Xiaomi has been slacking a lot with many phone releases with lacklustre hardware, Mi/Redmi/Xiaomi India sales have been declining due to this and increased competition which now sees phone launches every week at increasingly cut throat prices. With this new release of Turbo 4 it seems Redmi is now on a right path as this type of phone… Read More »
Recently my Zotac 3080ti Trinity OC died while playing FF16, the said graphics card was 3.5+ year old and was extensively used for gaming and local LLMs and was registered under extended warranty (total 5 years), in this article I will outline steps in case you wish to RMA your defective graphics card in India and share my… Read More »
A new Mini PC based on Radeon 8060S has been announced by the Chinese manufacturer FEVM, it is being targeted towards multi-use: gaming and LLM scenarios and can easily run 70B parameters locally on its 96GB Shared Memory. Powered by the cutting edge Strix Halo chip, featuring 16 Zen 5 CPU cores and 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores.… Read More »
24GB VRAM in a budget class is a dream for many LLM enthusiasts that wants to run these models locally, NVIDIA and AMD thus far decided to only allow max 16GB VRAM in budget category and keep the higher VRAM variants in the juicy enterprise segment, the few available ones in upper mid range too get scalped to… Read More »
16GB VRAM is what is needed at the minimum if you don’t want to run the crap tear local LLMs, with 16GB VRAM you can easily run 14B and 24B parameters models in q4/q6 quant thus having a local LLM that is usable. NVIDIA’s latest offering 5060ti is going to be just that, featuring 16GB VRAM and 448GB/s… Read More »
NVIDIA has just released the hardware update of the 60ti series, the most selling category and this time they have reduced prices when compared to the 4060ti which currently retails above INR 50k. I remember when 3060ti was launched it was around Rs 36,000 and RTX 3070 was around 43,000. Considering the performance improvements of Blackwell generation, the… Read More »
32GB VRAM and four QSFP 800G ports per PCIe card will allow LLM runners to get up-to 128GB VRAM pooling in a single machine, this is the newly launched p150a Blackhole LLM card from Tenstorrent, there is another 28GB model named p100a that has the same up-to 300W power consumption but doesn’t come with QSFP ports for memory… Read More »
Using the Nvidia G-Assist, now you can talk to your computer to control various PC features, it uses a small LM (Language Model) that sits locally on your computer and will generate responses in real time as well as control your PC hardware functions (System Fans, Lights, Core GPU controls etc), it is being built modularly so you… Read More »
DeepCool CH260 is the latest upcoming compact PC case that will fix the shortcomings of the CH160 case and will be compatible with wider GPUs like the Nvidia 5090 and the broad DeepCool Digital Coolers, it will support both mini-ATX and Micro-ATX form factor, SFX and Full Size Power supply both are compatible. Check out the DeepCool CH260… Read More »
If you are trying to launch FINAL FANTASY XVI and it shows the Splash screen as seen below and then nothing happens (Task manager will show the FFXVI.exe for couple of seconds and then it will exit) then this guide will help you, if you are reading this then you might already have tried all things like increasing… Read More »