NVIDIA says GeForce NOW supports 4,500 plus games

GeForce NOW adds Star Trek: Voyager Across the Unknown and STALCRAFT: X in Feb. 19 drop

NVIDIA has announced today its cloud streaming service now supports more than 4,500 titles, and it is adding 12 more games this week.

The update also includes a community giveaway hosted on Reddit, using the #6YearsofGFN tag. NVIDIA says entries include sharing in game screenshots and memes, with prizes that include an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K and a Thrustmaster HOTAS ONE, running through Friday,

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GeForce RTX 5090 user caps power at 500W, still sees burned 12V-2×6 adapter

Gigabyte RTX 5090 AORUS MASTER ICE owner reports burned 16-pin adapter after power was limited to 500W

A user on Mobile01 reports that the bundled 16-pin power adapter for a Gigabyte AORUS MASTER ICE GeForce RTX 5090 burned after the PC began crashing during a gaming session. According to the user, the 16-pin connector on the graphics card itself looked normal at the time of inspection.

What makes this story particularly interesting is that the original poster

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Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5060 Ti AI BOX packs a replaceable GPU board with PCIe x8 connector

Gigabyte’s RTX 5060 AORUS eGPU has been taken apart

Source: eGPU

A teardown of the Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5060 Ti AI BOX suggests the compact Thunderbolt 5 eGPU is built around a more conventional internal GPU layout than many expected. Photos shared on eGPU.io show the GPU section as a separate board that plugs into a physical PCIe connector, rather than being permanently integrated into a single custom backplane.

According to the teardown, the enclosure uses a physical PCIe x8 slot for the RTX

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Another RTX 5090 2000W XOC BIOS leaks out, NVIDIA extreme OC scene is slowly waking up

RTX 5090 XOC BIOS leaks expand again

Overclocker slovak_killer has posted that another RTX 5090 high-power vBIOS has leaked, this time labeled “ ASTRAL RTX 5090 2000W XOC V2 “. According to him, it is a newer revision that should include a fixed power limit behavior, with the GPU reportedly able to reach 2000W.

This leak follows earlier 2000W-class BIOS chatter tied to ASUS’s Astral

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AMD Ryzen 500 “Medusa” RDNA 4m iGPU shows RDNA 4 matrix ISA support, FSR 4 support looks likely

AMD GFX1170 “RDNA 4m” target gains more RDNA 4 style ISA changes in LLVM

Linux compiler work for AMD’s Radeon stack is revealing more about a new “ GFX1170 ” GPU target that is tagged as an APU or SoC part and labeled “ RDNA 4m “, despite sitting in the GFX11 family associated with RDNA 3. Phoronix reports that recent changes in the AMDGPU backend for LLVM continue to push GFX1170’s instruction set closer to

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Redditor gambles on broken $50 Z690 board with M.2 coolers installed, finds four SSDs valued up to $1,900

Great marketplace find

Source: Reddit

Redditor “R550MAGIC2” says he bought a used Z690 motherboard for $50 and later found that all four M.2 slots were populated with SSDs. The buyer says the board had a bent socket pin, but the presence of heatsinks on every M.2 slot suggested storage might still be installed.

Long story short, the board did in fact have SSD and it wasn’t just one drive, but three. Apparently it featured two

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NVIDIA GTC 2026: Jensen Huang promises a chip reveal meant to “surprise the world”

Jensen Huang says NVIDIA will unveil a “world-surprising” chip at GTC 2026

Source: NVIDIA

In an interview with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, South Korea’s The Korea Economic Daily reported that Huang expects the company to unveil “a chip that will surprise the world ” at GTC 2026 next month. The report says the comment came during an unscheduled Q&A in Santa Clara, California, following a dinner with NVIDIA and SK hynix engineers.

GTC 2026 is scheduled

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User claims Ryzen 9800X3D died on ASUS X870 board, then it “killed” the replacement 9850X3D too

ASUS motherboard behind two 9000X3D dead CPUs

Source: Gamers Nexus (Image Altered)

A user in Australia says two Ryzen X3D processors failed within weeks on the same ASUS TUF X870-P WIFI motherboard, after a period of intermittent freezes and boot-time lockups. Redditor “UniverseWillDecide” says their first build paired the board with a Ryzen 9800X3D, which ran normally for about a week before the system began freezing while idle or during Windows

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ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X price in Japan rises by 21%, Legion Go 2 price climbs in US

ASUS raises ROG Xbox Ally X price in Japan from ¥139,800 to ¥169,800, while base model stays at ¥89,800

The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X has increased in price in Japan, based on listings on ASUS’s official store and multiple retailer pages. The handheld launched at ¥139,800 in the country, and it is now listed at ¥169,800, a ¥

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RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z: overclocker reports cracked GB202 die during extreme OC attempt

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z reportedly fails

Source: Jonathan Alva

Indonesian overclocker Jonathan Alva (Lucky_n00b) shared photos of a cracked GB202 die after testing the card with an “XOC” BIOS that’s meant for extreme overclocking sessions, typically under sub-zero cooling.

Out of the box, the RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z ships with two BIOS modes, 800W and 1000W. Both the retail and special XOC (Lightning

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