The board was spotted at a retailer listing alongside the X870A PURE.
Sapphire’s Nitro+ X870EA WiFi PhantomLink motherboard has now been spotted at retailers, confirming its market positioning. The board appeared with a price of 1382 PLN in Poland, which converts to around 281 USD once Poland’s 23% VAT is excluded.
That puts Sapphire’s first X87
It’s been a while since Intel shared any benchmark charts, especially for its Core Ultra 200S desktop series. The company has repeatedly admitted that the Arrow Lake architecture did not meet expectations, particularly in gaming. Intel eventually introduced something called 200S Boost, an official set of optimizations said to improve performance without voiding the warranty.
In late August, ASRock released a new BIOS for its AM5 motherboards. The update, listed as version 3.40, was long overdue and promised to address the dying CPU issue. However, based on Reddit threads, users are still reporting problems, especially with Ryzen 9000X3D series processors. In some cases, though, systems are not running the latest BIOS.
As we mentioned before, ASRock’s biggest problem is not the lack of effort
Palit has announced its first GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card with one fan, the StormX. This model is designed for small form factor systems with a compact length of 169.9 mm, but still offers the full performance of this… otherwise slow chip.
The card ships with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit interface, running at 20 Gbps for 320 GB/s bandwidth
AI-Generated Cheap ASUS GPU, Source: VideoCardz
Yes, I know our design probably won’t win the competition, but we aren’t even joining, so your chances are already higher. ASUS is running a new competition that asks you to design a new graphics card for its 30th anniversary. The company recently announced its new RTX 5090 ROG Matrix, and apparently, it wasn’t impressed with the response.
MicroCenter reached out to let us know they are offering three RTX 50 cards at record low prices. We have no affiliation with the store, and while it’s unusual that they sent the links themselves, this may still be of interest to those who can actually buy the cards.
Starting with the RTX 5080 WindForce from Gigabyte, it is now available for $899, which is $
GPD, AYANEO, and now OneXPlayer will have Ryzen AI MAX+ powered gaming handhelds. So far, only GPD has introduced its system, but despite the efforts of partnered content creators, the device is not gaining much attention due to its very high price.
The Apex gaming handheld has not been fully revealed yet. For now, there is only a teaser from the company’s social media confirming
Chinese company Minisforum has confirmed pricing for its new MS-S1 MAX small form factor PC powered by AMD Strix Halo. The official retail price is set at $2879, but the system will launch at $2299. As with many Minisforum promotions, this looks more like a fake discount than a real launch deal, since prices rarely change afterward. Either way, both
AMD has released a public preview of ROCm 6.4.4 that enables PyTorch to run natively on both Windows and Linux for Radeon RX 7000 (RDNA 3) and RX 9000 (RDNA 4) GPUs , as well as select Ryzen AI 300 “Strix” and Ryzen AI MAX “Strix Halo” APUs. This follows through on the company’s Computex 2
Nintendo Switch at home?
Both MSI Claw A8 and ASUS ROG Xbox Ally systems are powered by the same AMD Strix Point–based Ryzen Z2 Extreme APU, although ASUS includes AI in the name and has the NPU enabled. MSI rushed to launch the first system with this APU and succeeded, however, as is typical for MSI, the launch was segmented by region and the Claw A8 is still not officially available in the US.
MSI seems unaware of this and
