ASRock puts extra DDR4 slots to its DDR5 H610M COMBO motherboard

ASRock H610M COMBO brings DDR4/DDR5 flexibility to business desktops

ASRock has introduced the H610M COMBO, a Micro ATX motherboard for Intel LGA1700 that targets business and enterprise desktops rather than gaming builds. The board is based on Intel’s H610 chipset and a simple 3+1 power phase design, aimed at office PCs, industrial systems, and OEM deployments that need long-term platform stability more than heavy overclocking features.

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ONIX Arc B580 with 12GB drops to $229, Battlemage marks 1st anniversary

Odyssey B580 from ONIX drops to $229

ONIX has quietly cut the price of its Odyssey Intel Arc B580 12 GB graphics card from $249 to $229 on Newegg, going against the current talk about GPU price increases. The card targets the upper midrange Arc B580 segment with Intel’s Xe2 Battlemage architecture and aims at 1440p gaming. At $229, it becomes one of the cheaper B5

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November Steam Hardware Survey: Linux OS at all-time high, RTX 5070 overtakes RTX 4070

Steam shows growing Linux popularity and RTX 5070 overtaking its predecessor

Steam’s November 2025 Hardware and Software Survey shows Linux hitting a new all time high on the platform, reaching 3.20% of all users. Windows still dominates with close to 95% share, but the small slice of Linux is growing faster than any other OS, helped by the Steam Deck, Proton and a steady flow of gaming oriented distributions like Bazzite and ChimeraOS. The timing also lines up with the

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LYNK+ launches €380 modular AIO cooler for GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs

LYNK+ modular RTX 5090 AIO now shipping but the display version is still missing

LYNK+ is finally bringing its modular, pre-filled GPU liquid cooling system to retail, starting with support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 partner cards in Europe and Japan. The company’s design first showed up in public through der8auer and PALIT , who tested early samples and demonstrated the drip-free quick-connect system. At one point a variant with an integrated display on top of the block

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(Driver) INTEL Arc Graphics 32.0.101.8331

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Micron ends Crucial consumer SSD and RAM line, shifts focus to AI and enterprise

Micron to Retire Crucial Consumer Brand

Micron has announced that it will exit the Crucial consumer business, ending retail and distribution sales of Crucial-branded memory and storage worldwide by the end of fiscal Q2, which closes in February 2026. Crucial SSDs and DRAM kits will continue to ship through consumer channels until then, and Micron says warranty service and support will remain in place for existing products.

For consumers and PC builders, this is a clear loss. Crucial has been one of the best known retail memory

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ASUS ROG Matrix RTX 5090 reportedly hit by “quality issue”, shipments paused

Swedish retailer halts ASUS ROG Matrix RTX 5090 sales

Swedish retailer Inet has informed at least three customer that ASUS has identified a “quality issue” with the ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 32GB ROG Matrix Platinum 30th Anniversary Edition, and that the card will not be delivered as planned. In an email shared on the SweClockers and ROG forum, Inet says ASUS is working on a revised version “without these problems,” but gives no estimate for when a replacement batch might arrive.

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Chinese GPU maker Lisuan demos 7G106 GPU running 3DMark test on Windows on ARM

Lisuan Tech GPU runs 3DMark test alongside ARM-based CPU on Windows on ARM

This is some interesting news from China, because it points to a new path for PC gaming on Windows on ARM. Neither AMD nor NVIDIA offers a Windows on ARM SoC for consumers, so this space is still dominated by Qualcomm platforms. The reason we have not yet seen any Windows on ARM systems running Radeon, Arc, or GeForce GPUs is simple: none of the major discrete GPU vendors has released Windows on ARM drivers for their

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HELLDIVERS 2 PC client shrinks by 131 GB in new “data de-duplication” beta

For Super Earth, for storage: Helldivers 2 PC install drops to 23 GB

Arrowhead has started testing a huge storage cut for Helldivers 2 on PC, dropping the install size from around 154 GB to roughly 23 GB through a new “file size reduction” technical beta on Steam. The change was developed with PlayStation port studio Nixxes and brings the PC build much closer to the console versions in terms of footprint. The beta is already live, and players can opt in through the game’s Steam

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First Intel Arc Pro B60 Battlematrix review demos 8 GPUs with 192 GB of VRAM in one system

Eight Arc Pro B60 cards with combined 192GB VRAM tested

First hands-on testing of Intel’s Arc Pro B60 Battlematrix platform from Storage Review shows a dense local AI setup built around dual-GPU cards with 24GB of VRAM per GPU. Four of these Maxsun dual cards give a workstation up to eight B60 GPUs and 192 GB of total VRA M, aimed at setups that want to run large language models locally and avoid cloud costs or data-sharing

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