Samsung has listed the Odyssey G8 G80HS in Europe, giving its 32-inch 6K gaming monitor a retail price and launch schedule. The monitor is listed as the S32HG806ES.
The G80HS is a flat IPS monitor with a native resolution of 6144×3456
Those looking for a new laptop may have noticed that Dell has had a much larger presence in the review cycle than usual. The company brought the XPS name back this year, after retiring it in favor of the Dell Premium branding introduced during its 2025 AI PC portfolio reset. Well that backfired hard and Dell is now promoting the return of XPS as a major event (quite literally, they flew press for the event).
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© VALVE Valve is launching its new Steam Controller on May 4, with the gamepad priced at $99 in the US, €99 in Europe, £85 in the UK, $149 CAD in Canada and $149 AUD in Australia. The controller is being released separately from Steam Machine, while Steam Machine and Steam Frame still do not have final launch details.
The new Steam Controller uses a more
Noctua has published a dedicated page for 3D CAD models of its products, giving system designers, case makers, modders and visual artists access to reference files for mechanical design work.
The company says these CAD models are available through the download section of its website. They are intended to represent mounting dimensions and the external dimensions of supported Noctua products. This makes them useful for checking clearance, planning brackets, building case layouts or preparing product renders.
AMD EXPO 1.2 is now appearing in AM5 beta BIOS releases, but the update does not mean current Ryzen CPUs suddenly gain full DDR5 CUDIMM support.
This follows our earlier coverage of ASUS adding EXPO 1.2 support to X870 beta BIOS builds and AMD’s updated EXPO 1.2 feature set. ASUS has since listed more beta BIOS files on the ROG forum, including X870 and B
I guess we are back to reporting on laser-engraving scams, but this one is much better than before.
A second-hand ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 sent to Northwest Repair turned out to be a fake card. The seller reportedly claimed it came from an Amazon pallet, but the card did not work on any test bench. Once opened, the PCB looked clean, with no clear signs of a failed
Version 32.0.101.8517 WHQL is listed as Q1.26.R2 and is marked by Intel as a hotfix release (which doesn’t happen very often).
This is a workstation-optimized driver for Intel Arc Pro GPUs. The package supports Arc Pro B70, B65, B60 and B50 discrete
Intel’s Core 5 320 has appeared in the PassMark database, giving the first public look at performance for one of the new Wildcat Lake processors. This is a Core Series 3 chip for entry-level laptops, positioned below the Core Ultra Series 3 lineup.
The Core 5 320 uses a 6-core, 6-thread configuration.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is now listed for $574on Amazon US, one of the lowest prices for the 16-core Zen 5 X3D processor.
The new price puts the 9950X3D $325 below the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, which launched at $899.
The external GPU market is moving faster than it has in years. After the Thunderbolt 3 and Thunderbolt 4 era, the market shifted to OCuLink docks, then Thunderbolt 5 enclosures. Now two faster direct PCIe options are moving into the consumer space: OCuLink 8i and MCIO 8i.
GPD has now introduced two products built around MCIO 8i: the GPD BOX mini PC and the