Building an AI workstation is rarely about buying the single fastest component on the market; it is about finding the specific "sweet spot" that fits your workload. Whether you are prioritizing VRAM capacity, PCIe lane availability, or thermal management, the right build depends entirely on how you plan to use your machine. The goal isn't just raw power, but the ability to run the tools you need efficiently.
This is the first article in a new AI Hardware series talking about the requirements for running AI Models and why paying attention to these things can help you build a better AI Workstation. If anything learning why a DGX Spark or Mac Mini work but, can also be really slow.
2026 marks the 30th year for Lexar and they started CES off with an announcement that they were going to be the global storage partner for the Argentina National Football (Soccer) Team and launched a number of AI focused storage devices.
According to CES 2026 material there were over 4100 exhibitors registered to attend along with several unknowns looking to take advantage of CES by hosting their own events in area hotels. It is not practical to see everything but with a good pair of shoes and a crisp Pepsi I attempted to do the impossible.
Pro Gamers Group was available at CES showing of some of the latest products available in their catalog including a number of ultra light mice, a racing chair and some rather impressive GPU waterblocks.
Hardware Asylum is once again at the forefront of hardware this time showing of their extreme overclocking skills with Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) at the Boise LAN Party and at a local tech conference called Hackfort.
At CES 2019 HyperX had several great products on display and two really caught our attention. The first was the HyperX Quadcast desktop gaming microphone with plenty of high-quality features to take on Blue and Razor.
ZOTAC was showing their ArcticStorm waterblock design at CES 2019 and it looks amazing. The block is a custom design unit with plenty of clear acrylic for viewing the coolant and RGB lighting effects.
The MSI Lightning is back, this time with a RTX 2080 Ti GPU and OLED screen across the top. Sadly there is a good chance this might be the only version any of us ever see.
For years Aorus (Gigabyte) has been one of my favorite destinations during trade shows and while at Computex they launched their line of gaming memory modules this year they cranked things up and have one of the best monitor implementations I have ever seen.
During the pre-show keynote Jensen Huang talked about a good number of things from Ray-Tracing technology, Laptops, Monitors and gave some in-depth details about how the new RT and Tensor cores actually work and make gaming better.
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