RAM crisis provokes enthusiast to try Windows 11 on DDR1-era hardware — other key vintage components included the Core 2 Q6600 and ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

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Japanese firm launches hyper-realistic capsule toy PC parts ‘you can assemble and play with’ — tiny motherboards, cases, and CPUs are coming after Tarlin inks c

bit_user I don’t usually go for stuff like this, but it might be kinda neat. I wouldn’t play the gachapon, machines though. I’d rather pay a bit more and select the parts, like I do for real PCs. On a loosely-related not…

Legacy Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB returns to retail five years after original launch, priced at $339 — resurrected GPU strategy that Jensen called a ‘good idea’ appar

In the event that Nvidia does prioritize datacenter products over consumer ones, the already elevated prices of entry-level RTX 50-series cards might give way to a situation where one simply can’t buy these lower-priced,…

China’s hollow-core fiber trial pushes 51.3 Tb/s over 128 miles without signal regeneration — milestone targets AI-era networking bottlenecks

On the hardware side, the researchers built a high-power amplifier using a cascaded dual-gain-unit architecture and a multi-element doping design, achieving a maximum output of 33.5 dBm (roughly 2.24 W) while maintaining…