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Hardware

there's a $3,700 GPU with more VRAM than a $4,700 RTX 5090 — and almost nobody running local AI has heard of it

I priced out every rung of the local-AI hardware ladder this week. One tier is quietly the best deal on the list, and one isn't worth it at any price.

Ravi Malhotra · 4d ago · 9 min

Hardware

Everyone's buying $4,700 'AI desktops' right now. A lab test just showed most people need way less

StorageReview ran real benchmarks on every local-AI desktop you can buy in 2026 — and the winner isn't what most shoppers assume.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 18 · 7 min

Deals

I priced a DIY local-AI PC against 3 prebuilt AI boxes — the GPU price spike changed the winner

Building around a single GPU used to be the obvious move. With cards jumping 39% in two months, the math on prebuilt AI appliances just got a lot more interesting.

Nadia Rahman · Aug 14 · 8 min