SSD prices are still climbing, yet you are killing your drive for no good reason
…re quite cheap on eBay The current PC hardware crisis is here to stay Things won't change anytime soon When the AI data center demand led to a massive DRAM supply…
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I use Claude Pro, Qwen 3-Coder, and Gemma 4 together, and it's the most cost-efficient AI workflow I've ever built
…An economic model that only costs you a little effort Regrettably enough, the most common reason cloud AI subscribers shy away from local models is a combination of perceived complexity along the…
Your next storage upgrade shouldn't be an SSD — not for the next two years
…The AI-induced hardware crisis has affected HDDs, too, but to a much lesser extent. If you don't strictly need more blazing-fast storage for your PC, it's smarter to…
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is incredible, but entirely unnecessary
…for a specific class of professionals running heavy rendering or AI workloads, it will be the go-to choice. The economics of it, however, means that it will only appeal to a…
Used enterprise workstations are the home lab upgrade everyone overlooks
…Sign in to your XDA account Home lab upgrades come in many different forms, and it's easy to justify buying new hardware. In the case of jumping to a new motherboard…
AI broke the RAM market, but hybrid DDR4/DDR5 motherboards could be the fix
…The future of such a concept hinges entirely on the memory economics itself. If DDR5 prices continue to rise due to the AI-driven crunch, motherboard manufacturers may build a hybrid platform…
Your next SSD might be SATA again — here's why that's not a problem
…With PC hardware prices at record high levels owing to unprecedented AI demand, NVMe SSDs have been affected a lot worse than SATA drives. It's near-impossible to buy more NVMe…
An RTX 30 series GPU is the most sensible buy right now, and the Steam numbers prove it
…This time, it's not a global pandemic, crypto boom, or supply chain crisis, but an unprecedented demand for AI compute that has made PC hardware unaffordable for the masses. That said…
I disabled frame generation in three AAA titles, and it proved some games are better off without it
…If anything, its implementation has become a vital equalizer in a hardware economy where flagship GPUs (and even generational upgrades to non-flagship SKUs) has become unaffordable. Rather than being leveraged as…
We have reached the GPU ceiling, and AI tricks like DLSS are how companies pretend we haven't
…And in that gap between what games demand and what hardware can realistically deliver, AI, which was meant to help, has now quietly taken over. Related Stop calling it AI slop — upscaling…