In China, modified RTX 3080 with 20GB are returning to the market as a budget solution for gamers
The graphics card market is showing an unusual trend that runs against the usual march of progress. Instead of fading into history, old flagship GPUs are getting a second life thanks to Chinese companies that...
Phison's head believes that the shortage of NAND flash memory and the rising cost of SSDs will last another four years
The memory crisis that kicked off in 2025 and already rewrote RAM and SSD price tags worldwide isn't slowing down anytime soon, according to the latest comments from the industry. Phison CEO Pua Khein-Seng laid...
Wire vs. air – experts continue to debate why wired internet is better than Wi-Fi
Renovating a new house can mean a lot of things, but running gigabit Ethernet to every single room before the furniture even shows up puts you in a different league entirely. One Redditor described spending...
Gamer lowered laptop processor temperature by 15°C by simply changing the desk surface
The constrained internal space of gaming laptops leaves little room for effective cooling. That leaves owners of these machines searching for various mods and experimenting with thermal paste replacement and undervolting. One gamer found an...
Cases with a cigarette lighter, oven, and ashtray – recalling the era when a PC pretended to be a car
A computer case stopped being just a box for hardware a long time ago – these days it's a showcase of tempered glass, RGB lighting, and vertically mounted graphics cards. But there was a period...
Enthusiast turned a mini-PC into a fully passively cooled mini-server and retained 95 percent of performance
A Korean tech enthusiast running the YouTube channel Reeal Lab turned a Geekom A8 Max mini PC into a completely silent server, swapping out the stock active cooling for a passive heatsink pulled from a...
Millennial generation is absolutely dissatisfied with zoomers who don't want to understand technology and the simplest technologies
Technology has gotten so user-friendly that an entire generation grew up without ever looking under the hood, let alone accidentally deleting the System32 folder from Windows. Phones turn on by themselves, apps update themselves, and...
Modder bypassed GeForce NOW protection and turned a $10 subscription into a rental of a powerful cloud PC on Windows
A modder going by Zortos, working alongside developer dpadGuy, has found a way to break out of GeForce NOW restricted game interface and reach the full Windows desktop running on NVIDIA cloud hardware. The exploit...
An enthusiast decided to make a cat bed on top of his PC instead of spikes – it turned out that many people do this
Cats have an unerring instinct for heat, and they'll colonize any source of warm air faster than you can blink. A gaming PC, with its fans and a case that's always warm, isn't just furniture...
RAM prices have rolled back to 2007 levels – AI destroyed 20 years of progress in a matter of months
Software performance expert, scientist, and GitHub developer Daniel Lemire compared historical computer memory prices and showed that decades of falling prices were undone in just a matter of months because of the massive demand for...
PC enthusiast sent liquid cooling directly onto the die of an RTX 2060 and lowered the temperature from 70°C to 28°C
An enthusiast going by the name TrashBench ran a radical GPU cooling experiment, ditching traditional heatsinks for direct water contact with the graphics chip silicon. The result turned out impressive, with temperatures dropping from 70°C...
Gamers tried to figure out why electricity doesn't work if you plug a plug in between two outlets
A regular power strip works in such a basic way that it seems impossible to break its logic. Under the plastic casing hide two long metal bars: one connects all the live contacts, the other...
Gamers are amazed by the design of a limited-edition case from 2011, which will finally get an upgrade
PC cases rarely survive more than a couple of upgrades. Usually people swap them out along with the motherboard, or just when they get tired of the old design. But sometimes hardware comes along that...
Gamer used AI Claude to create free protection for RTX 5090 from power connector melting
Many owners of NVIDIA top-end graphics cards live in fear of the high-density 12 4-pin connector that powers their GPUs. This connector has shown questionable reliability compared to older PCI Express connectors, largely due to...
RTX 4090 servicing photos confirm that you shouldn't smoke near your PC
Smoking near your PC can turn even a top-tier graphics card into something resembling an archaeological find. Knowing that in theory is one thing. Actually seeing a GeForce RTX 4090 heatsink caked in an even...
Gamer built a modern PC in an old-school case with a Turbo button and digital display
There was a time when computer power got measured not by benchmarks, but by the size of blinking red digits on the case. Toggle switches, seven-segment displays, heavy metal buttons labeled Turbo, and the obligatory...
PC owner gathered cables into one bundle using several dozen zip ties and got a spine inside the case
Two shots of the back panel of an ASUS ROG case show cable management taken to its absolute limit. The first photo shows the starting point – cables are already bundled, but the harnesses still...
PC prices have risen so much that manufacturers are selling outdated hardware disguised as new
Let's be honest, high-end DDR5 memory or a new graphics card for your dream PC build probably isn't in the budget right now. Instead, major component makers prefer selling updated versions of already outdated motherboards,...
Did you know that the first ethernet cable was bright yellow so that no one would accidentally drill into a power cable
If you think the color of ethernet cables comes down to convenience or marketing, the history of the standard tells a different story. The original spec, drawn up in the 1970s, called for cables in...
Enthusiast hacked a laptop's BIOS using Claude Code and unlocked 55 hidden settings
Laptops with locked BIOS sometimes sell for low prices because of the restrictions that this kind of firmware protection creates. A user of the Claude AI shared the process that let them successfully unlock an...
