TrashBench is back with another short experiment in questionable but entertaining GPU cooling. This time he moved from full submersion stunts to a more targeted approach for an RTX 3070 and an older GTX 960. The goal was simple: push both cards with sub-zero cooling using whatever parts he had on hand.
The mod starts with a Thermalright Peerless Assassin CPU air cooler. TrashBench strips off the fins
Samsung Electronics’ GDDR7 DRAM has received a presidential commendation at the 2025 Korea Tech Festival in Seoul, recognizing the company’s 12-nm-class GDDR7 device with 24 Gb capacity and a data rate of 40 Gbps. The award, granted by Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources, highlights Samsung’s graphics and AI-focused DRAM at a time when demand for AI inferencing hardware
Philips is joining the high refresh rate race with the Evnia 27M2N5500XD, a new 27-inch gaming monitor built around a 1440p panel that can run at up to 500 Hz. The display also supports a special low-resolution mode that boosts refresh all the way to 1,000 Hz at 720p, pushing
Valve has now clarified why the new Steam Machine spec sheet only lists HDMI 2.0, even though the hardware is wired for HDMI 2.1. The company says the port is capable of HDMI 2.1, but SteamOS cannot expose the full feature set because of how the HDMI 2.1 standard is licensed and how Linux display drivers are built.
The root of the problem is the HDMI Forum’s stance
Onexplayer confirms to be working on such a device through a pre-release leak.
A new leak points to a new ONEXPLAYER X1 variant built around Intel’s Core Ultra 5 338H , bringing the Panther Lake platform to a handheld for the first time. The CPU information comes from a test device that reports a 12-core chip inside an X1 system, branded as Core Ultra 5 338H. The listing shows a base clock of 1.
AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D keeps showing up in new leaks, and its specifications now look consistent across multiple sources. Earlier reports from shipping manifests and AMD’s own driver site already outlined an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 “Granite Ridge” part with 96 MB of L3 cache, a 120W TDP and boost clocks up to 5.6 GHz , positioned as a faster
ROG laptops at CES 2025, Source: ASUS
ASUS has now confirmed its dedicated Republic of Gamers showcase for CES 2026 . The newly published ROG landing page promotes a “Dare To Innovate” livestream on January 5 at 3:00 p.m. PST, with parallel times of January 6, 7:00 a.m. in Taipei and midnight in Berlin.
CES 2026
Two recent support cases show two very different faces of NVIDIA customer service. One involves a workstation RTX PRO 6000 Blackwel card worth around $10,000 that was damaged in transit and still got replaced. The other is about a brand-new GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition with a broken 12VHPWR retention clip, where the owner was told
This went under the radar, but apparently Intel is now ready for Big Battlemage, the elusive BMG-G31 GPU that has been in rumor headlines since the end of 2024. It looks like the launch of this card may finally be coming. For the first time, Intel has put the name of this graphics processor on a software update page, not hidden in a changelog for some open-source Linux update.
The name of this GPU appeared in VTune Profiler.
GIGABYTE has released a new F18 BIOS for its Z890 motherboards, adding support for upcoming Intel desktop CPUs. The update, dated December 1st, is based on microcode 0x11B, which Uniko’s Hardware notes is newer than the previous 0x11A code used since October. ASRock is already listing even newer 0x11D firmware for its boards, but