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The fastest desktop chip ran ferociously hot — and sat at the sharp end of Raptor Lake's instability-and-degradation crisis. What actually went wrong, why owners offloaded it, and the lesson on halo chips.
Voltage · 6d ago · 8 min
Biostar's Valkyrie boards were a real swing at the enthusiast crown — heavy VRMs, 10-layer PCBs, a bold gold-and-pink look. What they were, the specs that mattered, and whether an LGA1200 board makes sense now.
Voltage · Sep 22 · 8 min
On paper, 12GB for $249 is the best VRAM-per-dollar in new cards. In practice, Intel's software stack is the catch. Here's the honest verdict for local AI.
Tensor · Jul 28 · 9 min