
A computing enthusiast has repurposed a very noisy and largely obsolete enterprise GPU (with lots of VRAM) for local LLM inference purposes.

Thermaltake has a no-brainer deal up on Woot right now where it’ll let you have an $1,800 PC for as little as 1,177. For that price, you’re getting an RTX 5060 Ti (8GB), a Core Ultra 7 265KF, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, and a nice ARGB case.
Game Compressor leverages Windows’ built-in LZX compression for substantial space savings and can save you hundreds of gigs across your game library.
The rise and fall of a pair of eSports hotel RAM thieves has been retold by Chinese news media.

Intel posts 25% higher year-over-year sales and above-the-guidance earnings, and confirms that its 14A technology is on-track to start high volume ramp in 2028.
A fresh leak suggests AMD is preparing an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 mobile processor with 96MB of L3 cache, potentially bringing the desktop Ryzen 7 9800X3D experience to gaming laptops.

The performance is impressive and it’s good to see official support, but the question remains whether you can actually buy any of it.

Nvidia took the first stab with its Vera results earlier this week, and now AMD is biting back with SPEC results for its Zen 6 ‘Venice’ CPUs, as well.

On this day in 2006, AMD confirmed its acquisition of graphics chip firm ATI. AMD stumped up a cash-and-stock deal worth a total of $5.4B for the Canadian PC graphics innovators.

AMD’s Lisa Su shows off the company’s roadmap through 2030, including teases of Zen 7 and Zen 8 CPUs.