Newegg honors $87 combo ‘deal’

A Reddit user says Newegg shipped a full AM5 starter bundle for just $86.98 after a combo configurator error applied nearly $800 in savings to one Corsair DDR5 memory kit. According to the post, the order included an AMD Ryzen 5 7600X, a B850M motherboard, 32GB of Corsair DDR5-6000 memory, and a free Cooler Master 240L liquid

3DMark2001 25 years later

3DMark2001 is back in the conversation 25 years after its March 13, 2001 release, and UL still hosts it on the company’s legacy benchmark page. UL describes it as a DirectX 8 benchmark built around four game tests, Car Chase, Dragothic, Lobby, and Nature. The company also notes that 3DMark2001 SE later added DirectX 8.1 support, and the download page still includes

RAMacolypse pushes ASRock to launch a new Combo motherboard

ASRock has added the H610M COMBO II to its Intel motherboard lineup. The new microATX board supports 12th, 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core processors on socket LGA1700 , and its main feature is a combo memory layout with two DDR5 DIMM slots and one DDR4 DIMM slot. ASRock also says the model may not be sold in every region.

On the DDR5 side, ASRock lists support for up

GMKtec EVO-T2 launches in China, global pricing still not announced

GMKtec has officially introduced the EVO-T2 , a new mini PC built around Intel’s Panther Lake platform and aimed at local AI workloads. The company says the system will be offered with I ntel Core Ultra X9 388H and Core Ultra X7 358H processors, both 16-core chips with 4P, 8E, and 4 LP-E cores. GMKtec rates the system at up to

AIDA64 has released version 8.25.8211 beta

The new build officially lists improved support for Intel Nova Lake and Wildcat Lake processors, alongside fixes for memory type detection on Panther Lake, Wildcat Lake, and Nova Lake systems.

AIDA64 does not name Bartlett Lake directly in the 8.25.8211 release notes, but it adds processor number detection for I ntel Core 5 213PE, 213PTE, 223PE, 2

Rising VRAM costs reportedly force Zephyr to shelve single-fan RTX 4070 Ti SUPER project

Zephyr has reportedly put its GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Sakura Blowing Snow X project on hold, according to a new company update shared by UNIKO’s Hardware . The reason given is a sharp rise in video memory costs and continued demand from industrial buyers. Zephyr now plans to launch a GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER version instead. Earlier this year, the company had said development of the single-

ASRock Challenger Arc B580 costs $299 on Newegg, includes cooler

Newegg is currently listing the ASRock Challenger Arc B580 12GB for $299.99, which is currently the lowest price for this model. Interestingly, the product page advertises a free ASRock AIO with purchase.

That price puts the ASRock card $50 above Intel’s launch pricing for the Arc B580. Intel introduced the Arc B580 in December 202

AMD GFX1310, aka RDNA5 appears in LLVM update

AMD may be making it easier for RDNA 5 GPUs to use a feature called Dual Issue. Dual Issue lets the GPU do two math operations at the same time in some cases, instead of just one. A recent LLVM code change for gfx13 , which is tied to AMD’s upcoming gfx1310 architecture, suggests RDNA 5 could use that feature more often than older designs. The change appeared in an LLVM pull request

Synopsys shows early PCIe 8.0 hardware support at 256 GT/s

PCIe 8.0 is still years away from final release, but parts of the ecosystem are already moving. At DesignCon 2026, Synopsys showed what it describes as PCIe 8.0-class electrical performance at 256 GT/s, including eye diagram viewing and receiver performance at PCIe 8.0 data rates. PCI-SIG says PCIe 8.0 Draft 0.3 is now available to members, and