I blamed my NAS for slow streaming until I realized what transcoding was actually doing
…Or you could add a GPU to your NAS if it's a DIY build or if the company that made it supports it. That will offload the transcoding to the GPU…
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The Steam Machine is coming for consoles, whether Valve admits it or not
…t be a big deal. The other angle is that third-party vendors will likely launch cheaper (and pricier) variants, which will further chip at the pricing argument against the Steam Machine…
Krita's AI plugins do what Photoshop charges $120 a year for, and the results surprised me
…Related 7 Krita plugins to boost your creative workflow Plugins will smooth out your creative workflow in Krita for impressive results Pricey subscriptions and Adobe’s anti-consumer measures are deal-breakers…
FSR 4.1 made older Radeon cards interesting again, but not for the reason AMD wants
…Sign in to your XDA account Why would a company, especially in the cutthroat hardware segment, willingly make a last-generation offering a better deal than it was before? The very foundation…
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An RTX 30 series GPU is the most sensible buy right now, and the Steam numbers prove it
1d agoA used workstation costs less than a new GPU, but it pays for itself in ways gaming hardware never will
1d agoMid-range GPUs have largely dodged the memory crisis, but not for much longer
1w agoI ran local AI models on a six-year-old laptop with no GPU, and they actually worked
1w agoI've been running some of the biggest open-weight LLMs for free on Nvidia's cloud
…you eventually decide to self-host it, is the GPU power to run it. There's no version of this particular deal where the free tier locks you in. Setup is basically…
I built the weirdest possible NAS from hardware I already owned, and it works surprisingly well
…USB 2.0, Ethernet, 2x micro HDMI, 2× 4-lane MIPI transceivers, PCIe Gen 2.0 interface, USB-C, 40-pin GPIO header GPU VideoCore VII Starting Price $60 $130 at Adafruit
I turned my living room into a Raspberry Pi-flavored arcade without storing a single game locally
…USB 2.0, Ethernet, 2x micro HDMI, 2× 4-lane MIPI transceivers, PCIe Gen 2.0 interface, USB-C, 40-pin GPIO header GPU VideoCore VII Starting Price $60 $175 at CanaKit
A $65 handheld emulator beats anything Nintendo currently sells for retro gaming
…like Anbernic's RG34XXSP, both in terms of price and versatility. Anbernic RG 34XXSP $65 at Anbernic Related I didn’t expect this GPU-powered SNES emulator to make 16-bit games…
Running local AI on the Raspberry Pi 5 taught me why cloud models are still winning
…MIPI transceivers, PCIe Gen 2.0 interface, USB-C, 40-pin GPIO header GPU VideoCore VII Starting Price $60 The Raspberry Pi 5 is a cheap SBC that supports running basic AIs…
I fixed each of my PC's biggest bottlenecks without spending a single dollar
…Related Your GPU, RAM, and SSD all have firmware you've never updated, and it can actually matter Your system might have firmware updates that you never knew about. Updating my BIOS…