AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D is now officially on sale. The review embargo lifted yesterday , and the chip is broadly available today with a $499 list price.
That puts the 9850X3D about $30 above the Ryzen 7 9800X3D’s launch MSRP. Based on early reviews, the generational
GIGABYTE has announced retail availability for the X870E AORUS XTREME X3D AI TOP, an AM5 flagship board built around the AMD X870E chipset and aimed at Ryzen X3D systems.
The main feature callout is “X3D Turbo Mode 2.0.” GIGABYTE describes it as a one-click mode that uses an on-board AI model and hardware circuits to adjust CPU parameters in real time
AMD did not announce the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 at CES 2026, despite expectations that the chip would appear alongside the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. The absence stood out because earlier leaks pointed to a joint reveal. Since then, signs continue to surface that the processor exists and is already in testing.
Leak reports over the past few months
Rumors about a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti production pause have been circulating since the start of this year. NVIDIA denied the claim, and ASUS also pushed back on the idea that supply has been deliberately cut (clearly someone slapped their wrist after initial claims suggesting otherwise).
Two weeks later we check across major US stores, more RTX 5070 Ti listings are landing in four-digit territory. In some cases,
Bazzite has announced a new collaboration effort called the Open Gaming Collective (OGC). The project says some repositories were archived or sunset as part of a shift toward shared maintenance with other Linux gaming projects.
OGC is basically a shared working group for Linux gaming projects that want to fix the same core problems together. The idea is to push upstream changes to common components, so each distro can stop duplicating baseline maintenance work and focus on its
Microsoft just posted FY26 Q2 results, and Microsoft’s only revenue decline came from “More Personal Computing,” with the company pointing to weaker gaming results as the main drag.
Revenue across the company rose, and cloud did the heavy lifting again. Microsoft Cloud kept growing fast, and Azure growth stayed strong. The gap is now obvious: data-center is pulling in far more money than the Windows, Surface,
VASTARMOR has added a product page for the Radeon AI PRO R9700 (model AH-R970032SVCSBR). The listing includes full specs plus a set of official renders and detail images.
On the spec sheet, VASTARMOR lists up AMD reference specs of 2920 MHz boost, 4096 stream processors, and 32GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus, paired with 64
Cooler Master used a recent product event in Huizhou, China to show an AIO concept that moves away from the usual “3 fans in a row” layout. Instead, the cooler uses four 180mm fans arranged in a 2×2 grid, creating a square footprint that works out to roughly 360×360mm.
The company described the design as part of a workstation-focused system build
AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D is a refresh of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The chip keeps an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 layout. The design still uses 3D V-Cache. The main spec change is higher peak clocks, with up to 5.6GHz boost on the 9850X3D versus up to 5.2GHz on the 9
New Statcounter data suggests Windows 11 has lost momentum after taking the top spot last year. Windows 10 is moving up again, at least in the last two months of tracked desktop usage.
Statcounter’s worldwide desktop Windows version chart shows the change month to month: