PC modder bolts 5.5-pound aluminum heatsink to RTX 4060 — convection-only cooling seems to work fine in a testbench-style installation
The size and weight of the card plus the heatsink rivals the hulking RTX 5090 norm.
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Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for $12 in this Newegg AM5 combo — score AMD’s new Ryzen 7700X3D, 16GB of RAM, and Asus B850 motherboard for only $491
The Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF is at all-time low pricing. This 20-core processor has 8 P-cores and 12 E-cores with 20 threads. The boost clocks of 5.4 GHz for the P-cores and 4.6 GHz for the E-cores enable this processor …
New plugin unlocks granular VRAM temperature tracking on Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs — community cracks open Blackwell’s forbidden telemetry sensors
Nvidia grants direct access to the company’s graphics cards and drivers through Nvidia API (NVAPI). Game and software developers employ NVAPI for a range of advanced features. Developers of monitoring tools, specifically…
AI tech companies have ‘hidden debt’ worth around $1.65 trillion, report claims — amount is 122% of debt reflected on the balance sheets of Alphabet, Amazon, Me
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Data centers forecast to use 20% of US power by 2035 — analysts estimate usage will rocket to 194 gigawatts, 83% more than forecast seven months ago
BNEF’s December outlook put 2035 demand at 106 GW, and that figure was itself 36% above the projection the firm published in April 2025, which works out to roughly 78 GW. The 2035 number has increased around 2.5 times in…
Shrink your PC setup with up to 25% off on Kamrui mini-PCs — big savings on the H1 for gamers and the Hyper H2 for pros
The Kamrui H1 is a budget gaming mini-PC with a Ryzen 7 7735HS with integrated Radeon 680M graphics. The Zen 3+ chip rocks an octa-core, 16-thread configuration with a boost clock speed up to 4.75 GHz. Meanwhile, the Rad…
Kimi K3 rocks the AI industry as Moonshot AI undercuts closed-source American competitors on price — but the huge 2.8T open-weight model still needs serious har
Ditching the cloud for local AI — how I use two mini PCs to process millions of tokens a day and save money on costly API fees
SMIC’s third-gen 7nm node shows smaller metal pitch than Intel 18A, higher transistor density than TSMC N6 without EUV — analysis of N+3 shows significant advan
SemiAnalysis’ teardown indicates that SMIC’s N+3 fabrication process supports a minimum metal pitch of 32.5nm, which is nominally tighter than the approximately 36nm pitch used for many high-performance cells in Intel’s …
New plugin unlocks granular VRAM temperature tracking on Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs — community cracks open Blackwell’s forbidden telemetry sensors
Nvidia grants direct access to the company’s graphics cards and drivers through Nvidia API (NVAPI). Game and software developers employ NVAPI for a range of advanced features. Developers of monitoring tools, specifically…
Google reportedly developing ‘Frozen v2’ chip with Gemini’s architecture etched into the silicon — engineers project 6 to 10 times more tokens per watt than lat
A TPU, like a GPU, runs whatever model is loaded onto it, which means the hardware makes time-consuming runtime decisions as it interacts with each one. Frozen v2 would have some of those decisions for Gemini fixed in th…
