This RTX 5080 “rocks”

A Reddit user says a Best Buy order for an ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 5080 ended with a box of rocks instead of a $1,200 graphics card. The buyer placed the order on 25 November and received it on 28 November. According to his post, the card shipped with shipping labels stuck directly to the retail GPU box, no outer brown carton, and a seal that already looked tampered with.

Inside, he found four

AMD documents EPYC Embedded 2005 “Fire Range” and future “Venice” Zen 6 CPUs

AMD’s public Technical Information Portal has quietly added two new EPYC Embedded families, confirming that the EPYC Embedded 2005 series is based on the same “Fire Range” silicon as upcoming Ryzen 9000HX chips and that a higher-end “Venice” line with Zen 6 cores is on the way. The discovery was first spotted by X user @InstLatX64.

Under the Embedded

First NVIDIA 590 driver released, support for GTX 10/900 series dropped

The first driver is for Linux OS, Windows release may be imminent.

And so it begins, the official deprecation of the older GeForce architectures has now started. Back in July, NVIDIA announced that its upcoming (at the time) 580 driver branch would be the final branch supporting the GeForce GTX 900 (Maxwell) and 10 (Pascal) series. NVIDIA also dropped support for Volta, but

NVIDIA launches ARC Raiders GeForce RTX 5090 giveaway under GeForce Season campaign

NVIDIA is giving away a custom wrapped ARC Raiders GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition as part of its ongoing GeForce Season of RTX holiday campaign. The card is featured in a new ARC Raiders DLSS 4 highlight post, and the giveaway is tied to the broader GeForce Holiday 2025 Giveaway sweepstakes that includes several custom wrapped RTX 5090 FE cards and other prizes.

To enter, users must head to NVIDIA GeForce social

AMD board partners reportedly notified of $20/$40 price increase for Radeon 8GB and 16GB respectively

AMD’s next round of Radeon GPU price hikes is starting to take shape, with a new report from Chinese Board Channels claiming that board partners have already been told to prepare for higher costs. According to the post, several AMD graphics card brands have notified their channels that the “first wave” of increases will add around $2

Thermal Grizzly’s Delta Mate waterblock install leaves memory label imprint on pads, here’s what likely happened

Andreas Schilling from Hardwareluxx shared a photo on X (Twitter) of a Thermal Grizzly Delta Mate waterblock installation that briefly gave him a scare. The shot shows the bundled thermal pads after removal, with clear memory markings transferred onto the pads. At first glance it looks as if the pads had ripped the memory chips off the PCB, which would be a disaster for any graphics card or motherboard.

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Cooler Master Alpha ready for very large (and heavy) GPUs

Cooler Master is preparing a new COSMOS flagship, the COSMOS ALPHA, and one of its key changes targets modern oversized graphics cards. The full-tower chassis integrates a GPU support bracket that spans the entire width of the case and is rated for cards up to 400 mm in length.

Based on the “COSMOS 2025” prototype shown at COMPUTEX 2025, the COSMOS ALPHA keeps the large-format design of previous COSMOS

Intel W880 motherboard with up to four Ethernet ports

MSI IPC has introduced the MS-CF20 V2.0 , an ATX industrial motherboard built around Intel’s 15th Gen Arrow Lake-S processors and the Intel W880 chipset. The board supports Core Ultra U9, U7, U5, Pentium and Celeron CPUs and offers four DDR5 UDIMM slots for ECC or non-ECC memory, up to 5600 MT/s and 256

Intel discrete GPUs back on the menu

Intel Arc discrete GPUs have reached 1% market share in the desktop add-in board market, according to the latest Jon Peddie Research (JPR) report cited by TechPowerUp. Intel had hovered around roughly half a percent since Arc “Alchemist” entered the gaming segment, so this small numerical step is the first time Arc appears as a full single digit in JPR’s discrete GPU charts. AMD and NVIDIA still control the remaining 99% of the market , but the move