Noctua teases black NF-A12x25 G2 fan ahead of Computex 2026

Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 chromax.black moves closer to launch

Noctua has started teasing a blacked-out fan, and all signs point to the NF-A12x25 G2 chromax.black.

The company has not named the product in the teaser yet. However, Noctua’s current roadmap already lists the NF-A12x25 G2 chromax.black for Q2 2026. This places the launch in the same window as

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Blender Cycles has issues with AMD Adrenalin 26.5.1 after ROCm runtime change

AMD Adrenalin 26.5.1 breaks Blender Cycles HIP rendering, Blender 5.2 fix planned

I received a tip to Blender forums discussing a bug with recent AMD drivers. Right off the bat it seems that the issue is not exactly caused by the Radeon driver itself, but it definitely contributed to the issue. The new driver has no ROCm6 runtime causing many issues for users. The driver switched to the newer ROCm 7 runtime.

Blender users with AMD Radeon GPUs are reporting crashes, broken GPU denoising,

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Valve reservation code reportedly references four Steam Machine packages

Steam Machine package IDs appear in Valve reservation system update

Steam Machine may use the same reservation system as the Steam Controller, based on code tracked by SteamTracking. A recent Steam community JavaScript update added reservation-related fields and includes package IDs tied to Valve hardware. The same block includes four Steam Machine package IDs: 1629447, 1629446, 1629458, and 1629460 . It also includes two Steam Frame packages

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 returns near MSRP with $554 Amazon offer

PowerColor Hellhound RX 9070 becomes cheapest US listing

PowerColor’s Radeon RX 9070 Hellhound is listed at $554.03 on Amazon, down from the original $719.99 listing (this was the price until May 4 and has been going down ever since). Curent price puts the card only $5 above AMD’s original $549 MSRP for the non-XT Radeon RX 9070.

According to PCPartPicker, this is currently

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Fake DDR5 SO-DIMM modules spotted with dummy plastic chips and fake labels

Fake DDR5 SO-DIMM spotted with dummy chips

Fake DDR5 memory modules appear to be circulating through Japanese second-hand marketplaces. The warning comes from X user TAKI, who says a friend purchased a DDR5 SO-DIMM that looked normal at first glance.

After removing one of the memory chips and cutting it open, the module turned out not to contain real DRAM silicon. TAKI first described the parts as plastic, but later corrected this and said the material was likely fiberglass.

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Sony is telling PS4 owners to buy a PS5 for GTA 6

Sony tells GTA 6 wishlisters to get a PS5 before launch

Sony has started sending upgrade emails to PlayStation users who still do not own a PS5. The message is tied directly to Grand Theft Auto VI, which is now scheduled to launch on November 19, 2026.

The email reportedly says: “Grand Theft Auto VI is on your wishlist. Get a PlayStation 5 today to be ready for when Grand Theft Auto VI launches on November 19, 2026.” This appears

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$200 NVIDIA V100 server GPU mod beats RTX 3060 in local LLM test

Used NVIDIA V100 server GPU becomes low-cost local LLM accelerator

Hardware Haven has tested one of the stranger GPU setups we have seen recently. The creator bought an NVIDIA Tesla V100 in SXM2 form factor and installed it onto a PCIe adapter card, turning a server accelerator into something that can run in a normal desktop system.

To be honest, I had no idea that there were SMX to PCIe adapters like that or that they would just work. The V100 is not

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AMD DGF SuperCompression cuts geometry storage size by up to 22%

AMD’s DGF SuperCompression reduces asset size for future GPU support

AMD has released DGF SDK 1.2, adding a new feature called DGF SuperCompression . The update is aimed at reducing the storage footprint of geometry data used by Dense Geometry Format, AMD’s block-based compression format for dense meshes.  This is a follow up to our previous coverage from last year .

Dense Geometry Format, or DGF, is designed for future GPU architectures with direct hardware support. AMD explains this as a hardware-friendly format for

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Creator reports melted ASRock RX 9070 XT connector, his RTX 4090 also melted two years earlier

TerraWare PC reports melted ASRock RX 9070 XT power adapter

TerraWare PC has reported a melted 16-pin power connector on an ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi. The creator said the connector melted while he was capturing footage for an upcoming YouTube video. The card is one of the few Radeon RX 9070 XT custom models using a 16-pin power input instead of traditional 8-pin connectors.

According to details visible in that video, the card was used with an

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Jensen Huang told Elon Musk DGX-1 had demand “from all over,” 10 years later said no one wanted it except Musk

Jensen Huang’s DGX-1 story gets new context

© Elon Musk

A 2016 email between Elon Musk and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was released in late April as part of the Musk v. Altman court exhibits. The emails were compared the email with Huang’s recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, where he told a different version of the DGX-1 launch story.

First DGX

DGX-1 was NVIDIA’s first dedicated deep learning system, a complete AI training machine built around Tesla P

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