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AI demand spiked consumer GPU prices into a mid-2026 peak — and they're cooling off it now, unevenly. The current numbers vs MSRP, why the RTX 5090 won't budge, and what's actually worth buying.
Voltage · Sep 22 · 7 min
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.
Voltage · Aug 17 · 6 min
Everyone benchmarks FPS. Nobody warns you that Nvidia's own control panel is the thing you'll actually resent.
Voltage · Aug 13 · 6 min
Owners with decade-old GTX cards still running fine say the real lifespan number isn't what upgrade-cycle marketing wants you to believe.
Voltage · Aug 7 · 6 min
That is more than the RTX 5090's $1,999 launch price. We checked the launch figure, today's shelf prices, and what a plain RTX 5080 costs instead.
Voltage · Jul 31 · 6 min
MSI, PNY and Colorful raised RTX 50-series distributor prices by up to 59% over MSRP. The cause isn't greed — it's the same memory shortage that's been quietly inflating everything with a chip in it. Here's whether to buy now.
Voltage · Jul 28 · 8 min
Two 3090s give you 48GB, but not double the speed for chat, because llama.cpp's default multi-GPU mode makes the cards take turns. What the benchmarks say, rechecked in October 2026.
Voltage · Jul 21 · 11 min