ZOTAC packs GeForce RTX 5070 Ti into 8.5 liter compact desktop, €2000 for barebone config

ZOTAC ZBOX MAGNUS ONE EU27507TC packs desktop RTX 5070 Ti

ZOTAC has rolled out a new ZBOX MAGNUS ONE barebone called EU27507TC. It pairs a desktop GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card with an Intel Core Ultra 7 265 processor. The compact system is already on sale in China as a barebone for about $2,970 without memory or storage.

The MAGNUS ONE EU27507TC uses a 2

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Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Arrow Lake-S Refresh shows 24-core config in new Geekbench leak

Intel Arrow Lake Refresh coming soon

Fortunately or not, Intel is following its plans to launch new SKUs for its desktop platforms.

What seems likely to be the last major update for the LGA-1851 socket, the Core Ultra 200K Plus series is resurfacing on Geekbench. We previously leaked specs for three SKUs: the flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus and two other variants, 270K Plus and 250K Plus. This leak focuses on the 270

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AOOSTAR MAX+ 395 Mini-PC features 140W TDP mode, 128GB LPDDR5X-8533 memory and 2800+ USD price tag

AOOSTAR NEX395 now listed in China at a very high price

AOOSTAR has launched the NEX395 mini PC in China, built around AMD’s top Strix Halo chip, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 . The system now ships in a revised chassis, after the company confirmed that the retail design would differ from the unit first teased in July.

The headline feature is memory. NEX395 ships with 128 GB of LPDDR5X running at 8,533

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Redditor shows rare NVIDIA Dusk & Down demo unit with GeForce FX 5950 Ultra GPU

Nostalgia PC running NVIDIA Dusk & Dawn demos from a time before GPUs chased AI

A retro hardware collector has brought back a demo kiosk from the GeForce FX era, complete with looping Dawn and Dusk tech demos. The system was taken home from a workplace around 2005 and was originally powered by a GeForce FX 5950 Ultra card. The owner still has the original FX board, which stands out with a brass I/O bracket and a matching brass decorative rail along the top, suggesting this was

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WebGPU is now supported by all major browsers

WebGPU could bring AAA games to browsers in 2027

WebGPU has cleared its last big hurdle. The new GPU API is now enabled in stable releases of Chrome and Edge on Windows, macOS and ChromeOS, Chrome on Android, Firefox on Windows and macOS, and Safari on macOS, iOS, iPadOS and visionOS. In practice that gives developers a single GPU API they can target across all major browser engines.

WebGPU is the successor to WebGL and is built on top of modern native APIs like Direct3D 1

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ASRock Radeon RX 9070 Challenger drops to record-low $509

ASRock Radeon RX 9070 non-XT at $509

Newegg has reduced the price of the ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 9070 CL 16G to $509 , which is marked as the lowest price in 30 days and sits well below both AMD’s $549 MSRP and ASRock’s own $635 reference price for this model.

The Challenger card is a full-size ATX design with a triple fan cooler and a 220W

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Intel

Intel Panther Lake confirmed in Advantech industrial PC, Core Ultra 300 CPUs appear on PassMark

Intel Core 300 series on PassMark

Panther Lake CPUs with incredibly confusing names.

Intel’s next mobile lineup has started to show up in public benchmarks. PassMark entries list several Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” CPUs, including the Core Ultra 7 366H, Ultra X7 358H, Ultra 7 365, and Ultra 5 332. The 366H and X7 358H both use 16 cores with 18 MB of L3

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ASUS quoted $4,661 CAD to replace RTX 5090 ASTRAL over tiny PCB crack, customer calls it design flaw

Tis but a scratch: ASUS cites a “surface irregularity” to deny RTX 5090 ASTRAL warranty and quote a $4,661 CAD replacement

It almost seems like we are writing about strange RMA cases involving GPUs every day now, and each is equally interesting and confusing for us and users involved.

A new RMA dispute over an ASUS RTX 5090 ASTRAL has raised fresh questions about how the company handles warranty claims on its flagship GPUs. The owner of the very heavy card submitted it

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Lenovo CES 2026 Sphere event to feature NVIDIA, Intel and AMD CEOs

Lenovo brings Tech World to CES 2026 with Sphere keynote stacked with chip CEOs

Lenovo is turning its annual Tech World conference into one of the headline acts of CES 2026. The company will host a keynote at the Sphere in Las Vegas on January 6 at 5 p.m. PST , combining its own product launches and AI roadmap with a large scale visual show tailored to the venue’s 16K wraparound screen. It is only the second year CES has used the Sphere for an

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Aetina launches NVIDIA RTX Pro “Blackwell” MXM GPUs, just not for gamers

Aetina brings NVIDIA Blackwell to MXM modules with RTX PRO 500 and 5000 GPUs

Aetina has introduced a new CoreEdge MXM AI Accelerator Module series based on NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell Embedded GPUs. The first cards are the MX500B-QA and MX5000B-XA, both using the MXM 3.1 standard for compact edge systems. It is good to see a modern MXM form factor for the latest GPUs again, even if these are professional accelerators rather than gaming cards

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