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A developer repurposed an old small-form-factor PC named 'poppy' into a dedicated machine for local LLM training, upgrading its case and power supply to accommodate future multi-GPU setups. The projec…

A 10-year PC-building veteran reports that building your own PC is no longer cheaper than buying a prebuilt system, due to AI-driven price surges in RAM, storage, and GPUs. Across budget, midrange, an…

The cheapest 32GB DDR5 RAM kit now costs $374.97, up from under $100 a year ago, as AI demand continues to strain PC hardware supply chains. The price surge, tracked by PCPartPicker, has pushed the co…