eGryphon portable eGPU offers RTX 5060Ti/5070, OCuLink 5 and Thunderbolt 5 at unusually low early-bird prices

Tiny eGPU appears on Kickstarter with up to RTX 5070 and OCuLink 5.0

We have an interesting new external GPU solution that recently appeared on a crowdfunding platform. As you know, we never encourage anyone to back crowdfunding projects. There are far too many scams out there, especially in the eGPU space. Still, unlike some other projects, this one appears to have been sent out for review, which is at least a good sign.

It’s name is “eGryphon” and it appeared as

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Micron reportedly planning HBM-style GDDR stack for future accelerators

Stacked memory, just not HBM but GDDR

“G” used to stand for “Graphics”.

Micron is reportedly developing a vertically stacked GDDR memory product , according to a new report from ETNews. The Korean outlet says the company has started work on the new design, plans to install related equipment, and could begin process testing in the second half of this year. ETNews also says early versions may use around four layers, with samples possibly arriving next year.

The report points to AI accelerators as the main target,

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Modded AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 is still a capable gaming card: 32GB HBM2 and Vega 20 on board

8-year-old Instinct MI50 with 32GB HBM2 memory was available for just $150 before RAMpocalypse, now costs 3x more

Pro Hi-Tech’s video takes a fresh look at AMD’s Radeon Instinct MI50 , an old datacenter accelerator that is now being repurposed for desktop use. The card shown in the video was reportedly bought for 12,000 rubles, around $150 , before prices moved higher. While the card is clearly

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Fiber optic HDMI 2.1 cable enables 48 Gbps bandwidth over distances of up to 300 meters

Content creator Ben Geskin draws attention to unusual fiber optic HDMI 2.1 cable

© Ben Geskin

Well, I didn’t even know such cables existed, but thanks to content creator Ben Geskin we not only know that they do but also that they work. Ben shared some info about a special fiber optic HDMI cable with detachable connectors. Running full-spec HDMI 2.1 bandwidth over longer distances is one of the reasons why new standards are needed, especially for cables. Apparently this cable does not have any special

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Enthusiast gets Intel Core 9 273PQE “Bartlett Lake-S” boot on consumer Z790 board

Intel Bartlett Lake-S enters POST screen on ASUS Z790, still a lot of work ahead

Intel refused to launch its 12 P-Core CPUs for consumer boards, but modders are already at work to fix it.

© Intel/kryptonfly/OCN

A community member “kryptonfly” has now shown what appears to be the first successful POST screen for Intel’s Bartlett Lake-S Core 9 273PQE on a consumer ASUS Z790 motherboard.

Intel will not release official support

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No, GeForce RTX 60 specs did not leak (yet)

Wait for proper RTX 60 leaks

We appreciate numerous tips about the RTX 60 update from our readers, but we wanted to address this rumor that circulated this weekend about NVIDIA’s RTX 60 series. While many tech outlets rushed to cover it, there are currently no confirmed RTX 60 specifications available. At this stage, NVIDIA is not even working with final public-facing RTX SKU names but with board numbers, so claims involving products such as the RTX 6090, RTX 608

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ASUS launches GeForce RTX 5080 PRIMO EVO series with vapor chamber missing

ASUS PRIME RTX 5080 EVO launched

ASUS has quietly added two GeForce RTX 5080 cards to its PRIME series with the EVO suffix. At first glance, it is not obvious what EVO means here. ASUS has used that label in different ways before, sometimes for revised coolers, different display outputs, or minor clock changes, so this one required a closer look.

On paper, the PRIME RTX 5080 and PRIME RTX 5080 EVO look the same. ASUS lists the

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One ASRock board allegedly killed THREE Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs in four months

Three times the charm

After AMD replaced all three CPUs, Redditor finally decided to ditch the killer board.

A Reddit user claims one ASRock B850M Pro RS WiFi motherboard killed three Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs over roughly four months. According to the post, AMD resolved each CPU claim, but the same board stayed in the system long enough for replacement chips to fail as well.

It is true that ASRock is not the only brand involved in sudden Ryzen CPU deaths, as we

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AMD renames “Anti Lag 2” to “FSR Latency Reduction 2”

Anti-Lag 2 is no more?

As you may recall, around November, just weeks before the Redstone release, AMD made a quiet change to its technology stack. With AMD, it is often hard to keep track of what the company is doing, because it tends to leave many changes unannounced. The quiet renaming of various FidelityFX technologies to simply “FSR” was not officially highlighted and was only noticed after we spotted the change on AMD’s website.

As a result, FidelityFX Super Resolution simply became FSR

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AMD EPYC Venice samples appear with up to 192 Zen6 cores on Congo, Kenya, and Nigeria platforms

AMD EPYC Venice platform codenames take us to Africa

These benchmark entries are the first solid public hint that some Venice engineering platforms are already running DDR5-8000 . The OpenBenchmarking pages linked in that post show a 192-core Congo system with 8 x 64 GB DDR5-8000, a 128-core Kenya system with 2 x 128 GB DDR5-8000, and a dual-socket Nigeria setup with two 64-core

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