ASUS releases 34-inch 360Hz RGB stripe QD-OLED monitor in the US

ASUS has released the ROG Swift OLED PG34WCDN in the US. The monitor is now listed by Amazon for $1,299, months after its CES 2026 reveal.

The PG34WCDN is a 34-inch ultrawide OLED monitor with a 3440 × 1440 resolution, 21:9 aspect ratio and 1800R curve.

Valve moves Steam gift card sales away from retail stores due to scams

Valve is ending the Steam Gift Card program at retail stores, with physical cards set to disappear once current stock runs out.

The company says it will not restock Steam Gift Cards at retail locations. Retailers are expected to sell through remaining inventory by the end of 2026. Existing physical Steam Gift Cards will remain redeemable on Steam, subject to local laws.

Valve introduced Steam Gift Cards to retail stores in 2012. The digital

Lenovo price hike may hit all consumer product lines in July

Lenovo may raise prices again after China’s 618 shopping festival.

Lenovo is reportedly preparing another price increase across its consumer product line in China. According to Finance Sina, the company decided on the change during an internal work meeting in May.

The new pricing is expected to take effect in July, after China’s 618 shopping festival ends . The report claims the increase will apply across Lenovo’s consumer product categories, including laptops,

ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Edition 20 adds ASM58012 controller for four PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 links

ASUS has now listed the full specifications for the ROG Crosshair X870E Edition 20. The page confirms that the board is not just a cosmetic version of the Crosshair X870E Glacial, even though both models use the AMD X870E chipset, an E-ATX form factor and a 24+2+

ROG Crosshair X870E beta BIOS updates to AGESA 1.3.0.1b with EXPO ULL

ASUS has posted new beta BIOS builds for its ROG Crosshair X870E series motherboards. The update is based on AGESA ComboAM5 1.3.0.1b and adds support for AMD EXPO Technology: Featuring Ultra Low Latency.

The files were shared through the ASUS ROG forum, and these are not stable final releases, mind you. The post lists BIOS 2305

3DMark adds native Arm support to DirectX 12 feature tests

Speed Way and Port Royal now run natively on Arm PCs.

UL Solutions has released a new 3DMark update for Windows-on-Arm systems. The update expands native Arm support to more GPU benchmarks and DirectX 12 feature tests.

The main change is native Windows-on-Arm support for Speed Way and Port Royal . Both are ray tracing benchmarks, with Speed Way focused on DirectX 12 Ultimate workloads and Port Royal focused on DirectX Raytracing performance

AYN plans another Thor and Odin 3 price increase

Batch 7 Thor and Batch 8 Odin 3 orders still use UFS 3.1 storage.

AYN is preparing another price increase for its Thor and Odin 3 Android handhelds. The company has opened Thor Batch 7 and Odin 3 Batch 8 pre-orders, but it also warned customers that pricing will rise later this month.

According to an AYN Discord message quoted by Retro Handhelds, the company is “planning a price increase for both Thor and Odin 3 later this month.”

AI finally does something useful: helping keep old Radeon drivers alive

Mesa’s R600 driver gets code cleanup for Radeon HD 2000 to HD 6000 GPUs

Phoronix reports that Mesa’s AMD R600 Gallium3D driver has received 59 commits for Mesa 26.2. The driver supports Radeon HD 2000 through Radeon HD 6000 graphics cards, covering hardware that goes back to the Radeon HD 2900 XT from 20

Intel Z990 chipset photographed, package and power figures detailed

Z990 PCH reportedly measures 25 x 24 mm.

Jaykihn and LC Tech Leaks (and News) have shared new details on Intel’s Z990 chipset, including package size, die size and power figures. The chipset was photographed on an unknown motherboard, but the image does not show enough of the PCB to confirm the board vendor.