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Rising video memory costs are shaping Radeon planning for 2026. Posts shared on Board Channels claim AMD board partners are preparing another adjustment for gaming GPUs.
According to the post , cost pricing for many models already went up by about 5 to 10% in January. The same source says another increase could land in February or March. The size of the next move is not stated.
Intel still has not announced a “Core Ultra 200K Plus” desktop lineup, but retailer entries are now confirming this refresh for the LGA-1851 platform.
Intel’s recent attention has been on mobile and workstation parts. Core Ultra Series 3 for laptops (Panther Lake) has already been released by the company. At nearly the same time, Intel
DDR5 pricing in German retail has stopped climbing in the last few days. Based on the latest snapshot from 3DCenter using Geizhals “cheapest available” listings, the average price level across 20 DDR5 products is only +0.1% higher than in mid-January, even though individual kits still fluctuate.
That pause is visible across multiple common capacities and speeds. Several mainstream options are flat to slightly down versus
Five fresh user reports that describe Ryzen 9000 CPUs dying or refusing to POST on ASRock AM5 motherboards. The cases span Ryzen 5 9600X, Ryzen 7 9700X (two reports), Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and Ryzen 9 9950X3D across B850 and X870 series boards
OCBASE has announced a partnership with Intel that adds a new processor tuning feature inside OCCT, timed with Intel’s Xeon 600 Granite Rapids workstation launch . The idea is to put tuning and validation in one place, without requiring separate tuning utilities.
The new tool starts with Intel CPUs, beginning with Granite Rapids. However, OCCT will not stop adding other architectures, including AMD, because the goal is to have one software for all processors. OCBASE
SAPPHIRE has just teased a new graphics card, seemingly a special edition for their new NITRO series. We dug and found what model this is exactly.
Sapphire and AMD are tying a new Radeon release to Crimson Desert from Pearl Abyss, and the themed card now shows up as a NITRO+ model. We have found evidence that a new NITRO+ model is coming. Many retailers are already listing the exact name for this new model: SAPPHIRE
Nintendo has published updated sales charts for the quarter ending December 31, 2025. The company reports 7.01 million Switch 2 hardware units in the October to December quarter. Total Switch 2 hardware sell-in reaches 17.37 million units for the April to December period.
That holiday-quarter figure is slightly below the original Switch’s first holiday quarter. The Verge reported that Switch moved 7.23 million
The Redditor bought what was advertised as a 2TB Samsung 990 PRO from a known local distributor contact. The drive looked normal after installation. Windows detected the SSD as a Samsung 990 PRO 2TB. CrystalDiskInfo also looked convincing. It reported NVMe, firmware 0B2QJXD7, and a “Good” health status. The first odd detail was the link speed, which showed PCIe 3.0 x4 instead of PCIe
Today Intel is announcing the Xeon 600 Processor family for workstations codenamed Granite Rapids. The lineup targets single-socket systems with high core counts. Intel also focuses on high I/O for multi-GPU and storage-heavy builds.
The flagship listed is the Xeon 698X . Intel lists 86 cores and 172 threads. Cache is 336MB of L3. Base clock is 2.0 GHz. Intel lists up
ACEMAGIC has started promoting the Retro X3 mini PC through an official Weibo post. Retro X3 follows the earlier Retro X5 reveal, but uses a Ryzen 7 H 255 instead of a Ryzen AI chip. The system is also now available for preorder in China.
The Ryzen 7 H 255 is an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 4 part with boost clocks up to 4