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The first 16TB M.2 SSD on Amazon costs as much as a car

Do you need a lot of storage? Well, then, you’re going to have to pay for it—and you’ll be paying a lot more than you would have a year ago, as “AI” data centers gobble up a bigger and bigger share of the industry’s output of memory and storage. But even the most lavish among us would probably wince at dropping nearly $16,000 USD on an M.2 drive, even if it does have a capacity of 16…
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Noctua’s first PC case is big, brown, and pricey

Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld reports on Noctua’s first PC case collaboration with Antec, the Flux Pro Noctua Edition featuring signature brown accents and premium cooling components. This large E-ATX case costs $400, more than double the…
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Corsair’s new low-profile keyboard makes me angry

Corsair, you’re killing me here. After a good showing at CES, your Stream Deck smashed into a mechanical keyboard proved me wrong: a little screen on a keyboard can make sense. And then you decided to do it again… but worse. In fact, the small LCD on the new Vanguard Air…
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DLSS 5 backlash: Nvidia’s CEO says gamers are ‘completely wrong’

Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defends DLSS 5 against user backlash, calling critics “completely wrong” about the generative AI graphics technology’s function. PCWorld notes the controversy stems from concerns that DLSS 5 applies an “AI skin” over game models rather than true enhancement. Huang clarifies DLSS 5 offers developers controllability…
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Gaming desktop PCs get plastic surgery in the RAM crisis

RAM is insanely expensive right now, and it’s likely to get more so in the coming months. In the face of hundreds of dollars needed to outfit memory for a decent gaming system, at least one supplier is turning to an older idea: dummy RAM. It’s the hardware equivalent of…
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Mislabeled Ryzen CPUs spotted in Chuwi and Ninkear laptops

Hardware specifications are generally trusted, if only because they’re hard to fake. But a recent batch of budget laptops from brands originating in China may have done just that, swapping in older, less-powerful AMD Ryzen CPUs and allegedly cheating customers. Chuwi and…
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Nvidia calls DLSS 5 the ‘GPT moment’ for graphics in PC games

Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Nvidia unveiled DLSS 5 with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering at its GPU Technology Conference, using AI to add photorealistic lighting and materials to games in real-time. PCWorld reports this technology aims to bridge the gap between rendering and reality, enhancing details like skin and fabric in major titles including Hogwarts Legacy and…
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AI is changing PC graphics. Microsoft wants DirectX ready

Games are increasingly being rendered using AI, so Microsoft is bringing AI into the way future graphics chips will render games. Microsoft introduced DirectX Linear Algebra as well as the DirectX Compute Graph Compiler into its DirectX programming interface on Thursday…
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AMD wants you to buy a $2,000 ‘agent PC’ just for AI

You already have a laptop or desktop PC, but now AMD thinks you need another one—an “agent PC” to support your main machine. AMD has responded to the growing success of OpenClaw’s AI agents with a new suggestion: customers should buy “agent PCs,” which would take…
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I turned a Raspberry Pi 5 into a real SSD-powered PC for less than $200

The Raspberry Pi 5 is several times faster than previous models of the compact and cheap computer. For less than a couple hundred bucks, you can have a computer that can do many tasks that previously required a regular PC, that consumes very little power, and for which the web is overflowing with exciting tutorials and projects you can take on. In this guide, I’ll first walk you through how to…
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