Are you eyeing a PC case made mostly from metal? It’s about to get more expensive. The PC industry is already grappling with Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports. Now, vendors and customers face another cost increase thanks to separate tariffs on aluminum-based goods, including PC cases and graphics cards. “Yes, we’ve already been affected heavily,” … Read more
Previous-Generation Cards Normally, I’d recommend a previous generation card, but the RTX 40 Series and AMD 7000 cards are almost entirely out of stock or massively marked up at major retailers. There are still a few older-generation cards you can pick up relatively easily, and they’re some of the only options under $500, with newer … Read more
AMD’s CEO Lisa Su hints at more Ryzen AI Max APUs coming to desktop PCs Some of the APUs have been used in Framework Desktops It could be the start of discrete GPUs being subsided While Nvidia and AMD‘s new GPU lineups are at the forefront of PC gaming news, Team Red’s processors are on … Read more
Microsoft pulled out of a $12bn deal with CoreWeave, citing delays OpenAI took over the contract, backed by Microsoft’s own investment funds AI sector remains a closed loop driven by a few dominant players CoreWeave is eyeing a huge (potentially $2.5 billion) IPO in the coming weeks, but it has also had a few unflattering … Read more
OpenAI has enforced temporary rate limits on image generation using the latest GPT-4o model after the internet was hit with a tsunami of images recreated in a style inspired by Studio Ghibli. The announcement comes just a day after OpenAI stripped free ChatGPT users of the ability to generate images with its new model. OpenAI’s … Read more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke Thursday about the toll the viral Ghibli-style image trend has taken on his company’s resources. Altman wrote in a post on X that OpenAI’s “GPUs are melting” and that the company is introducing some temporary speed limits on the native image generation feature. “it’s super fun seeing people love images … Read more
ChatGPT creators OpenAI have introduced rate limits after a viral social media trend that saw nearly everything “Ghiblifyied” — turned into AI art in the style of the famous Japanese animation studio. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was one of the first to take part in the trend, posting a portrait of himself generated by the … Read more
Nvidia announced the release of Project G-Assist on Tuesday. The new feature is an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that runs locally on GeForce RTX GPU-powered desktop PCs. The current release is an experimental version of the chatbot, and it does not support RTX GPU-powered laptops. Focused on gaming, the AI assistant can control a wide … Read more
RTX 5060 Ti is apparently set to be ‘released’ come April 16, a new rumor insists A further rumor backs up the theory of this being an on-sale date for the GPU It looks like we’ll have to wait until May for the vanilla RTX 5060 to hit shelves, though We have a supposed release … Read more
Nvidia is getting some RTX 5080, 5070 Ti and 5070 stock to retail However, a source at a major retailer claims AMD is pushing way more supply through, by a factor of 2x to 4x The RTX 5090 is notable in not being mentioned, despite recent rumors that the Blackwell flagship GPU was due for … Read more