After nearly a year since the first announcement, RDNA 4 GPUs have finally made their way into the Steam Hardware Survey. Why we had to wait so long is anyone’s guess. We heard several theories, including that Steam may not correctly identify GPU information when two cards are present or when integrated graphics is active, which could have caused AMD’s RX 9000 series to be underreported in the survey
We are just days away from AMD announcing a Ryzen 9000G update at CES 2026, and MSI has been working for some time on making its 600 and 800 series motherboards compatible. While support for Strix Point silicon remains uncertain, it is clear that Krackan support has already been added and will likely serve as the foundation for the 9000G series. These are monolithic Ryzen CPUs with
Acer has posted teaser images for upcoming Predator OLED gaming monitors ahead of CES 2026. There is no full press release yet, so the details below are based on the marketing slides.
The teaser points to high refresh rates and low response times, with OLED panels carrying a VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500 badge. One slide claims “no blur” with a 0.03ms GtG response time. Acer also mentions wide color coverage
A Reddit user claims Corsair canceled his order for a VENGEANCE a5100 without providing a reason, then immediately raised the system’s price when he tried to reorder.
Redditor says he placed the order yesterday as a New Year’s gift and received an invoice at checkout, which he took as confirmation that the purchase was locked in. When he checked his email the next day, he found a cancellation notice . He
Gigabyte is teasing a new GPU.
Teaser image cleaned up by AI
You’d normally say “finally.” Finally, we have some high-end enthusiast GPUs like the ASUS ROG Matrix, the MSI Lightning (expected at CES), and possibly something from Gigabyte as well. But as customers, we are in a rough spot, given the absurd pricing of RTX 5090 cards, now reaching $4,000 . That
Not sure who will be able to afford it, though.
ADATA says it will bring a broad lineup to CES 2026 under the “Advancing Innovation” theme, ahead of its 25th anniversary. The booth is split into three zones: AI Innovation, Smart Living, and Gaming Lifestyle, with an online exhibition scheduled to go live on January 6.
Under a sub-brand TRUSTA, ADATA is introducing
LG Electronics says it will unveil its 2026 LG gram laptop lineup at CES 2026, with a new chassis material called Aerominum and a “dual AI” setup that mixes on-device and cloud features (so no, it’s not CPU/GPU or even GPU/dedicated AI compute).
Aerominum is described as an LG-developed composition
A fresh year, and the melted 16-pin saga is back on the front page. A PCMR user says his RTX 5090 started smelling like burned plastic after a short gaming session.
In the post, he says he played Baldur’s Gate 3 for around three hours, then noticed the smell and found the connector damaged. He also claims the RTX 5090
Dell has not officially confirmed a return of the XPS badge, but the idea is back on the radar ahead of CES 2026. VideoCardz sources confirm that Dell has presented the updated XPS lineup during CES 2026 prebriefing.
Dell ended XPS branding publicly at CES 2025, when it switched to a simpler naming scheme built around Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max tiers. Dell positioned “Premium” as the successor tier that
Zhaoxin’s year-end roundup post includes a short “what’s next” section that name-drops a new Kaixian KX-8000 processor. This is closer to a roadmap teaser than a launch post.
Zhaoxin frames KX-8000 as a value-focused PC and embedded chip, and says it will hit up to 4GHz while adding integrated graphics