Colorful to bring back some DDR3 motherboards in May

Colorful may restock DDR3 motherboards, limited H81 supply expected in early May

Colorful could soon restock older DDR3-based motherboards, according to a post published by Channel Gate. The update says Colorful’s motherboard factory is currently out of D3 boards, with supply effectively cut off. The shortage is said to be affecting business.

The post claims Colorful is planning to re-procure D3 motherboards to ease the current supply pressure. Shipments are expected to arrive soon, although no exact date was shared

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LG 39GX950B-B 5K2K OLED monitor gets official $1,799 price, shipping in May

LG 39GX950B-B 39-inch 5K2K OLED monitor gets official price

LG has now put both of its new UltraGear evo gaming monitors up for preorder in the US. The 39-inch 39GX950B-B is listed at $1,799.99, while the 27-inch 27GM950B-B is priced at $1,199.99. LG’s

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Corsair quietly increases AMD Strix Halo PC price by $1,100 for flagship SKU

Corsair AI Workstation 300 gets price increase, top SKU up $1,100

Corsair has raised pricing for its AI Workstation 300 lineup in the US, with the largest jump hitting the top Ryzen AI Max+ 395 configuration. The 128GB, 4TB model is now listed at $3,399.99, up from the $2,299.99 launch price we reported when the system first appeared in July 202

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Qualcomm asks AYN to change Odin 3 SoC name from Snapdragon to Dragonwing nearly six months after launch

AYN Odin 3 now officially using Dragonwing Q8, but it’s not much of a problem since it has nearly the same specs (without modem)

AYN has changed the processor name on its Odin 3 product page. The Android-based gaming handheld is now listed with Qualcomm Dragonwing Q8 instead of Snapdragon 8 Elite , after Retro Handhelds reported that AYN was asked to correct the naming to avoid confusion. AYN’s current store page now uses Dragonwing Q8 branding across the product listing.

From Snapdragon to Dragonwing

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Intel Nova Lake uses Xe3 and Xe3P graphics, no elements of Xe4

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Jaykihn clarifies Intel Nova Lake has no Xe4 parts, only Xe3 and Xe3P

As you may recall, there has been some confusion around one of the most important (to us) aspects of the Nova Lake update, specifically its graphics. There are basically two things to remember. First, we already knew that Nova Lake would use Xe3 graphics, but the exact version was not confirmed. Intel then started releasing Linux patches that revealed the platform

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Razor Lake-AX to use socket larger than current desktop series, Intel’s next-gen chip with big graphics

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Intel Razor Lake-AX with BGA4326 socket – potential AMD Halo and Apple M Pro+ series competitor

Intel AX Series – big CPU and big GPU

Currently, there is no firm confirmation that Intel will actually launch the long-rumored AX series. This name refers to Intel’s large graphics-focused APU or SoC design, comparable to AMD’s Halo series, which combines Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5 on a single package.

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Valve preparing FPS Estimator, Steam may soon show estimated game framerates for saved PC hardware

Steam may add hardware-based FPS estimates to game pages, new client strings suggest

Valve appears to be working on a framerate estimation tool for Steam. The strings visible in the image point to a new “Framerate Estimator” that would let users select a game and a PC configuration, then view estimated framerates based on data from other Steam users.

This may line up with what Valve already introduced in official Steam client updates. Valve added an opt-in setting for anonymized gameplay framerate data, saying it is stored without

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NVIDIA Pascal turns 10, the architecture that gave us GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

NVIDIA Pascal turns 10, from Tesla P100 to GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

NVIDIA’s Pascal GPU architecture officially turned 10 on April 5, 2026. The company first unveiled Pascal with the Tesla P100 accelerator at GTC on April 5, 2016, before the architecture later reached consumer graphics cards through the GeForce GTX 10 series.

Pascal started as a data center product, not a gaming launch. NVIDIA described the architecture around five core technology

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ASUS ROG Xbox Ally with Ryzen Z2A drops to $499

Base ROG Xbox Ally now $499.99 on Amazon US

ASUS ROG Xbox Ally has dropped to $499.99 on Amazo, down from a listed $599.99. Microsoft’s own store still shows the handheld starting at official MSRP, although it is currently out of stock there. That puts the current Amazon offer $100 below Microsoft’s listed entry price for the device.

This is the standard ROG Xbox Ally, not the higher-

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Intel confirms our leak, Core Ultra X9 378H Panther Lake CPU launched

Intel adds another 16-core CPU with Arc B390 graphics

In early March, we exclusively revealed that Intel was preparing a new Panther Lake chip called Core Ultra X9 378H. Intel has now made this SKU official over the weekend. The new processor has appeared on Intel ARK as part of the Core Ultra Series 3 lineup.

On paper, the Core Ultra X9 378H is effectively identical to the Core Ultra X7 368H. Intel lists both parts

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