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- How to Build a $2000 Home AI Rig in 2026: Used RTX 3090 Guide — Build a $2000 home AI rig in 2026: used RTX 3090, Ryzen 7 7700X on B650, 64GB DDR5, 850W Gold PSU, 2TB Gen4 NVMe — with real tok/s numbers. Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 11 min read
- Mac Studio M3 Ultra vs RTX 5090 for AI Inference in 2026 — Mac Studio M3 Ultra vs RTX 5090 for AI inference in 2026: unified memory reach, real tok/s numbers, power draw, and who should buy which. Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 11 min read
- Best Raspberry Pi Projects for Beginners in 2026 — Pi-hole, RetroPie, Home Assistant, MagicMirror², and a GPIO starter kit — the five Raspberry Pi projects beginners actually finish in 2026. Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 9 min read
- Best Single-Board Computers for Home Lab in 2026 — | Pick | Best For | Key Spec | Price Range | Verdict | |------|---------|----------|-------------|---------| | Raspberry Pi 5 8GB |… Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 10 min read
- Best Gaming CPUs for 2026: Why the Ryzen 7 9800X3D Leads the Pack — Public benchmarks compared the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 9950X3D, 14900KS, Core Ultra 9 285K and more. Real benchmarks, honest tradeoffs, and the… Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 11 min read
- Steam Deck OLED vs ROG Ally X vs Legion Go: 2026 Gaming Handheld Shootout — | Pick | Best For | Key Spec | Price Range | Verdict | |---|---|---|---|---| | Steam Deck OLED 512GB | Most buyers | 7.4" HDR OLED, 90 Hz… Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 10 min read
- Framework Desktop & Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Review: Best Strix Halo Mini PCs in 2026 — Framework Desktop defined Strix Halo. Here's how the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 actually runs 70B LLMs, plus the 5 best Amazon-available mini PCs… Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 11 min read
- Jetson Orin Nano Super vs Raspberry Pi 5: Real Edge-AI Benchmarks (2026) — Real tok/s on Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Phi: Orin Nano Super at 21.75 tok/s on Qwen2.5-7B; Pi 5 at 5.80 tok/s on Llama 3.2 3B. Full 2026… Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 11 min read
- RTX 5090 vs RTX 5080: Which Should You Buy in 2026? — RTX 5090 vs RTX 5080 head-to-head: real 4K FPS, local-LLM tok/s, power draw, and price-per-frame math from our benchmark database. Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 20 min read
- Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D: The 2026 X3D Buyer's Verdict — 9800X3D ($479 MSRP, ~$458 street): 8 cores, 96 MB L3, 5.2 GHz boost, 120 W TDP — the fastest pure-gaming CPU AMD ships. Single-CCD, single… Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 9 min read
- Running Llama 3.1 70B Locally: Hardware Requirements & Performance Benchmarks — | Pick | Best For | Key Spec | Price Range | Verdict | |---|---|---|---|---| | Dual NVIDIA RTX 3090 (used) | Solo devs, best value | 48 GB… Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 11 min read
- DGX Spark vs Mac Studio M3 Ultra: Which AI Dev Machine Wins in 2026? — DGX Spark vs Mac Studio M3 Ultra in 2026: Mac wins on inference (819 GB/s bandwidth, 512 GB ceiling); DGX wins on CUDA training. Real… Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 14 min read
- Best GPUs for Running Local LLMs in 2026 — 16 GB is the consumer floor — fits 8B models at FP16 or 13B at q5KM with headroom. Below 16 GB you quantize everything. 24 GB fits 32B… Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 11 min read
- GTX 1050 Ti in 2026: Performance, Use Cases, and Modern Comparisons — Evaluate GTX 1050 Ti performance in 2026 for 1080p gaming and crypto mining. Compare with modern GPUs like RX 6600 and RX 7600. Find out… Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 7 min read
- NVIDIA DGX Spark Review: Grace Blackwell vs RTX 5090 & Mac Studio M3 Ultra — Compare NVIDIA DGX Spark's 128GB unified memory and Grace Blackwell performance against RTX 5090 rigs and Mac Studio M3 Ultra. Real tok/s… Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 7 min read
