A forum discussion on Level1Techs explores using AI for game preservation, with user 'thro' arguing that current AI models cannot fully understand raw hexadecimal bytecode as entire applications witho…
NVIDIA's GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip modules and baseboards are appearing on eBay at prices below conventional PCIe H200 variants, prompting hobbyists to explore building custom HPC workstations from…
A Level1Techs forum user reports that running two AMD Radeon RX 9700 Pro GPUs on Windows with llama.cpp and Qwen 3.6 27B Q4_K_M can double token generation speed for complex prompts, reaching 37.8 tok…
A user on the Level1Techs forum asks whether local large language models can be run across both an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and a Radeon Pro R9700, noting the R9700's extra 12GB VRAM would bring combined…
Intel's Xeon 658X processor, paired with an ASUS W890 SAGE SE motherboard, fails to reach its advertised 4.9GHz boost clock under default BIOS settings, topping out at 4.3GHz, according to a user on t…
A forum user on Level1Techs asks whether two AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT-class 32GB GPUs (R9700) can run a large language model locally with 64GB VRAM, noting that models must fit on one GPU or be split acr…
A security researcher identified a vulnerability in bubblewrap (bwrap), a sandboxing tool used by Flatpak, that could allow escape from the sandbox, though the risk is limited to malicious Flatpak app…
A Linux novice reports that combining AMD's Strix Halo integrated GPU (Radeon 8060S) with an external Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti via Oculink for local LLM inference is problematic, with LM Studio failing to d…
A forum user on Level1Techs is building a 4U chassis to connect four air-cooled or eight liquid-cooled NVIDIA H100 GPUs to a Dell PowerEdge R7515 server via PCIe switches, using either a Broadcom PEX8…
A Level1Techs forum discussion advises that building a local AI rig with consumer hardware like an AMD 9700X and a Supermicro AM5 motherboard is a viable low-cost alternative to turnkey systems such a…
GMKtec's EVO-X3 AI workstation, featuring AMD Strix Halo, is shipping with delays and questionable VAT documentation, according to forum user ewook on Level1Techs. The user also questions whether addi…
A Minisforum BD895i-SE owner reports that a dual discrete GPU setup using a 10Gtek PCIe 5.0 x16 to dual MCIO 8i bifurcation card with retimer chip fails to enumerate both AMD AI PRO R9700 GPUs simulta…
AMD's Radeon AI PRO R9700 x2 graphics cards fail with Windows error Code 31 under Adrenalin drivers 26.5.1, 26.6.1, and 26.7.1, but remain stable for over 20 hours with driver 26.3.1, according to a L…
A Level1Techs forum user asked how to export a long ChatGPT conversation to Word or PDF while preserving formatting, and respondents recommended using Chrome's Ctrl+P print-to-PDF, asking ChatGPT to g…
A user on the Level1Techs forum asks whether the Ryzen AI Max 392 processor supports VFIO passthrough with vGPU splitting for running a Windows VM alongside a Linux host. The forum response indicates …
A Linux user seeking GPU upgrade recommendations for two machines, one with an RX580 4GB and another with an ancient 1GB card, has received suggestions from forum members favoring Intel Arc GPUs for t…
A system administrator on the Level1Techs forum is seeking training materials to understand and configure cgroups v2 and PAM resource limits for multi-user HPC systems, citing a lack of comprehensive …
A user on the Level1Techs forum asks for advice on adding a second Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU to an Asus TUF-GAMING B550M Plus motherboard for local large language model inference, citing physical…
A forum user on Level1Techs detailed a new LLM inference workstation built with four PNY NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs (384GB VRAM), an AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9975WX CPU, an ASUS Pro WS WRX90…
A forum user on Level1Techs claims to have verifiable proof that Google retains deleted AI prompts on its backend servers, violating user privacy and data retention laws. The user notes that Google of…