AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB drops to $339 for Black Friday

ASUS Dual Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB non-OC drops to $339 in Amazon Black Friday deal

Amazon US has cut the price of the ASUS Dual Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB GDDR6 graphics card to $339.98 for Black Friday, down from $399.99 .

This offer is for the 16GB model, not the 8GB version that shares a similar name. The listing is for the standard DUAL

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Intel

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K drops to $429, Core Ultra 7 265K now at $245 for Black Friday

Intel Core Ultra 200K desktop CPUs get up to 38% off for Black Friday

A big price cut just before the Core Ultra 200K Plus series arrives.

Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop lineup is now discounted for Black Friday, with three unlocked Core Ultra 200K models hitting some of their lowest retail prices to date in the US. At the time of writing, the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K is down from around 599.99 USD to

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GMKtec EVO-T2 Mini PC pairs Intel Core Ultra 300 “Panther Lake 12Xe” with 128GB LPDDR5X memory

First Mini-PC with Panther Lake appears at Intel Connection event in China

Panther Lake-based mini PC planned for Q1 2026 with up to 128GB memory and dual PCIe SSD slots.

GMKtec has unveiled its EVO-T2 mini PC at Intel’s conference 2025 in China. The compact system is built around Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake H 12Xe3 mobile processor and is expected to reach the market in the first quarter of 2026.

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Intel

AMD Ryzen AI 7 450, Ryzen AI 9 465 leak confirm Gorgon Point as Strix/Krackan refresh

AMD Ryzen 400 Series starts to appear on Bapco benchmark page

Ryzen 465 and 450 SKUs now confirmed.

We now have three Ryzen 400 SKUs that leaked in a single week. This is the ultimate confirmation that AMD will not change the naming of the upcoming mobile CPUs , but this time they have a good reason not to. The upcoming series, codenamed “Gorgon Point”, will not be a major upgrade over “Strix Point”. The chips will be nearly identical, with

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NVIDIA releases GeForce Hotfix Driver 581.94 to fix Windows 11 KB5066835 performance drop

NVIDIA rolls out GeForce hotfix for game performance drops

NVIDIA has released GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 581.94 to address game performance issues reported after the Windows 11 October 2025 update KB5066835. The hotfix is built on the recent Game Ready Driver 581.80 and is available as a separate download through NVIDIA support channels. The company states that the package targets a single issue, where some games show lower performance after installing the latest Windows 11

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NVIDIA replaces user-damaged $10K RTX PRO 6000 card, used PCIe boards now sold in China

NVIDIA replaces broken RTX PRO 6000 again, third-party PCIe boards now appear in China

NorthridgeFix has posted an update on the $10,000 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell card that became unusable after its modular PCIe board snapped during transport. The same repair shop now confirms that NVIDIA has offered a replacement unit for the owner , mirroring an earlier case where a GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition with a damaged PCIe connector was also replaced by the company.

Both failures were

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Qualcomm claims 90% game compatibility and 50% faster gaming than Intel Core Ultra 2 series for Adreno X2 GPU

Qualcomm now ready to treat gaming on its Snapdragon laptops seriously

The company claims massive performance uplift and better game compatibility at launch.

Qualcomm has detailed its new Adreno X2 GPU for the Snapdragon X2 Elite PC platform, claiming up to 2.3× higher gaming performance than the previous Snapdragon X Elite and a clear lead over current integrated GPUs from Intel and AMD. The company also says more than 90% of the most played Windows games will run on the new Arm laptops at launch.

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Apple Silicon|Intel

AMD Ryzen AI HX 470 “Gorgon Point” mobile processor spotted with 5.25 GHz turbo clock

Good news, everyone: AMD is not changing naming for the Ryzen mobile series

A new SiSoftware Sandra entry has revealed the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 APU , confirming that AMD will keep the current Ryzen AI naming scheme for its next mobile refresh. The chip is listed with Radeon 890M graphics, 12 cores and 24 threads, and a 5.25 GHz boost clock. That is a 150 MHz bump over the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, which uses

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PowerColor warns of 2026 GPU price hike, urges buyers to upgrade before year-end

Gamers prepare your wallets for Black Friday, it may be your last chance to buy a GPU at a good price, suggests PowerColor

We might have the first confirmation of the supposed GPU price hike reported by Chinese Board Channels sources . As a recap, the story was that GPU makers are now expected to increase pricing due to unexpected price increases for memory components. As some of you may already know, NVIDIA and AMD do not sell just GPUs to board partners – they sell a GPU and memory bundle, which makes the

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ASUS rolls out AGESA 1.2.7.0 BIOS for AM5 800 series, prepares Zen 5 desktop APUs

AMD Ryzen 9000G launch at CES very likely

ASUS has released new UEFI updates for its AM5 800 series motherboards with AGESA ComboAM5 PI 1.2.7.0. The latest public BIOS builds are described as improving compatibility with various CPUs and devices, without naming any specific processors.

The same AGESA branch first appeared in beta form in October and was quickly linked to AMD’s next wave of Zen 5 desktop APUs. SMU checker entries for ComboAM5 PI 1.2.

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