GPUs

Chinese sellers put laptop GPUs on desktop cards and you shouldn’t buy it

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Chinese sellers put laptop GPUs on desktop cards and you shouldn’t buy it

If you’ve been following the PC hardware market, you know that GPU prices are on the rise again. So the cheap listing of a big Nvidia or AMD card is enough to warrant a second look when you’re a potential buyer. According to recent reports from Tom’s Hardware, the only card selling even close to … Read more

The GPU’s legacy PCIe slot is slower than it needs to be, but there’s no need to replace it.

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The GPU’s legacy PCIe slot is slower than it needs to be, but there’s no need to replace it.

PCIe 3.0 has been around for so long that seeing it on a PC today makes the whole platform feel ancient. Think about that for a second. The very first computer I built with an i7-3770K in 2012 had PCIe 3.0 support, since then we’ve moved on from PCIe 4.0 and now mainstream motherboards have … Read more