- Ah Yes, 'Gaming' Laptops: The Hype vs. Reality — Gaming laptop performance, pricing, and long-term thermal reality compared using public benchmarks and enthusiast data — what the numbers… Mike Perry · 2026-04-24 · 7 min read
- Why Preassembled PCs Beat DIY Builds in 2026 — Skip the hassle: discover why preassembled PC builds are faster, more reliable, and just as powerful. Learn how to choose the best 2026… Mike Perry · 2026-04-23 · 7 min read
- How to Run a Public Website on a $10 ESP32 Without Servers — Learn how to run a self-hosted public website on a $10 ESP32 with no servers or software. Perfect for low-cost IoT projects and home labs. Mike Perry · 2026-04-23 · 7 min read
- Build a Magic Mirror 2 Smart Home Hub (2026) — A complete build guide for a Magic Mirror 2 smart home hub — two-way mirror + monitor + Raspberry Pi 4 running MagicMirror² with weather… Mike Perry · 2026-04-23 · 15 min read
- Build an 8-Node Raspberry Pi Cluster for Distributed Computing (2026) — A complete guide to building an 8-node Raspberry Pi 5 cluster with K3s Kubernetes, PoE networking, shared NVMe storage, and real workloads… Mike Perry · 2026-04-23 · 17 min read
- Build a PiKVM V3 Device for Remote Server Management (2026) — A complete guide to building a PiKVM V3 — a Raspberry Pi 4-based IP-KVM that gives you BIOS-level remote access to any server over a web… Mike Perry · 2026-04-23 · 14 min read
- Local AI on Raspberry Pi 5: Real Benchmarks for Llama, Phi, and Gemma (2026) — A complete tutorial for running Llama 3.2 1B, Phi-3.5 mini, and Gemma 2 2B on a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB with Ollama. Real tok/s benchmarks… Mike Perry · 2026-04-23 · 14 min read
- Build a RetroPie Handheld in 2026: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide — A complete build guide for a DIY RetroPie handheld using a Raspberry Pi 4, 5" HDMI LCD, 2500 mAh Li-Po battery, Adafruit PowerBoost 1000… Mike Perry · 2026-04-23 · 10 min read
- Best Raspberry Pi Alternatives for SBC Enthusiasts in 2026 — We tested the Orange Pi 5 Plus, Radxa Rock 5B+, LattePanda Sigma, Libre Computer Renegade Elite, and BeagleBone Black against the… Mike Perry · 2026-04-23 · 10 min read
- LattePanda Sigma Review (2026): The x86 SBC That Breaks the Pi Pattern — The LattePanda Sigma is ten times the price of a Raspberry Pi 5 and does things no Pi can. A full Intel Core i5 with 32GB of RAM, dual… Mike Perry · 2026-04-23 · 10 min read
- Orange Pi 5 Plus vs Raspberry Pi 5: The Honest Head-to-Head (2026) — The Orange Pi 5 Plus wins on paper across almost every spec — faster SoC, more RAM, an onboard NPU, HDMI input, a real M.2 slot. The Pi 5… Mike Perry · 2026-04-23 · 15 min read
- Raspberry Pi 5 8GB Review (2026): Still the SBC to Beat — A two-year retrospective on the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB: 2–3x faster than the Pi 4, new PCIe 2.0 lane for NVMe, higher power draw, mandatory… Mike Perry · 2026-04-23 · 14 min read
- Stable Diffusion vs Flux — which open image model wins in 2026? — Stable Diffusion has the ecosystem; Flux has the quality. Here's which model wins for which workflow in 2026, with VRAM budgets and… Mike Perry · 2026-04-22 · 12 min read
- Best GPU for AI image generation in 2026 — Flux, SDXL, SD 3.5 — Image generation in 2026 is a VRAM race: Flux.1 fp16 wants 24 GB, SDXL wants 12 GB, ControlNet adds 4-6 GB per adapter. Here's the ranked… Mike Perry · 2026-04-22 · 11 min read
- Best GPU for an AI rig in 2026 — the shortlist — RTX 5090 is the default single-card buy. 32 GB, mature CUDA, every runtime supports it day one. Mac Studio M3 Ultra is the outlier pick… Mike Perry · 2026-04-22 · 11 min read
- Best GPU for AI code generation in 2026 — Code-generation workloads are bandwidth-bound; the right GPU holds a 32B model in VRAM at q4 and pushes 25+ tok/s. Here's the shortlist in… Mike Perry · 2026-04-22 · 10 min read
- Self-hosting a Claude proxy — cache, rate-limit, and audit every request — Building a production proxy in front of Anthropic's Claude API: where to cache, how to rate-limit, what to log, and the three ways teams… Mike Perry · 2026-04-22 · 9 min read
- Building a period-correct Windows 98 gaming rig in 2026 — Chipset, CPU, RAM cap, video, sound, storage, PSU — the full recipe for a Windows 98 SE machine that runs in 2026 the way it ran in 2000. Mike Perry · 2026-04-22 · 14 min read
