Creative’s new Sound Blaster AE-X PCIe sound card is now listed in Europe. The card appears at €189.90 in Germany , €194.90 in Italy and 774.05 PLN in Poland , while the Chinese listing puts it at 1269 RMB .
The Sound Blaster AE-X uses the ESS ES9039Q2M dual
ASUS has listed a new Intel Z890 motherboard under its TUF Gaming series. The TUF GAMING Z890-BTF WIFI7 is now shown on the company’s official website, confirming that ASUS is preparing another LGA1851 board with its hidden-connector layout. The dedicated product page is live, but the full specification page does not appear to be publicly exposed yet.
The board uses
NVIDIA is adding eight games to GeForce NOW this week, with Forza Horizon 6 now available to stream and 007 First Light set to join the service at launch.
The new GFN Thursday update also includes a launch offer for GeForce NOW Ultimate. Members who buy a 12-month Ultimate membership by June 10 can redeem 007 First Light and play it through the cloud when the game launches on May 27.
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Following yesterday’s leak , AMD has now confirmed the full specifications for its Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 series, the workstation and commercial PC refresh of its Ryzen AI Max platform. The new lineup includes three SKUs: Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, Ryzen AI Max PRO 490 and Ryzen AI Max PRO 485. So yes, that’s PRO series only.
All three processors support up to 1
MSI’s upcoming Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld has now appeared in Australia. Retailer Scorptec lists two SKUs for the same Void Purple handheld, one standard model and one Launch Pack.
The standard model is listed as MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ CG3EM-010AU. It features Intel Arc G3 Extreme , 32GB LPDDR5X memory, 1TB SSD, an 8-inch FHD+ 120
Intel’s upcoming Crescent Island accelerator may have more memory bandwidth than previously confirmed. According to Bionic_Squash, the Xe3P-based data-center GPU is expected to support LPDDR5X-9600 memory . This configuration should reach around 1.5 TB/s of memory bandwidth.
This would line up with the PCB layout that leaked earlier this week. The board shown by YuuKi_AnS appears to
NVIDIA has released firmware version 1.1.6 for G-SYNC Pulsar monitors. The update improves Pulsar operation in the 100 to 180 FPS range and fixes several display and input-switching issues. The changelog was shared by Jacob Freeman and is also listed on NVIDIA’s support page.
The update is available through NVIDIA’s browser-based G-SYNC monitor update tool. NVIDIA lists support for the Acer Predator XB
Valve has released SteamOS 3.8.5 Beta, another “Second Clutch” update for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels.
The main non-Deck change is a fix for ASUS ROG Ally systems. Valve says previous SteamOS 3.8 builds had a regression where controls could misbehave after the device resumed from suspend.
Valve also lists further improvements to video memory management on discrete GPU platforms . This is relevant to
GeForce RTX 5090 pricing appears to be moving higher in South Korea. Hardware leaker Harukaze5719 reports that the ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 5090 OC increased from 7.59 million KRW to 7.99 million KRW in
First modern GPU from China to offer a wide range of game support at launch, but it needs drivers updates and a pricing change.
Chaowanke has published one of the first gaming reviews of the Lisuan LX 7G100, a 12GB consumer graphics card based on China’s self-developed TrueGPU architecture. The tested card is the Founder Edition model, marked as unit No. 55.
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