GALAX has introduced two black versions of its GeForce RTX 5070 Ti HOF OC LAB graphics card. The new Black Soul series consists of the standard Black Soul and the higher-clocked Black Soul X.
The cards are effectively black versions of the white HOF OC LAB models already available from GALAX. The company has changed the cooler, backplate, heatsink fins, heat pipes and PCB to an
HWiNFO v8.51-6045 Beta is now available, one day after we reported that per-chip GDDR6 monitoring was being prepared for Radeon GPUs. The release adds separate VRAM temperature readings for AMD Navi GPUs instead of relying only on a combined memory junction value.
The HWiNFO creator confirmed that the software supports all Navi GPUs:
AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D is now available for $333.99 on Amazon US. The processor is sold and shipped directly by Amazon, with free returns included.
Amazon’s price tracker shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has ranged from $333.99 to $365.99 over the past 90 days. The
Sandisk and SK hynix have published the first technical specification for High Bandwidth Flash through the Open Compute Project. The companies began working on the standard in February, with Google and Tenstorrent later joining the HBF consortium.
HBF uses vertically stacked NAND flash to provide more capacity and bandwidth close to an AI accelerator. It targets inference workloads where large models require more memory than the HBM installed alongside GPUs and other processors can provide.
The specification
MSI has announced a limited-edition GeForce RTX 5080 SUPRIM as part of its 40th-anniversary product lineup. The DRACO EPIC EDITION was first shown at Computex 2026 and will soon be released alongside matching PC hardware and peripherals.
The GeForce RTX 5080 16G SUPRIM DRACO EPIC EDITION uses a dark blue and gold design
Bazzite has added several NVIDIA-specific power-management changes to its testing branch. The updates target dynamic GPU power control and system sleep behavior on PCs using NVIDIA graphics.
The changes add dynamic power-management rules and a new NVIDIA power configuration file. Bazzite also ensures that the required NVIDIA services are enabled and adds extra modprobe options for sleep. These changes first appeared in testing build 44.20260801.
DICE has confirmed that Battlefield 6 update 1.4.1.5 fixes the driver crashes reported on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards. The patch launches on August 4 at 8:00 UTC.
We previously covered reports of Battlefield 6 crashing on RTX 50 GPUs when loading maps with large bodies of water. EA later recommended GeForce driver 596.49 as a temporary workaround while the developers investigated
ASUS, GIGABYTE and MSI are reportedly preparing another round of motherboard price increases in the third quarter of 2026. The information comes from Board Channels, focused on graphics card and motherboard distribution.
According to the report, prices for PCBs used in consumer motherboards are expected to rise by at least 50% during 2026. Costs for copper, surface-mount capacitors, power components and supporting controller chips have
Microsoft is preparing to bring Xbox 360 games to PC, handhelds and its next-generation Xbox hardware. The program will reportedly begin rolling out between 2027 and 2028.
The details come from a Microsoft document sent to game developers and reviewed by The Verge. We already covered the leaked roadmap, but the new report confirms that the Xbox 360 catalog is part of Microsoft’s broader backward
Several owners of the original Lenovo Legion Go say their handhelds stopped booting after installing the official N3CN42WW BIOS update. The reported symptoms include a black screen with the power button, controller LEDs and cooling fan still operating. The number of affected systems is unknown, and Lenovo has not confirmed that the BIOS contains a fault.
N3CN42WW is an official BIOS package for