fixed these issues. Those are all real…
You think frame generation boosts performance, but it exposes a bigger problem
…When you're dealing with CPU bottlenecks, you're not just seeing lower average FPS due to lower GPU usage. You're also facing issues like inconsistent frame times, dips, and stutters…
I still don't trust Nvidia's driver release notes after months of performance issues
…That's a terrible place for the industry's biggest GPU manufacturer to be in. The bigger issue, of course, is that Nvidia's release notes simply don't mean all that…
Linux gaming still breaks in ways that make normal people give up
…In the case of the latter, War Thunder was a game that I dealt with a ton of crashing in, across multiple GPUs on different systems. The game would run fine for…