Windows already comes ready for 1000Hz+ monitors

Windows updates for monitors

Microsoft’s latest Windows Insider wave adds a small but useful display change. In Release Preview builds 26100.8106 and 26200.8106, Windows 11 can now handle monitors reporting refresh rates above 1000 Hz. That item landed on March 12, while the newest Dev Channel release remains build 26300.7965

Xbox says Automatic Super Resolution preview for ROG Xbox Ally X starts in April

Xbox said at GDC 2026 that its Automatic Super Resolution, or Auto SR, feature will enter public preview for the ROG Xbox Ally X in April. Microsoft first disclosed Auto SR support for the handheld in August 2025, when it said the feature would arrive in early 2026.

Auto SR is a Windows-level upscaling feature designed to improve image quality while boosting performance. Microsoft says it lowers a game

NVIDIA G-SYNC Pulsar gets first firmware update, fixes sub-90 FPS issues

NVIDIA has posted a browser-based firmware updater for its first G-SYNC Pulsar monitors. Firmware version 1.1.4 is available for the Acer Predator XB273U F5, AOC AGON PRO AG276QSG2, ASUS ROG STRIX Pulsar XG27AQNGV, and MSI MPG 272QRF X36. According to NVIDIA, the update adds Pulsar optimizations, removes sharp double images

Google confirms Chrome support for ARM64 Linux

Google says Chrome for ARM64 Linux will launch in Q2 2026, ending a long-standing gap in its desktop browser lineup. The company plans to offer official ARM64 binaries for Debian and RPM-based distributions, with downloads also available through chrome.com. This comes after Arm-native Chrome builds already arrived on macOS in 2020 and Windows in 2024.

The main reason Linux users never got official Chrome

COLORFUL lists RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 Ultra black cards, Duo and SFF also confirmed

Colorful has announced its new iGame GeForce RTX 50 Ultra Series. The new cards keep the same graffiti-style RGB lighting, holographic finish, and pop-art cooler styling, but swap the white shroud for a darker color scheme with pink accents. The company says the standard Ultra lineup uses a triple-fan cooler and large heatsink design.

The press release also confirms two additional branches of the lineup

Ryzen 7 9800X3D hits $429

There has not been much to report on CPU deals recently, especially since both AMD and Intel offerings have been relatively quiet. However, with Arrow Lake Refresh expected at the end of this month, we are now starting to see some pricing activity from AMD as well.

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D has dropped to $429.95 , based on a current Amazon listing for the boxed desktop processor

Microsoft DirectStorage 1.4 public preview adds Zstandard and Game Asset Conditioning Library

Microsoft has released DirectStorage 1.4 in public preview, and the main change is support for Zstandard , or Zstd, as a new compression option for Windows game assets. Microsoft says the update should help improve compression ratios, cut load times, and make asset streaming smoother in larger games. That’s the theory.

The update also includes the first public preview of the Game Asset Conditioning Library , or GACL. Microsoft says GACL can improve Zstd

Huang says GeForce 3 helped turn NVIDIA from graphics company into computing company, drinks to that

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang used a GeForce 3 anniversary discussion to make a broad claim about the company’s history, saying, “ Without GeForce there would be no CUDA. Without CUDA there would be no AI. Without AI there would be no today.” The remarks frame GeForce not just as a gaming brand, but as the starting point for NVIDIA’s push into general-purpose GPU computing and AI. This is not

Unity says official Steam and native Linux support are expanding

Unity says it is expanding official support for Steam, native Linux, Steam Deck, and the upcoming Steam Machine. According Unity James Stone developers have long shipped Unity games on Steam, but Steam support itself was never officially supported by Unity and was instead handled by developers through their own Steamworks integration.

Stone also said Unity plans to provide build targets not just for Steam, but also for Steam Deck and the upcoming Steam Machine. He added that Unity will make targeted enhancements