Corsair shows AX1600i SHIFT and transparent HX1000i SHIFT CRYSTAL power supplies

SHIFT layout reaches Corsair’s high-end PSU lineup

Corsair has shown two new high-end power supplies at Computex 2026, both built around its SHIFT layout. The new AX1600i SHIFT brings side-mounted modular connectors to Corsair’s 1600W consumer flagship class, while the HX1000i SHIFT CRYSTAL adds a transparent side panel to a 1000W digital PSU.

The AX1600i SHIFT is the more powerful

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CONTROL Resonant PC requirements list RTX 3070 and RX 6700 XT as recommended GPUs

CONTROL Resonant lists GTX 1070 minimum, RTX 3070 recommended

100GB SSD required, full performance targets coming later.

Remedy has shared the first PC requirements for CONTROL Resonant. The game is scheduled to launch on September 24, 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with pre-orders now open.

The PC list starts with Windows 10/11 64-bit, 16GB of RAM and 100GB

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Valve pushes Steam Deck Stable update with Steam Controller and download fixes

Valve updates Steam Deck Stable channel with Steam Input fixes

Steam Controller Puck, LED dimming, and Legion Go LED fixes included.

Valve has released a new Steam Deck Client update to the Stable channel. The update focuses on Steam Controller fixes, download performance, Remote Play, and Steam Input.

The patch improves the controller pairing screen on Steam Deck. Valve also fixed an issue where joystick LEDs did not work correctly on Lenovo Legion Go in some cases, so this is not only a Steam Deck-specific update.

The

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MSI removes the AI cheat features from its MEG X gaming monitor

MSI MEG X keeps AI features, but drops auto-tracking and anti-flash tools

MSI has updated its MEG X gaming monitor concept at Computex 2026. The monitor was previously promoted as the company’s “true AI gaming monitor,” but some of its features were close enough to gameplay assistance that they quickly raised questions.

We covered the MEG X earlier this year , when MSI listed features such as AI Tracker, AI Goggle and AI Scope. Those are now gone, according to ComputerBase.

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Jensen Huang signs GeForce GTX 1080, calls it one of his favorites and says it “changed everything”

Jensen Huang signs GTX 1080 Founders Edition

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has been spotted in Taiwan signing an older GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition graphics card. Huang can be heard calling the card one of his favorites before adding that it “changed everything.”

I have seen some reports which identified the card as a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, but that does not appear to be correct. The video does not show a clear model label (we can only see GTX 1080

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Nobody is buying Radeon RX 9070 GRE in Germany, the card costs more than 9070 with higher specs

AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE priced too close to RX 9070, early sales appear weak

AMD has launched the Radeon RX 9070 GRE globally, but early retail pricing already looks difficult to defend. The card officially starts at $549, the same launch price as the Radeon RX 9070 non-XT.

According to 3DCenter, the first German listings started at €559, while current offers are around €547. The problem is

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PELADN shows GeForce RTX 5090 32GB blower card at Computex

Semi-custom RTX 5090 for server airflow

Source: Uniko’s Hardware

PELADN had an unexpected GeForce RTX 5090 card on display at Computex. The card uses a blower-style cooler and a dual-slot layout, which is rare for RTX 5090-class hardware. The card features standard configuration with 21,760 CUDA cores, 32GB of GDDR7 memory and a 512-bit memory bus. The card is also listed with a

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Intel Wildcat Lake reference laptop uses fanless Frore AirJet Mini for cooling

Intel Wildcat Lake reference laptop uses Frore AirJet Mini for 15W sustained cooling

Fanless cooling for Core Series 3 laptops.

Frore Systems has shown a new implementation of its AirJet Mini solid-state cooling inside an Intel Wildcat Lake laptop reference design . The system uses an AirJet module paired with a vapor chamber to cool Intel’s Core Series 3 platform without a conventional fan.

The reference laptop is reportedly 11.3 mm thick and targets silent operation. Frore says this cooling setup allows 15W sustained workloads and

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AMD had to re-engineer Ryzen 7 5800X3D for AM4 10th Anniversary Edition

Ryzen 7 5800X3D returns after AMD reworks older X3D production method

Same specs, different production work.

AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition is not just a simple return of the 2022 processor, according to AMD’s David McAfee. The company had to rework the chip for a newer 3D V-Cache stacking process after the original production method was no longer available.

As we already reported, AMD confirmed the

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Gigabyte AORUS Arc A770 graphics card cooler leaks, the card was never released

Gigabyte’s unreleased AORUS Arc A770

Gigabyte apparently had more plans for Intel Arc Alchemist than what reached retail.

What would have happened, and how would today’s GPO market look if Intel didn’t delay its Alchemist GPU architecture by a year and deliver lower performance? Well, we may not have the answer to that, but at least now we know that one of the largest GPU vendors did explore launching their gaming card at some point.

A cooler for a never-released Gigabyte AORUS Arc

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