Tag: Graphics Cards

This is the ugliest GPU I’ve seen in a long, long time and weirdly I think I want one

This is the ugliest…

Look, I’m not usually one to jump on the graphics card aesthetic bandwagon too quickly. That’s in part because…
Expert criticizes Gigabyte’s alleged use of ‘viscous paste with questionable long-term performance’ instead of tried and tested GPU cooling solution

Expert criticizes Gigabyte’s alleged…

Users have shown Gigabyte cards are leaking some of the thermal gel used to keep their memory/VRM cool when…
Chinese repair centre has received 7 melted 12+4-pin Nvidia GPUs in just the past two days alone

Chinese repair centre has…

YouTube channel, 修电脑的张哥, roughly translated to Zhang the Computer Repairman, has posted a video this morning because of the…
Here’s another gizmo to prevent your graphics card from melting – wouldn’t it be nice if 12+4-pin connectors weren’t a cause for concern at all?

Here’s another gizmo to…

Power supply manufacturer Super Flower has launched a new accessory that sits between a graphics card and its power…
One day the silicon in this $7000 Asus RTX 5090 will be worthless, but you’ll still have a whole 6 grams of solid gold to make up for it

One day the silicon…

Graphics cards are very expensive these days. Hardly news, of course, and the most powerful of these have been…
AMD’s upcoming RX 9060 XT GPU listed on Amazon for a depressing $449 for the 8 GB version and $529 for the 16 GB option

AMD’s upcoming RX 9060…

AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 9060 XT is meant to be about accessible gaming performance when it arrives, probably within…
One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia’s graphics cards so they can be bricked if they end up in China

One US politician wants…

There’s a very strange thing that happens when an industry starts to become incredibly relevant to national security: There’s…
Gigabyte’s thermal gel ‘is crawling out’ of place on some RTX 50-series cards

Gigabyte’s thermal gel ‘is…

Writing about hardware is an often humbling experience. More recently than I’d like to admit, I popped open a…
Intel Arc Celestial discrete GPUs have hit pre-silicon validation and that makes me a little more hopeful for their eventual launch

Intel Arc Celestial discrete…

The discrete version of Intel’s upcoming Arc Xe3-based GPU line, Celestial, took a larger step towards full production as…
RTX 5090 not dead, says Nvidia—but it’s mysteriously vanished from the company’s official marketplace

RTX 5090 not dead,…

Rumours have been circulating as of late that Nvidia has halted production of its flagship RTX 5090 graphics card,…