5 PC hardware downgrades the industry disguised as "progress"
… And even these 6-core CPUs don't offer enough gen-on-gen gains to justify an upgrade. …
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What explains expensive GPUs having insufficient memory?
GPU companies want you to buy more, and artificial segmentation is a neat way to force you to do just that. To me, it feels obvious that a higher-end SKU deserves to have more VRAM than lower-end counterparts, but Nvidia doesn't agree. While its RTX 5060 Ti has a 16GB variant, the 30% faster RTX 5070 is left to struggle with just 12GB of VRAM. Sure, the RTX 5070 Ti has 16GB of VRAM, but so does the top-tier RTX 5080, as inexplicable as that is. Even the last-gen RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Super have 16GB of memory; why does the successor not have more? The simple answer is that Nvidia is the market
5 PC hardware downgrades the industry disguised as "progress"You're upgrading your PC in the wrong order, and these 3 mistakes prove it
… And it's not just GPUs. …
5 reasons I am done with PC building
… And Intel had the worst showing, thanks to its Arrow Lake CPUs, which ended up slower than the 14th Gen Raptor Lake processors . It seems the days of tangible improvements from one generation to the next are behind us. …
You're paying $100+ extra for motherboard features you'll never use
… Most people aren't packing their builds with multiple Gen 5 drives or relying on USB4 ports and multi-gig networking. Even overclocking isn't as popular as it used to be a decade ago, with many gamers now choosing to undervolt their CPUs to sustain boost clocks for longer. …
Forget SO-DIMM RAM — every laptop should have adopted LPCAMM2 years ago
… Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 8.5 /10 Operating System Windows 11 CPU Up to Intel Core Ultra 9 285H wtih vPro GPU Intel Arc, Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 8GB, Nvidia RTX PRO 2000 8GB RAM Up to 64GB LPDDR5X, CAMM2 $3071 at Lenovo Related 5 next-gen PC hardware innovations I'm excited about The CPUs, SSDs, and RAM… …
CAMM2 is replacing the RAM stick as we know it, and your next laptop will prove it
… Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 8.5 /10 Operating System Windows 11 CPU Up to Intel Core Ultra 9 285H wtih vPro GPU Intel Arc, Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 8GB, Nvidia RTX PRO 2000 8GB RAM Up to 64GB LPDDR5X, CAMM2 $3199 at Lenovo Related Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 review: Stylish performance for the enterprise That… …
AMD just dropped a compact AI workstation that makes discrete GPUs look outdated for running LLMs
… Pre-orders commence in June 2026, but it'll be the next wave of SKUs that will really make this an interesting proposition by AMD. This 300-series AI Halo hasn't even launched yet, and the company has already outed what's next with Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 series CPUs. …
The fastest SSD in your system shouldn't always be your boot drive
… This is a 1TB or 2TB PCIe Gen 4 or 5 SSD with DRAM. Use this as your boot drive. It's snappy, reliable, and has high endurance. Next, have drive B, which is your thoroughbred drive. This is your fastest PCIe Gen 6 NVMe. …
AMD's rumored Ryzen 7 7700X3D could be the budget X3D CPU gamers have been waiting for
… Sign in to your XDA account Just when you thought AMD was done with releasing older-gen CPUs, there's now work the company may be gearing up to release a Ryzen 7 7700X3D. …
My NAS does more than store files, and most people are barely using theirs
… LincPlus LincStation N2 8.5 /10 CPU Intel N100 Memory 16GB DDR5 soldered Drive Bays 4x M.2 SSD, 2x SATA drives 2.5-inch Ports 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C, 2x USB 2.0 Type-A $409 at LincPlus