A used Tesla V100 has quietly become the cheapest way to run local LLMs at home
…run local AI on a budget with its massive 24 GB of VRAM. Above that, it's either the RTX 5090, or you start to venture into the enterprise realm, which can…
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Samsung is killing off SATA SSDs, and your next storage upgrade just got a lot more expensive
Jasmine Mannan Mar 22, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
AMD's new memory tiering tech may soon turn storage into RAM, but your PC won't see it
…At those prices, simply throwing more memory at growing AI workloads is becoming an increasingly difficult proposition for cloud providers trying to keep infrastructure costs under control. That's the demand side…
AMD bringing back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D isn't worth celebrating — it's a warning sign for us all
…AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory diverted supply, inflating DDR4/DDR5 prices and wrecking upgrade budgets. Waiting for new CPU generations no longer guarantees affordable upgrades; watch memory market, not just…
I finally understand why Valve abandoned the Steam Machine — the Steam Deck just proved it
…Alongside this, because memory manufacturers are prioritizing high-margin AI silicon, consumer-grade LPDDR5 and NVMe storage supply lines have completely dried up, which has tripled component prices in a matter of…
5 features Claude used to make you pay for that are now free
Mahnoor Faisal Aug 24, 2026, 5:30 PM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
The AI boom crushed PC building, but it's the best thing that happened to home labs
…Sign in to your XDA account The AI boom has made building a competitive new PC genuinely painful. Memory and storage prices have surged to levels we haven't seen in years…
Nvidia's RTX Spark is a chip unlike any other, and it could change Windows laptops forever
…What will eventually matter in the local AI hardware race is superior performance combined with reliable software and a competitive price. Buyers in this segment won't be as price-conscious as…
2026 has changed gaming for the worse, gamers just don't realize it yet
…Nvidia and AMD are making bank by supplying enterprise GPUs to companies jumping on the AI bandwagon. They're launching RTX Spark and Strix Halo Developer Platform mini PCs with great fanfare…
The Steam Machine costs $1,050 because building a gaming PC that size isn't cheap
…Realistically, it would have been exceptionally difficult for the Steam Machine to hit a lower price tier without being heavily subsidized by Valve. Exploding enterprise demand for artificial intelligence clusters has drastically…