MSI celebrates May the 4th with GeForce RTX 5080 Star Wars teaser, only 500 cards will be made

MSI is preparing a new limited edition GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card themed around The Mandalorian and Grogu. The company teased the card on May 4, also known as Star Wars Day, with a full reveal scheduled for May 20.

The GPU is tied to the launch window of Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first Star Wars theatrical release in several years.

Intel Arc Pro B70 gaming benchmarks

GUNNIR’s 32GB BMG-G31 workstation card averages 36% faster than Arc B580 in games and 46% faster in 3DMark.

Although it has been weeks since Intel announced the Arc Pro B70 GPU, hand-selected reviewers have not been eager to test the new card in games. So far, we have only seen simple tests confirming the expected result: the BMG-G31-based model is faster

This “PC” has 18,000GB memory

Bilibili creator Soda Baka has built a giant PC case large enough for a person to sit inside. The project scales up the RGB fish-tank PC trend, where users place figurines inside display cases, except here the creator becomes the figurine.

The video presents the build as part of Soda Baka’s giant prop series. She previously made oversized PC-related models, including a large GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card and a fan roughly

AMD Ryzen AI 5 435G appears with 6 cores and Radeon 840M graphics

First benchmark entry suggests AMD’s Ryzen AI 400 desktop APUs are moving closer to availability.

A first benchmark entry for AMD’s Ryzen AI 5 435G has appeared in the Geekbench database. The processor was tested on a JGINYUE B850M Snow Dream WIFI motherboard with 32GB of memory and Windows 11.

This is the non-PRO version of the Ryzen AI 5

Crimson Desert update adds RTX 50-only Dynamic Multi-Frame Generation, 69 boss rematches and new Re-blockade content.

Pearl Abyss has released Crimson Desert patch 1.05.00 across Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and the Epic Games Store. The Mac App Store version will receive the update later.

The PC version now includes NVIDIA Streamline SDK 2.11.1. This adds a new “ Dynamic Multi-Frame Generation ” option under Settings > Video. Pearl Abyss lists the feature

ASUS ROG Equalizer cable tested again, der8auer questions 17A rating

Der8auer has published a follow-up test of the ASUS ROG Equalizer 12V-2×6 cable. For this premium cable, ASUS claims it can reduce current variation and increase wire load capacity from 9.2A to 17A per wire.

The new test focuses on the internal bridge inside the cable which connects both the 12V and ground wires in two groups. ASUS appears to use this design to

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 benchmark lists HP system with 192GB memory

AMD’s Ryzen AI Max 400 series, codenamed Gorgon Halo, is expected to be a refresh of Strix Halo rather than a new architecture. The series first leaked in January, with early reports listing Zen 5 CPU cores, RDNA 3.5 graphics and the same FP11 platform. The main changes were listed as higher clocks and likely faster memory support.

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MSI refreshes AM4 lineup with new B550 DDR4 boards

MSI has added two more B550 motherboards to its AM4 lineup. The boards are the PRO B550M-P and PRO B550M-B , both micro-ATX models with DDR4 memory support and the AMD B550 chipset.

Although we learned about this update from Hardware & Co, it looks like MSI Japan already listed new B550 models in February, including the

RTX 50 GPUs reach 13.4% on Steam with laptops included

Valve has published its Steam Hardware & Software Survey for April 2026. The latest data shows continued growth for NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 series, which now has every desktop SKU listed in the main GPU table, including the GeForce RTX 5050.

RTX 50 GPUs take 10% of entire Steam HW survey list