GIGABYTE’s mystery Intel motherboard from Computex may not be an AORUS MASTER model after all. PCWorld has published more footage from the GIGABYTE booth and managed to capture the label on the back of the PCB.
The board is identified as “ AORUS Z990 PRO ,” according to the footage. This is the same board we covered earlier, where GIGABYTE kept the CPU socket hidden and did not confirm the chipset or
AIO cooler, now with more PC.
TCOMAS is pushing AIO cooler displays into new territory. At Computex 2026, the company showed several 360mm liquid coolers with large pump-block decorations, including one that looks like a small PC mounted directly on top of the CPU.
The main design is called CUBE D3. This cooler uses a three-sided block with a 4-inch main display, a 1.3-inch secondary
Intel adds 7 more games to Binary Optimization Tool.
Intel has released a new update for its Binary Optimization Tool, adding support for seven more games. The update is part of Intel Platform Performance Package version 26.06.100.32, released on June 8.
According to Intel, the tool now supports 19 games in total. The newly added titles are Hollow Knight: Silksong, Homeworld 3, Little Nightmares III
Valve’s Steam Frame software has appeared online through what is said to be an early Welcome Tour video.
The clip was posted on Reddit by user gogodboss and is credited to LabeVR. The post says the footage was recorded on a Valve Index, so this is not a direct capture from the unreleased Steam Frame headset.
The video appears to show the first-run tutorial users will see when setting up Steam Frame. According to Notebookcheck, the
The port is not enough.
DisplayPort 2.1 is now common on high-end graphics cards and monitors, but the cable can still decide whether users actually get the full UHBR20 link. TechSpot shows that a DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR20 monitor connected to a GeForce RTX 5090 may silently fall back to a lower-bandwidth mode when the wrong cable is used.
Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .
BenchLife expects the update in early 2027.
BenchLife now says NVIDIA’s rumored GeForce RTX 50 SUPER refresh may appear at CES 2027. This is later than the 2026 window mentioned earlier. The RTX 50 SUPER rumors recently got back on and now reportedly includes a GeForce RTX 5060 12GB model.
These cards will
CPU-Z has received another point update, this time adding support for Intel Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme processors based on Panther Lake.
CPUID now lists version 2.20.2 for Windows x86/x64 on its official download page. The only new entry marked for this release is support for Intel Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme. These are Intel’s Panther Lake-based chips
© VINCENT199411 A Ryzen 9 7950X3D owner claims AMD rejected a warranty request after the CPU showed visible swelling on the back of the package. The failure reportedly happened while the system was idle, not during gaming, BIOS flashing, or manual tuning.
According to the owner, the system was built in May 2023 and used a Gigabyte X670E AORUS MASTER motherboard, Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-6
All in Expansion Card, a PCIe add-in card based on AMD’s Promontory 21 chipset. This is the same chipset family used for AMD AM5 motherboards, including B650 and higher-end dual-chipset X670/X870 designs.
The card is priced at $199 without additional cables. WisdPi also lists a 40 cm OCuLink-to-OCuLink cable and a 40
AV2 full specification is now public.
AOMedia has published the final v1.0.0 specification for AV2, the next royalty-free video codec after AV1. The public AV2 page now lists “AV2 specification and reference code, v1.0.0” as the current release dated May 28, 2026.
This replaces the January 5 working draft that was covered