ASUS Germany site returns, desktops and laptops pulled after court sales ban

ASUS Germany website is back online, Acer Germany site still shows maintenance page

ASUS’s German site is reachable again as of today, after over a week of disappearance. However, it is not presenting the usual laptop and desktop lineup. Acer’s German site, by contrast, is still redirecting visitors to a maintenance notice page.

If you are confused why  ASUS has taken its German website down, it is due to a patent licensing dispute tied to the HEVC, also called H.265, video

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Modders working on FSR 4 support for Vulkan titles using OptiScaler’s DX12 bridge, AMD remains silent

OptiScaler expands FSR 4 beyond DirectX 12 with a new Vulkan interop mode

We have not heard much from the AMD Radeon team for quite some time, and it looks like they have been focused on adding AI bundles to the drivers. Meanwhile, modders have been working on features gamers haveactully been asking for, including FSR 4 support for Vulkan games.

It is hard to believe, but despite launching FSR 4 months ago, this upscaling technology still does not work with Vulkan titles. AMD has not confirmed that Vulkan support is

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Thief steals $14K GPUs in South Korea, only took three cards

High-end GPUs stolen

Source: Newsis

A masked man broke into a computer parts shop in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, early on Feb. 22. Police say he forced his way in by smashing the glass door with a tool, then went straight for the high-end graphics cards and got out fast.

Initial reports put the loss at about 16 million won, roughly $11,100 worth of GPUs. Some coverage described the haul as “multiple” cards, while one broadcast report

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Intel

AMD shares another render of Ryzen AI 400 “Gorgon Point” for AM5 socket

Ryzen AI 400 “Gorgon Point” expands beyond laptops

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AMD has already tied Ryzen AI 400 to desktops, not just laptops. In its AMD CES 2026 announcement, the company said systems powered by Ryzen AI 400 will ship in Q1 2026 for notebooks, with desktops featuring Ryzen AI 400 introduced later in Q2 2026 .

We discovered that AMD has already uploaded a render of Ryzen AI 400, confirming it is

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AMD confirms second FSR Redstone game: Crimson Desert

Crimson Desert launch plans include AMD Redstone features

Ray Regeneration is part of AMD’s “FSR Redstone” feature set, but it is not locked behind “FSR Upscaling” or “FSR Frame Generation.” AMD describes it as a standalone, ML-based denoiser that is decoupled from upscaling, while still being designed to work best alongside the rest of the Redstone stack.

AMD has added Crimson Desert to an official Ryzen and Radeon hardware bundle campaign, setting the game as a promoted PC title tied to its current gaming

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Intel

Intel job listing mentions “Unified Core” CPU design team as hybrid P-core and E-core era continues

Intel job listing suggests “Unified Core” research continues internally

A new job listing from Intel references a “Unified Core design team,” suggesting the company is staffing work tied to a future CPU core direction beyond today’s split between performance and efficiency cores. The role is for a senior CPU verification engineer in Austin, and it describes pre-silicon functional verification work, which usually happens well before a product is publicly named.

Intel has used a hybrid layout in mainstream client CPUs since 12th Gen “Alder

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Yeston’s Radeon RX 9070 GRE Sakura “Waifu” reviewed, China-exclusive model

Gamers Nexus tests the China-exclusive RX 9070 GRE

A new round of testing has put the Yeston Sakura-themed “Waifu” version of AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 GRE back in the spotlight. The card is built around a model that has so far been sold in China, and the specific unit tested is one of Yeston’s decorative Sakura variants rather than a reference-style partner design.

The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a China-exclusive SKU. It

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Hard drive pricing drives data hoarder to fly from UK to US to buy storage, still saves $2000

UK buyer flies to the US to buy 28TB drives

Source: Reddit

User cgtechuk on Reddit’s r/DataHoarder says UK pricing for high-capacity hard drives has gotten so inflated that flying to New York City made more sense than buying locally. He bought ten 28TB drives in the US and carried them back to the UK.

He says it was not possible to buy more than five drives per store, so he split the purchase across two US retailers. To avoid getting stuck with a swapped

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Reports claim MSI yellow-tipped 16-pin power connector can work loose over time

Is this why we are seeing so many cases of burned yellow-tipped connector?

Source: MSI

MSI’s yellow-tipped 16-pin GPU power connector is designed to make insertion easy to verify. The idea is simple, if you can still see yellow, the plug is not fully seated. A new Reddit thread suggests another failure mode, the plug may slowly work its way out over time, making the yellow section visible again even after the user says it clicked into place.

In the post,

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Intel

ASRock lists NUC Ultra 300 BOX mini PCs with Core Ultra 5 325 and Core Ultra X7 358H

“Panther Lake” in Mini-PCs

ASRock Industrial has published product pages for its NUC Ultra 300 BOX lineup, a new set of compact “fanned embedded box” systems built around Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, also known as Panther Lake-H . The company shows four models split across two chassis sizes and two CPU options: NUC BOX-325, NUC BOX-358H, NUCS BOX-325, and NUCS BOX-358H.

Basically there

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