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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.

Voltage · Aug 27 · 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.

Voltage · 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.

Ledger · Aug 14 · 8 min

Hardware

The Best Mini-PC for Local AI in 2026 (Unified Memory, Honestly)

A book-sized box with 128GB of unified memory can run models no single consumer GPU can hold. The honest hub for the whole category — Strix Halo, Mac Studio and DGX Spark — and when a GPU still wins.

Voltage · Aug 4 · 10 min

AI

DGX Spark for local LLMs: fast at reading prompts, slow at writing replies

Same machine, same benchmarks, three months apart: prefill improved 27%, generation got slower on every model. Tokens per second for seven models, the $4,699 price, and who should actually buy one.

Tensor · Jul 21 · 11 min

Hardware

Nvidia's DGX Spark costs 2.4x a Strix Halo mini-PC. it barely beats it on the number everyone checks

both give you ~128GB of unified memory for local AI, and their memory bandwidth is almost the same — 273 vs 256 GB/s. so the $2,700 gap buys something else entirely. here's what, and who it's actually for.

Voltage · Jul 19 · 6 min