A Modder’s RTX 4080 Was Enough To Play AAA Games, But Not For Running LLMs, So He Integrated NVIDIA’s Tesla V100 At A Throwaway Price To Run 27B AI Models

Running higher-quality AI models means your existing GPU will have to be equipped with a ton of VRAM to make the experience enjoyable. For one RTX 4080 owner, playing the most visually taxing and graphically demanding games might be a walk in the park, but for running LLMs, it’s a Herculean task. Wanting to accomplish both feats in a single gaming PC, a modder successfully ran NVIDIA’s Tesla V100 in his system, but encountered a few challenges along the way.

An NVIDIA Tesla V100 gets modded to a gaming PC to run LLMs and AAA games
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NVIDIA Trims Vera Rubin Memory as HBM4 Prices Threaten to Eat 29% of Every Rack’s Cost – Report

NVIDIA Corporation is significantly reducing the memory used by its Vera Rubin NV72 rack-scale AI system in order to address the high prices and the ongoing memory shortage, according to an analysis from GF Securities. The courage followed after NVIDIA signed long term memory agreements ahead of the shortage in the memory industry which allowed it to weather the storm that most technology companies had to face due to the production constraints stemming from high demand.

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 racks are among the most powerful AI systems in

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AMD Ryzen With Zen 7 Cores Could Be The Last “Zen” Family For AM5, As Zen 8 Likely Moving To AM6 With DDR6 & PCIe 6.0 Support

AMD's Zen 7 architecture might power the last Ryzen family on the AM5 platform, while Zen 8 could be the first on AM6 platforms.

The AM5 platform, first introduced in 2022, has seen three generations of Ryzen so far. The Ryzen 7000 "Raphael" series was the first, followed by Ryzen 8000G "Hawk Point", and the most recent, Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" series.

Next up, AMD will

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How to Properly Use Frame Generation Technologies ft. NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR, Intel XeSS

Frame generation (oftentimes abbreviated as “FG”) has quickly solidified itself as one of the most vital and hotly debated innovations in modern PC gaming. When implemented correctly and used properly, it can greatly enhance the smoothness of modern, demanding PC games, particularly on high-refresh-rate monitors. Unfortunately, it’s also very easy to misuse under many circumstances, by game developers and gamers alike. As such, we decided to write this guide to illustrate the most optimal ways of using frame generation in modern

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Uperfect GR14BU Portable OLED Touchscreen Monitor Review: Small But Versatile

I love OLED displays, and I am not shy to say they are the future. It's hard not to recommend an OLED display, especially when they are now abundant in the market. While major monitor makers are prioritizing high refresh rates, the latest OLED technologies, better HDR performance, and higher resolutions on conventional OLED monitors, Uperfect is trying to build the perfect catalog featuring only portable displays.

I have been testing Uperfect monitors for a while now, and almost every display has impressed me. I

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MoonShot CEO Says “OpenAI Didn’t Invent Anything New,” As Sam Altman Signs The Letter Calling For Open-Weight AI Models After The Fact And Under Pressure

It is wholly ironic that OpenAI, a company presumably founded on the principle that AI should be openly accessible to everyone, had refused to sign a letter advocating for open-weight AI models, with Sam Altman only conveying his support after the fact and under immense public pressure.

At the same time, the CEO of Moonshot, a company that just unveiled the Kimi K3 open-weight AI model, one that seriously endangers the moat that both OpenAI and Anthropic were meticulously building around their proprietary models, has just issued


The Lightweight And Robust ASUS Vivobook S16 Packs Sufficient Firepower Underneath The Hood With Its Snapdragon X2 Elite, Now $170 Off Amazon

Qualcomm significantly raised the bar with its Snapdragon X2 Elite , enabling Windows 11 laptops to become even lighter while packing incredible compute and AI performance. To see all of its capabilities inside the ASUS Vivobook S16 will be an opportunity that few buyers can entertain, but today is your lucky day because Amazon is slashing $170 from the total, dropping the price to $1,429.99.

There are several models of the Vivobook S16, so to clear up the

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NVIDIA Inked A $500 Billion Agreement With SK hynix, And Then Jensen Huang Asked For “One More Beer”

South Korea's President led an AI summit in San Francisco on Friday, and the venue became an epicenter of deal-making, with at least $750 billion worth of long-term agreements (LTAs) and MOUs inked within the span of just a few hours, and was followed by a 'family dinner' attended by representatives from NVIDIA, Broadcom, Microsoft, Samsung, SK hynix, Hyundai Motor and Naver.

Under the terms of this agreement, NVIDIA will get a " co-develop opportunity


20 Years Since AMD’s $5.4 Billion ATI Acquisition: The Deal That Shaped Radeon, Consoles, And AMD’s AI Future

The company has come a long way since its acquisition of ATI Technologies in 2006. This transformed it from a CPU maker to a full-fledged computing giant.

Twenty Years Later, the ATI Acquisition Remains AMD's Most Important Milestone, Which Helped in Driving Innovation from Radeon Graphics to AI Accelerators

On July 24, 2006, AMD announced one of the biggest acquisitions in semiconductor history by acquiring ATI Technologies in a deal worth approximately $5.4 billion. At that time, it

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Samsung’s Advantage Over TSMC As A Foundry Rival Expands Beyond The 2nm Process, Helping It Ink Multi-Billion-Dollar Agreements; Has Potential To Outgrow Its Competitor

TSMC is the undisputed king of the global semiconductor market, and to extend its lead, it has succeeded in developing cutting-edge lithography and advanced packaging. Samsung certainly has a lot of ground to cover in this aspect, but its strengths lie in being able to secure partnerships beyond its 2nm contracts, which have ultimately led to a mammoth $200 billion agreement with Broadcom to build next-generation AI infrastructure over the next five years.

Given that memory and storage have already established themselves as the leading revenue