Today Intel is announcing its Core Ultra 200S Plus desktop series, adding four new unlocked SKUs to the Arrow Lake-S lineup. The launch includes the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and 270KF Plus, alongside the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and 250KF Plus. Intel says the new chips bring more efficiency cores, higher die-to-die frequency, faster official
Time to lower the price, then?
ASUS, company better known for high prices and limited understanding what MSRP should mean is now saying that they were shocked by recent Apple annoucement of budget laptop. ASUS says Apple’s new MacBook Neo has changed the discussion for low-cost laptops. During an earnings call on March 10, co-CEO S.Y. Hsu said the $599 starting price is a “shock” to
Framework has published another pricing update, confirming higher costs for DDR5 memory, some SSD capacities, Framework Desktop, and select pre-built Framework Laptop 16 configurations. The latest update, dated March 9, says DDR5 SO-DIMM pricing now ranges from $13 to $18 per GB , up from the $12 to $16 per GB range the company listed in its February update
ASUS has started selling the NUC 16 Pro in China after first showing the system during its CES 2026 lineup reveal. The first retail configuration is listed at RMB 10,999, which converts to about $1,602 at the current mid-market exchange rate. That SKU pairs Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H
ASUS has rolled out another round of AM5 beta BIOS updates based on AGESA 1.3.0.0a, and the update is now being linked to support for a “future CPU.” The current X870 batch includes BIOS 2103 on several ROG and TUF models, while ASUS’ ROG forum posts for the wider 1.3.0.
Alphacool has announced two new enterprise-focused GPU water coolers based on NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell workstation and server cards. The new lineup includes the ES RTX 6000 Pro Workstation / RTX 5090 Founders Edition block and the ES RTX 6000 Pro Server Edition in a 1-slot design.
The workstation model is designed for the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition
Valve’s Steam Year in Review 2025 drew early attention for its unreleased hardware comments , including a wording change around Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller plans. Apparently, the same report also included a separate data point on Steam’s overall traffic, which received far less attention.
According to Valve, Steam delivered about 80 exabytes of data to users in 2024. In
ZOTAC Japan has launched a local campaign that gives buyers of selected GeForce RTX 50 series products a free ZOTAC GAMING folding umbrella. The offer applies to RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5070, and qualifying desktop PCs. It runs from February 27 through April 5, with applications open until April 12.
Yes, the freebie is an umbrella. Not a support bracket, not a
The National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas has acquired the Sony MSF-1 , an early development system tied to Sony and Nintendo’s canceled Super Nintendo CD project. The museum described the hardware as the oldest known existing Nintendo PlayStation artifact and the only known surviving unit of this specific MSF-1 type.
The MSF-1 appears to be much closer to internal development hardware than the better-known “Nintendo Play Station” prototype that has circulated for years. According to the museum
Crimson Desert now has one of the broadest official requirements updates we have seen for a single game. The new charts cover PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, and even the ROG Xbox Ally lineup. It is hard to recall another requirements update that covered this many systems at once.
On PC, the game starts at an upscaled 1080
