GIGABYTE Hikes GPU Prices By Up To 40%, Japanese Retailer Cancels Pre-Orders It Can No Longer Honor

The vendor not only increased the GPU prices significantly, but it also resulted in the cancellation of several existing orders.

The notice by CFD-BIZ confirms the report of NVIDIA raising the GPU prices. We have seen how drastic the price increase was for the GeForce RTX 50 series in China . We also heard reports that AMD raised the GPU prices for its RX 9000 series , which it delayed due to fear of losing GPU share to NVIDIA. However, reports confirm that both manufacturers have already implemented a

A notice titled 'GIGABYTE VGA Product Price Revision Notice' announces a price increase effective from August 1, 2026, with anticipated revisions of approximately 120% to 140%, affecting existing and future orders.

MSI Debuts DRACO EPIC Edition Hardware And Peripherals To Celebrate 40th Anniversary, Including RTX 5080 16G SUPRIM DRACO EPIC Edition

Several new special-edition components and peripherals have been launched to celebrate the company's 40th anniversary.

MSI has officially introduced the 40th Anniversary special edition components, which it showed off at the Computex 2026 event. MSI has been one of the most popular vendors that produces a wide range of products, including motherboards, GPUs, AIOs, PC cases, coolers, and peripherals, and has now launched its latest stack of "DRACO EPIC" edition products that comprises multiple hardware and peripherals

A custom MSI GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card featuring a dragon design and triple-fan cooling system.
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OpenAI Paints A Picture Of Utter Incompetence At Apple, Shows Apple Lawyers “Emailed The Wrong Person After Confusing Two Asian Last Names”

When Apple filed a damning lawsuit against OpenAI a few weeks back for supposedly stealing secrets related to a slew of upcoming consumer-oriented AI devices, we were led to believe that the maker of iPhones had a rock-solid case against OpenAI, replete with the proverbial smoking gun.

OpenAI's scathing response to Apple's lawsuit, however, has just demolished that fallacy, painting a picture of utter incompetence within Apple's labyrinthine halls instead.

Back in July, Apple filed what appeared to be a damning lawsuit


Redditor Snags iBUYPower RTX 5070 PC At Walmart Clearance For $800, Slashing $1,100 Off Its Usual Price

Another user went incredibly lucky with his purchase from his local Walmart store, getting nearly $1100 discount.

Not just Costco ; if you are lucky enough, you might be able to grab a gaming PC for extremely cheap from your local Walmart store. Walmart hosts items on clearance sales where you would see various items with deep discounts. This is exactly why the Reddit user u/Material-Junket214 was able to snag a powerful PC for way cheaper than its usual price.

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Battlefield Studios Roll Out Fix For Battlefield 6 Crash On RTX 50 Cards, Which Apparently Was Caused By A Weapon Attachment

The Battlefield 6 developer team has released a new update for the game, which should fix the driver crash issue for NVIDIA GPU owners.

Battlefield 6 was having issues with the NVIDIA GPUs, particularly the RTX 50 series cards for a while. A setup with RTX 50 GPU with maps such as Tsuru Reef was resulting in NVIDIA GPU driver crashes , due to which, the dev team recommended downgrading the driver to version 596.49. Although Battlefield Studios acknowledged the problem and announced that they are working

A slide with the heading 'STABILITY:' details the correction of an issue on PC where certain NVIDIA GPUs experienced driver crashes when changing attachments on the SOR-300SC, using Custom Search, or playing on maps with large bodies of water.

GTA 6 Panic Emptied November Calendars, But Danganronpa 2×2 Was Delayed Just So Its Creator Could Play It

GTA 6 's launch on November 16 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S is set to be one of the biggest game launches of all time , and every other video game publisher has done everything it could to launch their games as far from it as possible, leading to the most packed September and October in recent memory.

However, not every game delayed by Rockstar Games' highly anticipated open-world game had its release date moved for economic reasons. Danganronpa series creator Kazutaka Kodaka delayed Danganronpa 2x


SK hynix, In Collaboration With SanDisk, Unveils The New High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) Standard, Helping To Resolve AI Inference Bottlenecks, Targeting Up To 3TB/s Bandwidth

As AI accelerators face severe performance disparity between High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and SSDs, SK hynix and SanDisk have collectively introduced a solution that aims to resolve the performance gap with a new standard called High Bandwidth Flash (HBF). Both memory manufacturers aim to create an ecosystem where various enterprises can develop compatible products.

In a nutshell, HBF possesses attributes that allow it to be positioned between HBM and enterprise SSDs. Similar to HBM, HBF relies on multiple memory dies that have been stacked together, but instead of DRAM


16 GB GPUs Finally Take Over 8 GB GPUs In Steam Hardware Survey As Gamers Switch To Higher VRAM GPUs

Graphics cards with 16 GB VRAM have gained more popularity in the last month as gamers transition to 16 GB GPUs.

This was inevitable since 8 GB graphics cards have started to bottleneck performance in intensive titles where 8 GB VRAM doesn't supply enough juice to run games smoothly. For the last few years, we have seen how modern titles have started to gobble up a lot of VRAM, and even GPU manufacturers like AMD appear to be advertising their high-VRAM GPUs for "no-compromise" performance.

A table titled 'VRAM' shows 8 GB VRAM at 25.32% with a decrease of -0.32% and 16 GB VRAM at 25.90% with an increase of +1.40%.
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CAPCOM Defies Expectations With Onimusha: Way of the Sword, As It Ditches Linear Design To Open Up Chunks Of Kyoto

With Onimusha: Way of the Sword , CAPCOM is bringing back on PC , PlayStation 5 , Xbox Series X|S , and Nintendo Switch 2 a series that has been too long on hiatus. Although the playable demo sold the game to most fans already, despite its low challenge level (which will be addressed in the full game with difficulty sliders ), a new bit of information that has arrived thanks to an exclusive preview by PC Game r reveals how CAPCOM is going to defy expectations, featuring more open-ended


Rockstar Canned Midnight Club 5 with a London Map, Ex-Designer Says, as GTA Swallowed Every Rival Project

It's been nearly twenty years since Rockstar released Midnight Club: Los Angeles , the latest entry in the arcade racing Midnight Club franchise. Fans of the series have practically lost hope of seeing another installment; however, former Rockstar San Diego designer Kris Roberts revealed to Kiwi Talkz ( via Insider Gaming ) that a Midnight Club 5 project existed and was eventually canned by the label, which seemed to look down on the Midnight Club team due to its massively inferior popularity compared to Grand Theft Auto.

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