Hardware
SSD prices just doubled in two months — and gamers aren't why
DRAM and NAND prices are wrecking PC budgets everywhere, and the customer actually buying up the chips isn't you — it's AI data centers.
Aliteq Team · Aug 17 · 6 min
PC Hardware
GPUs, CPUs, builds and the silicon arms race · page 3
Hardware
nvidia's cheapest RTX 50 card just dodged the price hike wrecking everyone else
the 16GB version is up 88% since launch. the 8GB version barely moved. here's the real math if you're buying for local AI, not just gaming.
Aliteq Team · Aug 16 · 7 min
Hardware
your Citrix login page can be hacked without anyone entering a password — patch it today
CVE-2026-8452 lets an attacker with zero credentials overflow a buffer inside NetScaler and run their own code — and Citrix's advisory was so thin that even the researchers had to guess the CVE number.
Aliteq Team · Aug 15 · 6 min
Hardware
everyone's ignoring the $300 GPU that almost matches a $900 RTX 5070 — here's the catch
12GB of VRAM for around $300 sounds like the easy answer to Nvidia's price spike. It mostly is — you just have to fight the drivers a little.
Aliteq Team · Aug 15 · 6 min
Hardware
the RTX 5070 just hit $900. I ran the local-AI math and almost couldn't recommend it
Nvidia's mid-range GPU is up 36% in two months — here's whether it still makes sense for running models at home, or if $900 changes the answer entirely.
Aliteq Team · Aug 15 · 6 min
Hardware
a startup just landed a $400 million loan — and there's not a single Nvidia GPU behind it
General Compute just got the first-ever loan collateralized by AI inference chips instead of GPUs — a quiet signal the market is betting beyond Nvidia.
Aliteq Team · Aug 14 · 6 min
Hardware
Nvidia's flagship AI GPU just hit $16,000. I ran the actual math on whether it's worth it
The RTX PRO 6000 nearly doubled in eight months. Here's what your money actually buys against every real alternative for running big models at home.
Aliteq Team · Aug 14 · 8 min
Hardware
AI stocks just crashed 40-60% — nobody told the people actually renting GPUs
Nvidia's trading at its cheapest valuation in a decade. Meanwhile market reports said the price of renting a GPU by the hour nearly doubled this year. What the numbers show, including our own rental-price data.
Aliteq Team · Aug 13 · 7 min
Hardware
google just doubled the Pixel's storage — and quietly used the RAM crisis to explain it away
the Pixel 11 starts at 256GB instead of 128GB, for the same $899 as last year. that sounds generous until you realize why storage doubled right when memory got expensive.
Aliteq Team · Aug 13 · 7 min
Hardware
your next GPU is about to cost 30% more — and it has nothing to do with Nvidia
MSI just told investors gaming hardware prices are rising 15 to 30% this year, and the actual culprit is a DRAM shortage AI datacenters are causing, not GPU chips themselves.
Aliteq Team · Aug 13 · 6 min
Hardware
I switched from Nvidia to AMD and the graphics card wasn't the surprising part
Everyone benchmarks FPS. Nobody warns you that Nvidia's own control panel is the thing you'll actually resent.
Aliteq Team · Aug 13 · 6 min
Hardware
jensen huang's first-ever X post begged for open AI. three weeks later, nvidia delivered
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a 30-billion-parameter model with only about 3 billion active per token — Nvidia says that's why it runs up to 4x faster than comparable open models on a single consumer GPU.
Aliteq Team · Aug 13 · 7 min
Hardware
Meta's new AI model runs at home now — one $1,299 AMD card almost keeps up with a $4,700 Nvidia one
AMD's own numbers put its workstation GPU at 53 tokens a second on Meta's new 30B model. Nvidia's flagship does more — for over three times the price.
Aliteq Team · Aug 11 · 6 min
Hardware
Cisco's server controller scored a 9.8 bug that hands out root — exploit code is already public
CVE-2026-20200 lets a low-privilege, already-logged-in attacker take full root control of Cisco UCS C-Series servers through the web management interface — and the discoverer's own proof-of-concept tool is sitting on GitHub right now.
Aliteq Team · Aug 10 · 6 min
Hardware
nvidia built a 24GB RTX 5080 Super. then it vanished over a $60 memory chip
The card was reportedly finished and sitting with board partners — and Nvidia shelved the whole Super lineup anyway.
Aliteq Team · Aug 9 · 7 min
Hardware
that hotel wifi login screen you clicked through? it might be russian spies
Microsoft says a Kremlin-linked group has been hijacking hotel and conference Wi-Fi captive portals since May to install espionage malware on business travelers' laptops.
Aliteq Team · Aug 9 · 6 min
Hardware
cisco just patched three near-perfect 9.9 bugs in the box that runs your whole network
Three flaws in Catalyst SD-WAN and IOS XE score 9.9 out of 10 — and one of them lets an attacker reach files no matter how the device is configured.
Aliteq Team · Aug 8 · 6 min
Hardware
Someone's turning dead $500 GPUs into 22GB VRAM monsters — here's the catch nobody's mentioning
A Hong Kong shop is doubling old RTX 2080 Ti cards to 22GB of VRAM and selling them on eBay for about $500. I ran the actual math on whether that's a steal or a trap.
Aliteq Team · Aug 8 · 8 min