Luckily for us, not many reviewers and overclockers follow NDAs. Wherever the source came from, the new screenshot and test results featured the soon-to-be-released Ryzen 7 9850X3D. This is the same 8-core CPU with 3D V-Cache as the 9800X3D, AMD’s top-selling and best-performing gaming CPU for the
Brother Zhang describes a new scam on the Chinese Goofish second-hand platform. Zhang runs a GPU repair shop and received a card from a customer who bought a GeForce RTX 4080 listing that looked too cheap to ignore.
The card arrived with a damaged PCIe connector and a cracked PCB, which can make a graphics card effectively dead. Repair shops see physical damage often, and a successful fix would still make the
A new update to 3DCenter’s memory price index shows that RAM prices in the German retail channel kept climbing into mid-January 2026, based on Geizhals listings and excluding eBay and Amazon Marketplace offers.
DDR5 for desktop PCs remains the worst-hit category. Across 20 DDR5 configurations,
A PassMark entry has surfaced for Intel’s Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus , an Arrow Lake refresh mobile part. The listing is the first PassMark result spotted for this SKU.
PassMark reports a 5,009 single-thread score for the Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus. That result lands close to Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K desktop
ASUS chairman Jonney Shih says the company will stop adding new smartphone models and move R&D toward commercial PCs and “physical AI” devices such as robotics and smart glasses.
Shih made the comments around ASUS’s 2025 year-end banquet on January 16, 2026, in Taipei (pictured above). In a pre-event interview, Shih said “ASUS will no longer add new mobile phone models in
A Chinese hardware modding channel “小宁子 XNZ” built a single custom console that combines a PlayStation 5, an Xbox Series S, and a Nintendo Switch 2. The system shares one power source, one HDMI output, and one cooling setup. A top button cycles the active platform in a few seconds.
The idea started with a simple complaint. Sony,
AMD’s higher-end X670E and X870E chipsets are built from two Promontory 21 FCH chips. Each chip takes a PCIe 4.0 x4 uplink and provides eight PCIe 4.0 lanes plus four SATA 6 Gb/s ports. Those SATA ports can be reconfigured on some boards as additional PCIe Gen 3 lanes. The end result, as described in
Are melted connector cases overblown? If so, why are new cases showing up almost every week? There are so many reports that we have only covered the most severe incidents, or cases involving new cards. Still, the issue may not be as widespread as many think, as some board partners have started openly discussing how many cases they have actually seen.
In a reply in an RTX 50 thread on
ASUS has started previewing the updated UEFI BIOS that will ship with its refreshed AMD 800-series “Neo” AM5 motherboards. ASUS calls this the biggest visual update to the UEFI in about a decade, with a new HD layout and a more modern look.
The UI is meant to provide information faster. ASUS highlights quick access for temperatures, CPU and memory status, boot priority, and
The company remains silent.
At least five Reddit posts from the past two weeks describe AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D systems that stop posting on ASUS AM5 boards, with owners reporting Q-Code 00 as the common endpoint. The board list spans B850 and multiple X870E models, so the reports are not tied to one SKU line.
Across these cases, the stories look similar after the