AI enthusiast adds Nvidia Tesla V100 as loud as a lawnmower to gaming PC for $266 — 32GB of VRAM rig can run 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second
AI enthusiast adds Nvidia Tesla V100 as loud as a lawnmower to gaming PC for $266 — 32GB of VRAM rig can run 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second

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

Grab an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with Core Ultra 7 CPU and 32GB RAM for under $1,200 — Thermaltake’s View u2660T-170 slashed by 33%
Grab an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with Core Ultra 7 CPU and 32GB RAM for under $1,200 — Thermaltake’s View u2660T-170 slashed by 33%

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 can save you hundreds of GB across your game library — as storage prices remain high, utility leverages Windows’ built-in LZX compression for substantial space savings

Game Compressor leverages Windows’ built-in LZX compression for substantial space savings and can save you hundreds of gigs across your game library.

Intel commits to 14A mass production in 2028 as its sales rise 25% year-over-year
Intel commits to 14A mass production in 2028 as its sales rise 25% year-over-year

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.

AMD working on new X3D V-cache mobile chip for gaming laptops, leaker claims — Ryzen 7 9800HX3D could launch with 8 cores, 16 threads, and 96MB cache

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.

Gigabyte announces support for Chinese-made CXMT memory — pushes it to 8200 MT/s on Socket AM5
Gigabyte announces support for Chinese-made CXMT memory — pushes it to 8200 MT/s on Socket AM5

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

AMD exec was ‘very happy’ to see Nvidia‘s Vera performance results – ‘I actually thought we were beating them by smaller numbers’
AMD exec was ‘very happy’ to see Nvidia‘s Vera performance results – ‘I actually thought we were beating them by smaller numbers’

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.

AMD confirmed $5.4 billion ATI acquisition 20 years ago today — deal to ‘reinvent our industry’ paved the way for Radeon GPU innovation, APUs, and games console domination
AMD confirmed $5.4 billion ATI acquisition 20 years ago today — deal to ‘reinvent our industry’ paved the way for Radeon GPU innovation, APUs, and games console domination

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.