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A front view of the Gigabyte AMD RX 9070 XT gaming graphics card.
NVIDIA's rumored RTX 60 delay to 2028 could give AMD its biggest GPU opportunity in years

NVIDIA might accidentally make 2027 AMD's best year yet.

MSI Geforce RTX Graphics card inside a case.
The biggest scandal in GPUs never really went away, even though NVIDIA says it's fixed the problem

Four years later, one of the biggest GPU problems is still here

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT inside a gaming PC.
NVIDIA isn't worth considering when these older AMD GPUs are still such a great deal
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I would never consider NVIDIA when these AMD GPUs exist.

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An AMD RX 9070 XT graphics card that's been taken apart, showing dried thermal paste.
I took apart my 8-month-old $750 GPU to fix a factory defect no one talks about

Apparently, buying a brand-new GPU doesn't always mean you can skip the DIY repairs.

Palit NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU on display.
These are the cheapest GPUs that can run DLSS 5 (you probably own one already)

Despite its performance cost, you can run DLSS 5 on surprisingly affordable graphics cards.

ASUS Republic of Gamers NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU inside a gaming PC.
You're running PC benchmarks wrong, this is the easier and better way to do it

Before you panic over that benchmark score, there’s something you should probably know!

A white full-tower desktop gaming PC with a mATX case, large air cooler, and RX 6800.
I've built PCs for 20 years, and buying a prebuilt was my smartest move this year

I've built PCs for 20 years, and I'm telling you to buy a prebuilt this year

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Palit NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU on display.
There's a problem with DLSS 5, and it's not even the AI slop

The price of AI is out of control

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Rear I-O close-up with USB-A 10Gbps USB-C 10Gbps DisplayPort HDMI and 2.5G Ethernet ports.
DisplayPort isn't always the best choice—here's when HDMI wins

HDMI vs. DisplayPort isn't as simple as you think

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A closeup of an AMD RX 6800 XT Sapphire graphics card.
5 ways you're unwittingly killing your GPU

Your expensive graphics card truly deserves better.

The side of the EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0 graphics card sitting on a desk.
Still hanging on to an old GTX card? Here's how to put it to work

Your old Nvidia GPU is far from useless

An AMD RX 9070 XT Gigabyte gaming graphics card.
My $750 graphics card developed a huge hotspot problem—here's what I should've checked

Now I have to take it apart to fix it.

A  laptop with VLC side-by-side with MPC-HC video player.
This free VLC alternative for Windows keeps things simple without losing the essentials

MPC-HC is a better VLC alternative for Windows users who mostly want to open videos without any extra complexities.

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An AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT installed in a desktop PC.
Nvidia is all-in on DLSS, but AMD’s simpler GPU strategy is starting to look smarter

Actual hardware improvements feel better when you have to spend a lot of money

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Closeup of graphics card in ITX case
GPU undervolting isn't worth the hassle: Set a power limit to drop temps in seconds

A simple power limit can tame runaway temps and fan noise while keeping most gaming performance intact and stable.

An AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT installed in a desktop PC.
Why AMD's latest drivers make ditching NVIDIA actually worth it

And I say that as an NVIDIA GPU owner.

The EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0 graphics card sitting on a desk.
I stopped saving up for a new GPU after optimizing my CPU's graphics performance

Who has the money to buy a new GPU right now, especially when the CPU can help?

Two RTX GPUs in a home server.
I thought 16GB of VRAM was overkill until I started automating my work with local LLMs

I can never get enough VRAM these days.

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An AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT installed in a desktop PC.
I switched from NVIDIA to AMD, and one difference surprised me every day

I don't have to use two separate GPU utilities? Brilliant!

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Two video out ports on a dinged up old GPU.
I've started buying "broken" GPUs, and it's not because I know how to fix them

One gamer's trash is a self-hoster's treasure.

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