AMD pins Ryzen 9000 ‘failures’ on compatibility issues — BIOS update recommended to avoid boot problems
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D issues on ASRock motherboards have been caused by a BIOS issue, which has since been rectified.
RTX 5080 laptop GPU beats RTX 4090 counterpart — delivers 10% less performance than RTX 5090
RTX 5080 laptop benchmark results show only an 8% to 15% difference from the top-end RTX 5090 laptop.
Nintendo Switch 2 Is Official: Bigger, Faster, Cooler And Way More Storage
As expected, Nintendo provided a fuller reveal of its upcoming Switch 2 console during a special Nintendo Direct livestream event today. The hour-long event offered up additional details that were not disclosed during an earlier showcase trailer, including bits about the hardware design, special capabilities, pricing, preorder and release
PC Makers Should Take A Page From Puget Systems When It Comes To Tariffs
Buying or building a PC in 2025 has been no easy task, but Puget Systems is tackling tariffs with transparency. With both availability and pricing proving to be highly unpredictable, consumers have been left in the dark with what the short term status is of the current market. According to Puget, the recent tariffs have indeed impacted many
President Trump’s 25% tariff on aluminum sparks concerns over rising PC enclosure and GPU costs
PC vendors initially believed the 25% tariff applied only to raw aluminum and steel, but the policy also extends to finished products
Amazon reserves RTX 5070, RTX 9070 XT GPUs as Amazon Prime exclusives, to the dismay of scalpers
Club386 has reportedly discovered a selection of RTX 5070 and RTX 9070 XT graphics card listings over at Amazon reserved exclusively for Amazon Prime members.
MediaTek Unveils Kompanio Ultra To Turbocharge Chromebooks With On-Device AI
In case you somehow haven’t noticed it by now, there is an industry-wide effort to AI all the things. That includes Chromebooks (hello, Gemini), and to that end, MediaTek has unveiled a new Kompanio Ultra system-on-chip (SoC) to arm the platform with on-device AI capabilities. It’s MediaTek’s most powerful chip yet for Chromebooks, fueled
Adata’s XPG DDR5 Memory Hits A Blistering New Top Speed To Set A World Record
We’re still waiting for the first retail release of a DDR5-10000 memory kit (memory makers are trying to get there), but in the meantime, overclockers have repeatedly blown past that hurdle in a series of world records. The latest to do so is Hicookie, a professional overclocker and Gigabyte partner, who took a 24GB stick of Adata’s XPG Lancer
Chinese DRAM maker reportedly mulls DDR4 hike prices
Chinese memory maker CXMT is reportedly preparing to raise DDR4 prices after months of aggressive discounting, as demand stabilizes and major suppliers shift focus to newer memory types.
New tests cast a disappointing light on Nvidia’s RTX 5090 laptop GPU, suggesting that at today’s prices, RTX 5080 notebooks are a far better buy
On the hunt for a high-end gaming laptop? Nvidia’s RTX 5080 mobile GPU appears to be surprisingly close to the RTX 5090’s performance.