Why you shouldn't keep your PC case on the floor
PC placement usually comes down to convenience rather than any technical reasoning. Towers are bulky, and not everyone has desk space for a full-size case, so the tower often just gets shoved under the desk....
RTX 5080 owner burns out graphics card after launching GTA 5 with DLSS 5 – replacement issued anyway
NVIDIA's DLSS 5 remains in limited release, but experimental libraries have already spread online and are being actively injected into dozens of games through third-party tools. One RTX 5080 owner learned the hard way what...
The Samsara wheel of PC Gamers – new technologies slow down old powerful graphics cards
Upscaling and frame generation were originally created for one purpose – giving weaker hardware a second wind. In practice, the industry quickly found another use for them: instead of optimizing a game for real hardware,...
Replacing thermal paste boosted FPS on RTX 2080 Ti almost twofold and lowered hotspot temperature by 10 degrees
A GeForce RTX 2080 Ti owner discovered that years of dried-out thermal paste had been quietly stealing half of the card's performance. After a quick repaste, the GPU started pushing out nearly twice the frame...
The artist showed a 23-year-old photo with the fairy that Nvidia once used to promote video cards
Ahead of Nvidia latest earnings report, longtime PC scene veteran and digital artist Bryan Brinkman posted a photo of himself from E3 2003, showing him at eighteen years old standing next to a model dressed...
Enthusiast attached a dual-tower CPU cooler to a GTX 1080 Ti and dropped the temperature by 32 degrees
Modder TrashBench is back with another round of experiments on old Nvidia Pascal cards, this time cutting apart three different GPUs: the GTX 1060, GTX 1070, and GTX 1080 Ti. The idea was simple on...
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...
16 GB of video memory has become the new standard for gamers on Steam
The bar for a "normal" amount of video memory has quietly moved up. Just a couple years ago, 8GB counted as a comfortable minimum for most games, but cards with that same amount are no...
Nvidia gaming GPU revenue dropped 13% despite record $215.9B in annual earnings
Nvidia has published its financial results for fiscal Q4 2026, and the numbers tell a complicated story. On one hand, the company continues to pull in staggering sums of money. On the other, gaming GPU...
NVIDIA won't release new graphics cards in 2026 – first time in 30 years
NVIDIA faces serious challenges with its consumer graphics card plans. According to a new report from The Information, the company has completely abandoned launching the RTX 50 SUPER series this year and significantly cut production...
January Steam Survey: RDNA 4 debuts in GPU charts as Intel gains ground
Many expected January's Steam Hardware Survey to mark the moment AMD finally overtakes Intel in CPU market share. But January 2026 became the first month since August when Intel gained ground while AMD's share declined....
