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Walmart shopper reportedly buys Nvidia RTX 5080 GPU at almost half-price
With graphics cards getting more expensive – particularly high-end Nvidia models – these bargains are even more eye-opening.
AMD graphics card makers rumored to be looking at more price hikes
A shift towards more production of 8GB graphics cards won't go down well with PC gamers, that's for sure.
I love DLSS 4.5, but I’m worried that it could actually be bad news for gaming – here’s why
Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 is incredible at enhancing image stability in games, but history suggests it will be abused by game developers.
Raspberry Pi is now 70% pricier — but there's some promising DDR5 news
After several months of dizzying price rises for DDR5 RAM, we've got what looks like a respite – but not one that applies to the Pi 5.
Could we see an Nvidia-powered handheld PC? These new SoCs might suggest so
I smell a new Nvidia handheld PC on the horizon, thanks to fresh chip teases from Jensen Huang, but let's hope I haven't jinxed it.
Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics card with a hole in it breaks world record
An RTX 5070 Ti graphics card with a hole in it wasn't just brought back to life – a YouTuber broke a GPU world record with it, too.
Costco is removing RAM from display PCs to halt a shoplifting surge
It used to be GPUs that might be shoplifted from display PCs on retailer shelves – now it's high-end RAM.
Zotac warns that graphics card makers could be wiped out by RAM crisis
The RAM crisis looms large in the PC hardware market, and now a graphics card maker has issued a warning for consumers.
