MSI and Colorful raise Nvidia RTX 50-series prices in China by up to 59% across the entire lineup — change in distributer pricing suggests GPU price hikes are on the way

GPU prices seem to be on the rise once again with official distributor announcements in China hiking up the entire Blackwell lineup overnight. Compared to MSRP, we’re witnessing a staggering bump of up to 75% at the top-end.

Intel unveiled its iconic Core 2 Duo family 20 years ago — legendary chip dethroned AMD Athlon, restoring the chipmaker’s performance lead
Intel unveiled its iconic Core 2 Duo family 20 years ago — legendary chip dethroned AMD Athlon, restoring the chipmaker’s performance lead

Today marks 20 years since the first raft of Intel Core 2 Duo processors, codename Conroe, was launched.

AMD splits Zen 7 into three EPYC families for 2028 and starts selling server CPUs by the agent — Florence, Ferrara, and Fidenza to be applied across AI-focused product stack
AMD splits Zen 7 into three EPYC families for 2028 and starts selling server CPUs by the agent — Florence, Ferrara, and Fidenza to be applied across AI-focused product stack

The company named Florence, Ferrara, and Fidenza in its launch release, extended its annual CPU, GPU, networking, and rack cadence out to 2030.

Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for just $16 when you buy it with AMD’s brand-new 7700X3D — Ryzen 7 with an X870 motherboard, G.Skill Ripjaws, and an AIO for just $588
Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for just $16 when you buy it with AMD’s brand-new 7700X3D — Ryzen 7 with an X870 motherboard, G.Skill Ripjaws, and an AIO for just $588

Get a single stick of 16GB DDR5 RAM for just $16 when you buy it with a Ryzen 7 7700X3D and MSI Pro X870-P motherboard.

Chinese CXMT DRAM doesn’t look like the budget savior many were expecting — new modules enter the market, but prices still track the big three

Chinese retail listings indicate that CXMT-based memory modules are priced similarly to those featuring chips from the big three, despite expectations that they must be cheaper.

XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT drops to its lowest price of the summer — save $90 on AMD’s flagship RDNA 4 graphics card
XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT drops to its lowest price of the summer — save $90 on AMD’s flagship RDNA 4 graphics card

If you’ve been waiting for RX 9070 XT prices to fall, this $90 discount on XFX’s triple-fan Quicksilver model is one of the best deals currently available.

3D-printed F-14 Tomcat uses an FPGA recreation of the ‘world’s first microprocessor’ — CADC’s MP944 chip controls the fighter’s swing-wing system, among other things

An FPGA and embedded systems expert has recreated the US Navy’s F-14 Tomcat’s Central Air Data Computer (CADC) in an FPGA. It is demonstrated in a scale 3D printed model aircraft

AI enthusiast adds Nvidia Tesla V100 as loud as a lawnmower to gaming PC for $266 — 32GB of VRAM rig can run 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second
AI enthusiast adds Nvidia Tesla V100 as loud as a lawnmower to gaming PC for $266 — 32GB of VRAM rig can run 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second

A computing enthusiast has repurposed a very noisy and largely obsolete enterprise GPU (with lots of VRAM) for local LLM inference purposes.

Grab an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with Core Ultra 7 CPU and 32GB RAM for under $1,200 — Thermaltake’s View u2660T-170 slashed by 33%
Grab an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with Core Ultra 7 CPU and 32GB RAM for under $1,200 — Thermaltake’s View u2660T-170 slashed by 33%

Thermaltake has a no-brainer deal up on Woot right now where it’ll let you have an $1,800 PC for as little as 1,177. For that price, you’re getting an RTX 5060 Ti (8GB), a Core Ultra 7 265KF, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, and a nice ARGB case.

Game Compressor can save you hundreds of GB across your game library — as storage prices remain high, utility leverages Windows’ built-in LZX compression for substantial space savings

Game Compressor leverages Windows’ built-in LZX compression for substantial space savings and can save you hundreds of gigs across your game library.