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 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 Memory Crunch Reaches Budget GPUs, and the Grey Market Picks Up a Soldering Iron
PC Partner says entry-level cards get scarcer and dearer through 2026, while modded RTX 3080s and a $25-per-gigabyte VRAM service show the second-hand market adapting faster than the first-hand one.
AMD’s Turn to Raise Kit Prices, While the Memory Curve Bends on Paper
AMD reportedly raises board-partner kit prices about 10 percent for August, just as TrendForce's forecast shows the memory price curve finally decelerating, on paper.
NVIDIA Reportedly Raises GPU Kit Costs, but Retail Prices May Not Move Immediately
A reported NVIDIA price increase covers GPU and memory kits using both GDDR7 and GDDR6, but the affected cards, regions and retail impact remain unknown.