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…
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A $15 fan controller did more for my PC than a new case ever could
Jasmine Mannan May 29, 2026, 7:00 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…
FSR 4.1 just made AMD's last-gen flagship a smarter buy than its current one
…The extra 4GB VRAM and wider bus of the RX 7900 XT help enthusiasts run their local LLM workloads , Stable Diffusion image generation, AI-assisted productivity, and heavier VRAM-sensitive applications a…
The best $50 I ever spent on my PC didn't add a single frame to my games
Jasmine Mannan Apr 2, 2026, 7:31 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…
I turned off HAGS and gained back a gigabyte of VRAM with almost no FPS loss
…It's not a bad combo by any means, but it's definitely showing its age (seriously, the DRAM pricing crash can't come soon enough). The instinct, then, would be to…
These 4 SSD habits are costing you thousands in premature replacements
…This puts pressure on the controller to work a lot harder to accomplish the same tasks it could without breaking much of a sweat had it some more free space. Putting a…
I almost bought a used Nvidia Tesla GPU for my home lab, then I read what owners actually deal with
…unbeatable at this price point. Related This 5-year-old GPU handles local LLMs better than the newest from Nvidia The RTX 3090 has aged beautifully for local AI, thanks to its…
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