Category: Content Creation
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How the Wrong Motherboard Leaves Lakhs of Hardware Sitting Idle: PCIe Lane Budgets Explained
If you’re currently shopping for a workstation with multiple GPUs, you’re likely trying to linearly scale your workflow by loading bigger models or cutting render times. However, we frequently see custom multi-GPU builds fall far short of expectations. We see that three GPUs are pegged at 100%, while the fourth sits idle, waiting. The culprit…
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Engineering a High-Throughput Storage Server for KVN Productions
KVN Productions is the powerhouse studio behind Toxic, one of the most highly anticipated and a lot of other high-budget productions in Indian cinema. With a massive scale comes an equally massive technical footprint. As post-production ramped up, the studio’s internal VFX and animation teams hit a critical infrastructure bottleneck: their storage solution could not…
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Does a second GPU actually save you time in DaVinci Resolve?
Have you ever found yourself nodding at a client, saying “just one more hour,” knowing full well your machine is choking on a 4K timeline? Or maybe you’re three hours deep into a grading session, and the moment you add temporal noise reduction, your playback drops to 3 frames per second. That hiccup is money…
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Building a Mini-Render farm with four RTX 5090 GPUs
The Client Our client operates as a “studio of one.” They are a highly specialized solo 3D artist tackling enterprise-grade workloads. While the exact nature of their work is a secret, they compete at the highest tier of the industry, producing visuals that require immense compute power, putting them in direct competition with fully staffed…
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8GB vs 16GB VRAM for Video Editing in 2026: Is it Worth the Extra Cost?
Historically, graphics cards didn’t matter much in video editing, as most software was designed to lean heavily on the processor. However, by 2026, every major editing suite is now optimized to make use of the GPU in one way or another. And with the market price for 16GB VRAM cards climbing, editors are facing a…
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GTC 2026 Highlights | Everything you need to know
It’s no surprise that like all things in 2026, GTC was all about AI. Nvidia showcased their advancements in data center hardware along with the product of their “acquisition” of Groq chips and also an entirely new genre of DLSS. DLSS 5 With the announcement of DLSS 5, Nvidia wants to bring real-time photorealistic graphics…
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How much electricity does your Gaming PC use?
A high-end PC is no longer “just a PC.”In power terms, it behaves like a mid-range household appliance. Once you look at the numbers, the picture becomes simple and predictable. This is the only lens that makes sense when you’re talking about a 5090-class GPU, a top-tier processor, and multi-hour daily usage. The Power Draw…
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How AMD’s Radeon AI Pro 9700 Breaks the VRAM Bottleneck
Every new GPU generation arrives with the same promises of faster speeds, smarter AI, better performance. Yet creators still hit the same wall: memory. Not in compute power, not in raw speed, but in VRAM. For years, 16GB has quietly become the new ceiling. Try training models, upscaling video, or rendering detailed 3D scenes, and…
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The Ultimate PC Upgrade Guide for Editors
(Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Blender, etc.) Introduction So you want to upgrade your PC, but can’t decide what to upgrade first? You’re not alone. Editors face this dilemma constantly — because every component upgrade advertises “better performance,” but fails to deliver. Let’s sort this out. We’ll start with the upgrades that have the…