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Electronics hobbyist converts $120 DDR5 SODIMM kit into ‘$1000’ desktop kit to fight RAM crisis

By Mark Tyson Published

A hobbyist converted a SK hynix 2x 16GB DDR5-5600 SODIMM kit they got off Facebook Marketplace for $120 into a DDR5-7800 desktop kit.

DDR5
You can now modify the vBIOS on Nvidia gaming GPUs without flashing thanks to a solo developer’s project

By Jhet Borja Published

Flashing the VBIOS is risky and can brick a GPU, but this VBIOS configurator uses an Nvidia register key to override VBIOS settings without flashing.

GPU Drivers
Arm
Arm says its AGI CPU delivers nearly 2X the performance per rack of AMD EPYC 9755 in new agentic AI CPU tests

By Etiido Uko Published

Premium AGI CPU delivers a 20% average per-chip performance lead

Premium
Modder brings full Nvidia DLSS 5 suite to three generations of AMD gaming GPUs

By Jhet Borja Published

Radeon GPUs get the full DLSS experience as solo project ports all the DLSS features for RDNA2-4 GPUs.

GPUs
Cinebench world record that stood for 12 years gets toppled

By Mark Tyson Published

You don’t need the latest and greatest PC hardware to have fun or even break overclocking world records, as Luumi shows with an ancient Haswell system.

Overclocking
Nvidia RTX 5090 shipment worth $470,000 goes missing in Brazilian airport

By Jowi Morales Published

Brazilian electronics and IT distributor Oderço claims that two pallets of Zotac RTX 5090 GPUs have arrived at the airport but has since completely disappeared.

GPUs
Official DLSS 5 running on unsupported games delivers up to 90% better performance than the leaked version

By Jhet Borja Published

Nvidia's latest DLSS Neural Renderer, extracted from NBA 2K27 (again), is being tested on unsupported games and shows up to a 90% performance gain over the previous NR model.

GPUs
GeForce RTX 5090
Quad 8-pin mod protects the $8,500 RTX 5090 you can’t replace from melting

By Zhiye Liu Published

Redditor showcases a new quad 8-pin power-conversion kit for the 16-pin power connector on Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics cards.

GPUs
Nvidia reportedly insists the RTX 5090 isn't dead despite severe shortages and removed listings at multiple retailers

By Bruno Ferreira Published

Nvidia states that RTX 5090 isn't discontinued, only that supply is constrained — and yet the card is effectively gone from storefronts

GPUs
Gigabyte X870 Aorus Infinity Motherboard Review: limited-edition, designed for extreme overclocking, but pricey for X870

By Joe Shields Published

Gigabyte’s limited-edition 40th-anniversary X870 Aorus Infinity motherboard is designed for extreme overclocking, with everything you need for daily use.

Motherboards
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