Samsung Galaxy Book6 Panther Lake laptops priced for Europe, entry model starts at €1,149 and Book6 Ultra reaches €3,399

Galaxy Book6 preorders start next week, Samsung lists euro pricing and March 11 availability

Samsung has now published official European pricing and timing for its Galaxy Book6 laptop family, after earlier announcements and regional price disclosures that did not fully cover Europe-wide availability. Pre-orders open on February 25, 2026, with sales and shipments starting on March 11, 2026.

The initial rollout covers Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom

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Microsoft tests Windows 11 taskbar speed test in Release Preview Build

Windows 11 Insiders: KB5077241 tests taskbar speed test, WebP backgrounds, and printing improvements

Microsoft has shipped new Windows 11 preview updates that show what the next batch of features and fixes will look like before broader rollout. In the Release Preview Channel, Microsoft is now testing Windows 11 Build 26100.7918 (24H2) and Build 26200.7918 (25H2) under KB

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ComputerBase blind test shows DLSS 4.5 preferred over FSR and native in all six games

DLSS 4.5 first, native second

ComputerBase has published the results of a community blind test that ran for two weeks. Readers voted on which image looked best in six games at Ultra HD output resolution, comparing NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Quality, AMD FSR Upscaling AI (FSR 4) Quality, and native rendering with TAA.

Across 6,747 total votes, DLSS 4.5 was selected most often at 48.2%. Native + TAA placed second at 24.0%,

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Cyberpunk 2077 is now runs on Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 phone via PC emulation

Cyberpunk 2077 PC emulation on Android shown on Red Magic 11 Pro, 720p results range from high 20s to 50 FPS

ETA Prime published a new demo showing Cyberpunk 2077 running on an Android phone through PC emulation layers, not cloud streaming. The test uses GameSir GameHub as the front end and a Snapdragon-based gaming phone, aiming to run the Windows PC build on Arm hardware. This is the same software that was recently announced for MacOS .

In the

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ASUS confirms Germany store suspension amid Nokia HEVC patent dispute, support remains unchanged

ASUS suspends German web store after Munich court injunction in Nokia HEVC dispute

Source: Nokia/ASUS

Following earlier reports, ASUS has now officially and temporarily suspended its website and online store in Germany after a ruling by the Munich I Regional Court tied to a patent dispute with Nokia.

The company says the suspension follows a temporary injunction and affects select PCs and products that use High Efficiency Video Coding, also known as HEVC or H.265.

Services and support are still provided

It adds that after-sales services in

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Intel

AMD calls MI455X delay claims “BS”, says shipments still on track for H2 2026

AMD denies MI455X delay claims

AMD has pushed back on a report claiming its next-generation AMD Instinct MI455X accelerators are facing manufacturing delays that would limit production in 2026. The claim came from SemiAnalysis, which tied the alleged slip to AMD’s first rack-scale buildout and said broader availability would move out to 2027.

SemiAnalysis said engineering samples and low-volume production of AMD’s first rack-scale MI455X UALoE7

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NZXT launches $3,499 H2 Mini PC with Ryzen 7 9800X3D or Core Ultra 9 285K and GeForce RTX 5080

NZXT announces H2 Mini PC with Ryzen 7 9800X3D or Core Ultra 9 285K, plus H2 Flow Mini-ITX case and C850 SFX PSU

NZXT has announced three small form factor products aimed at compact gaming builds: the H2 Mini PC prebuilt, the H2 Flow Mini-ITX case, and the C850 SFX Gold power supply. The H2 Mini PC is listed in two configurations, one based on AMD’s Ryzen 7

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NVIDIA confirms DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support for Styx: Blades of Greed, Star Trek: Voyager, and Battlefield 6 Season 2

Battlefield 6 Season 2 claims up to 460 FPS on RTX 50 Series with DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, NVIDIA details new supported games

Battlefield 6 Season 2 is now live, and NVIDIA is also highlighting three additional titles that are either launching with native DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support or can be upgraded through the NVIDIA App.

The company says Season 2 includes support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, DLSS Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, DLAA, and NVIDIA Reflex. NVIDIA’s performance claim is

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Intel uncaps XeSS Multi Frame Generation for Arc A770 with driver update, card gets a second life

Intel Arc A770 with XeSS Multi Frame Generation driver update

Source: PC Games Hardware

Intel has expanded XeSS 3 Multi Frame Generation support with graphics driver 32.0.101.8509 WHQL. The release notes list extended platform support that now includes Arc B-Series and Arc A-Series discrete GPUs, plus several Core Ultra iGPU platforms.

PC Games Hardware tested the feature on Arc A770 16GB and Arc B580 12GB in seven

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China-made CXMT DDR5 in KingBank’s DDR5-6000 CL36 tested, small price cut but no gaming downside

Chinese KingBank DDR5-6000 CL36 memory with CXMT modules tested on Zen 5

Hardware Unboxed published a review focused on a retail DDR5 kit from KingBank that is sold in Australia with Chinese ChangXin Memory Technologies DRAM chips listed among its possible IC suppliers, as the current memory market is in dire need of an alternative supplier.

The kit tested was a 32GB DDR5-6000 CL36 model sold locally at about 599 AUD versus roughly 649 AUD

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