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
Reviewer explains why his RTX 5090 has “missing” solder on the power connector.
Igor´sLAB has published a technical breakdown of the “solder joint gate” discussion around MSI’s NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z. The debate started after close-up photos showed uneven through-hole solder joints around the card’s 12V 2×6 auxiliary power connector area.
The core point is that appearance alone
Literally every current-gen GPU card is now more expensive.
Source: TechSpot
Normally we discuss country or region-specific pricing, which does not always reflect what is happening globally. TechSpot tried to solve that by comparing the lowest in-stock prices for 14 current-generation graphics cards across 10 regions, using a November 2025 snapshot and an updated set from February 2026. The dataset tracks the cheapest available listings per country at the time, not average
Source: Reuters/ChenTalkShow
Many consumer electronics manufacturers could “go bankrupt or exit product lines” by the end of 2026 due to the AI-driven memory shortage, according to a reported interview with Phison Electronics CEO Chien Cheng Pan
The Pan was invited to ChenTalkShow where he explained the supply-demand imbalance for DRAM and NAND Flash could persist until 2030. It also claims memory suppliers are demanding “three
Valve has added a new supply warning to its Steam Deck store page, saying the Steam Deck OLED may be “ out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages. ”
The note follows several days of limited availability in the United States and other regions. The updated wording is the first direct acknowledgement from Valve tying Steam Deck OLED supply to the wider memory and storage crunch.
The same component situation has also affected Valve’s
Moore Threads has published GPU Compute Driver Bench as an open-source benchmark suite for GPU compute drivers. The project targets driver overhead in compute and memory heavy workloads, and it aims to provide repeatable comparisons across vendors and platforms. The code is available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license.
Moore Threads is a Beijing-based GPU developer founded in 2020 by former NVIDIA China executive Zhang Jianzhong. The company develops discrete GPUs and
A BIOS file claimed to be the 2500W “XOC” BIOS for the RTX 5090 Lightning is now available for download on Overclock forums. It was leaked by dboom, who appears to have some kind of track record doing such leaks in the past.
This is actually the first time a 2500W BIOS has been leaked for RTX 5090. This BIOS
Thermal Grizzly says it is still working on a glass-window version of its DeltaMate GPU water block for the ASUS ROG GeForce RTX 5090 Astral , after shipping the first release with an acrylic (PMMA) window. The company’s stated goal is a window material that is less prone to scratches and less affected by long-term aging than acrylic.
Roman Hartung says you cannot just take the current
GameSir has announced a macOS version of GameHub , its software that it says will run Windows PC games and titles from Steam on Macs. The company posted a “coming soon” teaser and used the line “Your Mac is now a gaming PC” in its announcement.
GameHub is already available on Android, where it combines Windows game emulation with multiple ways to access PC titles, including Steam account connectivity for downloads and saves.
For the Mac
Source: Daily Turkic
A short clip from a wedding in Turkey shows the gift line delivering PC parts instead of the usual gifts. The groom is presented with a boxed white MSI Suprim GeForce RTX 5090, which is then hung around his neck using red ribbons.
Next, the bride receives a quad-stick DDR5 kit, also tied together with red ribbons and worn like a necklace. It is the kind