Intel Core Ultra 3 205 shows up at French retailer with €158 price

Entry-level Arrow Lake for desktops incoming

Intel’s Core Ultra 3 205 desktop CPU has appeared again at French retailer PC21. The page lists Intel part number AT8076806773 as a tray processor for LGA1851 with 15MB cache, priced at €132 before tax and €158 including tax. The listing is marked “sur commande,” with zero units in stock, and the page was updated on March

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MACHENIKE gaming Mini PC features Core i9-14900HX and RTX 5070 debuts at $2300 in China

MACHENIKE Dawn Gaming Mini PC unveiled

MACHENIKE’s “Dawn” Gaming Mini PC has appeared in China, giving the company a new entry in the compact gaming desktop segment. The first retail listing shows three configurations.

The lineup uses Intel’s Raptor Lake HX platform rather than newer Arrow Lake HX parts. According to retail details echoed by third-party reports, buyers can choose between Core i7-14700HX with RTX 5060, Core i9-14900

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Mystery NVIDIA T6000 card turns out to be pre-release Quadro RTX 6000

Unmarked NVIDIA T6000 graphics card identified as early Quadro RTX 6000

Source: Reddit/5G-A

A Reddit user has posted photos of an unusual NVIDIA graphics card marked “T6000,” a name that does not match any known high-end workstation product released by the company. NVIDIA’s official Turing-era lineup did not include a model with that branding.

Users in the thread suggested the board could be a preproduction version of the Quadro RTX 60

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Modder turns Xbox Series X into gaming PC with RTX 5060

PhasedTech builds RTX 5060 PC inside Xbox Series X shell

PhasedTech has turned an Xbox Series X into a full Windows gaming PC, while keeping the original outer shell and even the optical drive functional. The project started with a broken second-hand console, which was stripped down and modified to make room for PC hardware. Windows Central first highlighted the build this week, while the original video was published on PhasedTech’s YouTube channel.

Instead of using a Mini-ITX board, the build relies on an

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Display Driver Uninstaller 18.1.5.0 adds dark mode

Wagnardsoft updates DDU

Display Driver Uninstaller 18.1.5.0 is now available, and the main visible change is a new dark theme for the interface (shown above). The update was published by Wagnardsoft yesterday, and it keeps support for Windows 7 through Windows 11, along with NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPU driver cleanup.

On the Intel side, DDU now removes additional registry entries tied to “Game Assist” and also adds cleanup for the “Intel(R) Integrated Graphics Shader Distributor

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Thermal Grizzly launches Mycro Pro RGB CPU water blocks for AM5 and LGA1851

Thermal Grizzly Mycro Pro RGB now available, starts at €139.90

Thermal Grizzly has introduced its new Mycro Pro RGB CPU water blocks for AMD and Intel platforms. The new lineup includes the AM5 Mycro Pro RGB and Intel 1851 Mycro Pro RGB, both using the same overall design as the company’s Mycro direct-die coolers.

The blocks use a nickel-plated copper cold plate, tempered acrylic glass, an acrylic jet plate, and an anodized aluminum cover. Thermal Grizzly

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Intel Arc Pro B70 “Big Battlemage” workstation card pictured

Arc Pro B70 reference by Intel

No, this is not the only version of Arc Pro B70 that will reach the market. This is Intel’s branded card, or simply a reference design with its own specifications. As we already revealed, Intel will allow partners to adjust board power from 160W to 290W. This particular design has a 230W board power setting.

As we can see, the reference B70 uses a blower-style design,

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MINISFORUM adds Ryzen 9 8945HX option to MS-A2 mini PC lineup

MINISFORUM MS-A2 gets Ryzen 9 8945HX, pricing starts at $599

MINISFORUM has updated its MS-A2 mini workstation with a new AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX option . The system was already available with Ryzen 7 7745HX, Ryzen 9 7945HX, and Ryzen 9 9955HX processors, so the 8945HX now fills the gap between the existing Zen 4 and Zen 5 variants.

The new configuration

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Moore Threads launches MTVSR video upscaling in v330.140 driver

Super Resolution, but only for video

Moore Threads has released its v330.140 graphics driver which adds MTVSR, the company’s new real-time video super-resolution feature , alongside game fixes and professional software updates. The key point is that MTVSR is not a gaming upscaler. It is a video playback feature designed to upscale low-resolution video during playback, not a real-time rendering feature for games.

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Brother Zhang restores ASUS GeForce RTX 4060 after house fire

Burned ASUS GeForce RTX 4060 returns to life after fire damage repair

A Chinese repair technician known as Brother Zhang has shared a case involving an ASUS GeForce RTX 4060 that survived a house fire. According to the video, the owner used an electric heater during the Lunar New Year period, and the room later caught fire. Photos from the scene showed extensive damage, with most items in the room burned, including the owner’s desktop PC.

Apparently it’s not much of an issue

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