AMD Denies Warranty On Dead Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Blaming Substrate Swelling After GIGABYTE Cleared The Motherboard Of Any Faults

For the user, nothing was more confusing than reading the GIGABYTE report that indicated BIOS curruption.

We have reported dozens of incidents relating to Ryzen X3D chips dying on 800-series motherboards. AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D has remained the most affected CPU of all, but previous-gen Ryzen processors are also prone to such damage. In some cases, physical damage was visible on the chip itself, but in others, the CPUs died without showing any signs of damage.

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PlayStation 6 vs Xbox Project Helix Won’t Be A Graphics War, As Projected 30% Gap Collapses Into 4K Framerate Race

The difference in power between the PlayStation 6 and the Xbox Project Helix is expected to be roughly 30% in favor of Microsoft's next-generation console , but in real-world scenarios, according to an early analysis from known leaker Moore's Law is Dead , this difference will only translate into a "framerate" war between the two systems, with little to no difference in terms of image quality.

Speaking during a recent livestream, the leaker conducted an early analysis of the performance difference based on the


Bernstein Warns NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin Racks Will Hit $9.1 Million as HBM4 Prices Triple to $53 Per Gigabyte

Investment bank Bernstein believes that memory prices will jump as NVIDIA's Vera Rubin AI chips start to ship in volume. Memory prices have surged as part of the current AI buildout, as the chips become another constraint apart from the technology used to package the AI GPUs. Bernstein believes that prices for the next and fourth generation high bandwidth memory (HBM4) chips could sit at $53 per gigabyte in 2027, with NVIDIA choosing to pass the costs on to its customers.

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A table titled 'Nvidia NVL72 Bill of Materials' compares the costs between GB300 and VR200, highlighting a 435% increase in memory costs from $373,939 to $2,001,600, with a total cost difference of 95%.

Marvel’s Blade at Arkane Lyon Reportedly Dead, Jeff Grubb Hints Days After Xbox Showcase No-Show

Xbox fans were certainly hoping to see at least a new teaser for Marvel's Blade game during yesterday's Xbox Games Showcase 2026 , but that wasn't the case, and now, there might be even worse news. Towards the end of the XBOX Games Showcase 2026 | Giant Bomb Talks Over stream , insider Jeff Grubb offhandedly agreed with a comment that Marvel's Blade game might be dead . It didn't sound like a joke, though it's hard to

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Playground Games Puts Fable’s Order of the Hero Post-Launch Story DLC Behind a $99.99 Paywall as Modest PC Specs Surface

With the announcement of Fable' s release date during the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 , Microsoft and Playground Games also opened pre-orders for the game. That's how we learned that a story-driven expansion titled Fable: Order of the Hero will arrive sometime after launch.

The developers described it as rich in a narrative that will immerse players in the mysteries of a sinister, ancient cult concealed within the treacherous allure of Albion. Fable: Order of the Hero introduces a fresh region teeming with peril

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Nintendo Switch 2 Maintenance Hints at Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Reveal, With New Wario Land Also Quietly Lining Up

Now that the PlayStation State of Play and Xbox Games Showcase have aired, Nintendo is the last major manufacturer left to host a traditional Summer presentation to reveal what is launching on the Nintendo Switch 2 in the near future. According to reliable insider Nate the Hate , a Nintendo Direct that is likely to reveal the Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake rebuilt from scratch will be hosted this week , and some recent happenings heavily suggest this will indeed be the case.

As spotted on the Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit , Nintendo delayed a


AntGamer Launches 1000Hz And RGB Mini LED Gaming Monitors Along With New High-End VA, IPS, And OLED Displays

The Chinese monitor brand has launched several new displays for gamers, headlined by the new FHD 1000Hz gaming monitor.

Popular monitor maker AntGamer (sub-brand of HKC) has finally debuted its first-ever 1000 Hz FHD gaming monitor called ANT25ASF . The monitor was announced a couple of months back , and before AntGamer could launch its newest flagship TN monitor, many monitor makers had announced their own 1000 Hz models that boast FHD resolution.

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Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember Stuns Xbox Showcase, but Switch 2 Port in Early 2027 Steals the Spotlight

This year's Xbox Games Showcase was packed with updates for already announced games like Fable and Halo Campaign Evolved as well as new announcements for titles that are not far from release. Among them was the surprising announcement for Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember , a follow-up to the action RPG developed by Team NINJA released in 2023 that will mark the debut of the studio's "Masocore" genre on a Nintendo console .

At the time, details on the new entry in the series are


LIAN LI Cracks the Front-Glass Airflow Problem With LANCOOL 4 at Computex 2026, Alongside a Workstation Beast and Refreshed O11s

At Computex 2026, LIAN LI launched a barrage of new cases, including some that were previously teased at CES earlier this year.

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AMD’s Radeon RDNA 5 Gaming GPUs Slip to Late 2027 or Early 2028 as Memory Shortages Choke the PC Market

AMD's next-gen Radeon GPUs based on the RDNA 5 architecture are still far away from launch as memory shortages grip the PC segment.

The Radeon RX 9000 GPUs based on the RDNA 4 graphics architecture launched last year. This year, AMD launched the Radeon RX 9070 GRE for gamers, still based on the RDNA 4 architecture. While the new card aims to provide gamers with a good 1440p solution, the majority of those who have been waiting for next-

AMD Unveils Radiance Cores, Neural Arrays & Universal Compression For Next-Gen RDNA GPU Architecture: Faster RT, Better Upscaling, & Lower Bandwidth Needs 1