- GeForce4 Ti 4600 tuning guide — ForceWare, Detonator, and XP/98 driver pairing — Which ForceWare and Detonator versions actually ship working OpenGL for NV25, the AGP-aperture trap on Win98, and a tested overclock… Mike Perry · 2026-04-22 · 11 min read
- 9800X3D vs Core Ultra 9 285K — gaming vs productivity — Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K — MSRP, VRAM, TDP, synthetic scores, and real AI inference tok/s head-to-head. Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 3 min read
- RTX 3080 vs RTX 5080 — is it time to upgrade? — NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — MSRP, VRAM, TDP, synthetic scores, and real AI inference tok/s head-to-head. Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 3 min read
- RTX 5080 vs RX 9070 XT — NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT — MSRP, VRAM, TDP, synthetic scores, and real AI inference tok/s head-to-head. Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 3 min read
- M3 Ultra vs RTX 4090 for local LLMs — Apple M3 Ultra vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — MSRP, VRAM, TDP, synthetic scores, and real AI inference tok/s head-to-head. Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 2 min read
- RTX 4090 vs RX 7900 XTX — NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX — MSRP, VRAM, TDP, synthetic scores, and real AI inference tok/s head-to-head. Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 3 min read
- RTX 5070 Ti vs 4070 Ti SUPER — NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER — MSRP, VRAM, TDP, synthetic scores, and real AI inference tok/s… Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 3 min read
- RTX 5090 vs RX 7900 XTX — does AMD still matter? — | | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | |---|---|---| | Manufacturer | NVIDIA | AMD | | Family | Blackwell | RDNA 3 | |… Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 3 min read
- RTX 5080 vs RTX 4080 SUPER — one generation apart — NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER — MSRP, VRAM, TDP, synthetic scores, and real AI inference tok/s head-to-head. Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 3 min read
- RTX 5090 vs RTX 4090 — is the Blackwell upgrade worth it? — | | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | |---|---|---| | Manufacturer | NVIDIA | NVIDIA | | Family | Blackwell | Ada… Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 3 min read
- AI coding assistants ranked — Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Aider — Anthropic's CLI agent. Runs in your terminal, sees your whole repo, makes multi-file edits, runs commands, asks clarifying questions. Best… Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 2 min read
- Self-hosting an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway with LiteLLM — One API shape in your code. model="gpt-4o" vs model="claude-opus-4" vs model="ollama/qwen3:32b" — same client library, same request… Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 2 min read
- Building multi-agent AI orchestrators — LangGraph, DSPy, n8n, and picking the right one — LangChain's state-machine framework. Nodes are agents or tools; edges are state transitions. Best for: Deterministic workflows (this →… Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 2 min read
- RTX 5090 vs Mac Studio M4 Max for AI — which wins in 2026? — Max tok/s on a single fits-in-32GB model: RTX 5090 Runs the biggest models you can fit in consumer silicon: M4 Max (128GB) or M3 Ultra (up… Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 2 min read
- Best Mac for running local LLMs in 2026 — More unified memory wins for LLM work, not CPU core count, not GPU core count. Memory capacity determines which models fit; memory… Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 2 min read
- VRAM calculator: what can you actually run on your GPU? — At q4KM (the most common community quant), weight size is roughly params × 0.6 bytes: 8B model → 4.8 GB weights + KV cache + overhead → ~6… Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 2 min read
- 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP tuning guide — 2026 edition — Amigamerlin drivers, vcache fix, VSA-100 overclocking, and the FX_GLIDE_REFRESH_RATE environment variable that unlocks CRT-era refresh… Mike Perry · 2026-04-21 · 8 min read