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Close-up of a graphics card's cooling fans and heatsink

you're probably retiring your GPU way too early — here's how long they actually last

Owners with decade-old GTX cards still running fine say the real lifespan number isn't what upgrade-cycle marketing wants you to believe.

Ravi Malhotra · 3d ago · 6 min

An Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card standing upright against a dark background

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an RTX 5080 now costs more than an RTX 5090 did at launch. no, that's not a typo

Nvidia just hiked GPU prices for the third time this year, and for the first time it hit everything — not just the flagship.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 7 min

A hand holding euro and dollar banknotes, representing rising GPU prices

RTX 50 prices just jumped 59% in China — and the reason means it's coming everywhere. buy now or wait?

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.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 28 · 8 min

Two graphics cards installed in a desktop PC

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Two 3090s or one 5090? The answer isn't the one everyone gives

The dual-3090 build doesn't give you double the bandwidth for chat — and the reason has nothing to do with the cards. What the measurements actually say.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 21 · 11 min