Three 8-Pin Cables Carried 900 Watts Into an RTX 5090
A stripped-down Galax RTX 5090 ran to 900W on three ordinary 8-pin connectors with the wires at 35 degrees C, and a second modder finally built the 16GB RTX 3070 Ti that NVIDIA never shipped.
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The DLSS 5 Back-Ports Show Where the Hardware Line Really Sits
Modders have pushed the leaked DLSS 5 runtime from Blackwell down to Ada, Ampere and now Turing. The frame rates say more about NVIDIA's likely support list than the ports do.
The Revived RTX 3060 Costs More Than a Faster Card
Two months after the RTX 3060 12GB came back, it lists above a faster RTX 5050. NVIDIA’s $279 billion in purchase commitments explains where the memory went.
The CMP 170HX Gives Back 56GB, and Hydra Lifts RTX 50’s Memory Ceiling
A GPL tool restores the HBM2e NVIDIA disabled on the CMP 170HX mining card, and Hydra's preview build raises RTX 50 memory clocks and power limits. What each one unlocks, and what it costs to use.