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Hardware and Technologies Yesterday, 12:45 PM
AMD's product pages for Ryzen 5 7500 for AM5 and Ryzen 5 5500F for AM4 now list a launch date of September 10, 2026, although AMD has not shared pricing or full sales details. -
Hardware and Technologies September 10, 2026, 06:43 PM
A Costco shopper who only stopped in for household supplies ended up with an MSI Aegis ZS2 gaming PC built around an RTX 5080, and the lucky find quickly spread across the web. The buyer, identified on Reddit as Primary-Football642, said the unexpected purchase turned into a viral story. -
Hardware and Technologies September 8, 2026, 07:55 PM
Radeon RX 6000 owners can now try AMD FSR 4.1.1b through a DLL-only OptiScaler workaround, without the user-facing INT8 binary or the OptiScaler utility. The instructions say users need to download the DLL and swap it into the Binaries > Win64 folder in their game. The modified file also bypasses the INT8 check, making the feature a plug-and-play solution. -
Hardware and Technologies September 8, 2026, 10:47 AM
Wccftech reported that Reddit user SpecialistConcept423 saw visible damage on a Ryzen 9 9950X3D after moving it onto an ASUS CROSSHAIR X670E Hero and trying a RAM BIOS preset. According to the account, the processor later showed brown marks, and the system would no longer boot. -
Hardware and Technologies September 5, 2026, 04:17 PM
Roland Quandt says AMD is preparing a new AM5 chip called the Ryzen 5 7500, and he describes it as a plain six-core part with no F, no X3D, or any other suffix. The leak, posted on Bluesky, also points to 5.0 GHz boost speeds and built-in graphics.
According to Quandt, the rumored CPU carries 6 cores and 12 threads, a 3.7 GHz base clock, 38 MB of total cache, and a 65W TDP. The cache is broken down into 32 MB of L3 and 6 MB of L2, which puts it right alongside AMD's existing AM5 six-core parts on paper. -
Hardware and Technologies September 3, 2026, 04:48 PM
VideoCardz says AMD's next Radeon architecture is still far from launch, but a new leak suggests it could be pushing much higher clock speeds than current chips. Insider Kepler_L2 says the target range for RDNA 5 is 3.1 to 3.4 GHz, based on internal AMD material he has seen, though AMD has not announced RDNA 5 Radeon products or confirmed any specifications yet. -
Hardware and Technologies September 2, 2026, 09:52 AM
AMD finally managed to bring FSR closer to DLSS in terms of image quality, but NVIDIA has already changed the very goal of this race. While FSR 4 focuses on image reconstruction, DLSS 5 uses AI to add new details, lighting, and materials on top of an already rendered frame. The cost of this approach is currently steep: on RTX 50 series cards, the tech can eat up to half your performance, and neither AMD nor Intel has a competing solution right now. -
Hardware and Technologies August 31, 2026, 07:56 PM
G.Skill's new Flare X5X memory line for AMD systems centers on AMD EXPO ULL (Ultra Low Latency), a tuning profile aimed at tighter timings. The debut configuration is a 32 GB kit made up of two 16 GB modules. -
Hardware and Technologies August 26, 2026, 06:15 PM
AMD has listed Olympic Ridge as its standard Zen 6 desktop family for AM5 in its Technical Information Portal, with support for both existing and newer AM5 platforms. The company says the new desktop and mobile SKUs are expected to arrive around CES 2027. -
Hardware and Technologies August 24, 2026, 09:46 AM
Der8auer managed to adapt a 2004 Q-Tec KS70 to an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D by 3D-printing a custom AM5 socket adapter, giving the old cooler a chance to run on modern hardware. First released for AMD Athlon and Pentium 4 processors, the KS70 is now 22 years old, but it still proved capable enough for a gaming test. -
Hardware and Technologies August 21, 2026, 06:50 PM
Integrated graphics in modern CPUs have seen a massive leap in performance, gradually eating into workloads that used to be the sole domain of dedicated graphics cards. According to XDA Developers, buying a budget discrete GPU in the $300–$500 range in 2026 is often a tough sell: the latest iGPUs can handle modern games, video editing, and even keep up with current graphics feature sets. -
Hardware and Technologies August 20, 2026, 07:05 PM
AMD has been developing its FSR frame generation tech for several years now, but one of its biggest issues appears to remain unresolved. Hardware Unboxed’s latest testing shows that a high FPS counter doesn’t always mean a genuinely smooth experience — in a number of modern titles, generated frames are delivered unevenly, making a supposed 120 FPS feel worse than a stable 90 FPS without Frame Generation. -
Hardware and Technologies August 20, 2026, 11:12 AM
After several months of relative calm, the graphics card market is once again on the move upwards. The old warehouse stock that allowed stores to hold prices has gradually run dry, and new batches are now arriving with a significantly higher cost. This is most evident on the GeForce RTX 50 with 16GB of memory: some models have shot up by hundreds of euros over the past few months. -
Hardware and Technologies August 19, 2026, 10:43 AM
Thermal Grizzly is offering a professionally modified AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 for buyers who want to skip the delicate part of the process, and it is backing the chip with its own warranty. The company is asking $1,402.83 including VAT for the processor, which is far above AMD's $899 recommended price for the standard model. -
Hardware and Technologies August 17, 2026, 06:40 PM
AIDA64 Extreme beta 8.35.8405 now lists AMD's upcoming Zen 7 server chips in its database, even though the processors are still far from release. The beta arrived on August 16, 2026, and its release notes suggest hardware support is arriving well ahead of launch. -
Hardware and Technologies August 17, 2026, 12:25 PM
ScatterVolt has broken down the current CPU‑GPU pairings and put together recommendations for different use cases — from budget gaming PCs to powerful rigs for 4K, editing, and local AI inference. In some cases, the blogger advises against spending extra on pricier components, since their performance would simply be overkill for the average user. -
Hardware and Technologies August 16, 2026, 04:01 PM
AMD did not send Radeon RX 9050 8GB review samples to journalists, and Hardware Unboxed says the company also prevented partners from forwarding cards to independent reviewers. Even so, the channel managed to obtain one Radeon RX 9050 through side channels and test it, while saying it could not show the card itself, its box, or even name the exact partner model. -
Hardware and Technologies August 13, 2026, 07:05 PM
A Reddit user says a Ryzen 7 7800X3D failed after about three months of use, leaving the chip visibly burned and swollen even on an AM5 system running the latest available BIOS. The machine reportedly shut down while gaming, then fell into a boot loop, and the owner was told to send the CPU through RMA. -
Hardware and Technologies August 10, 2026, 11:49 AM
Cards like the Radeon RX 580 have long been considered veterans of the gaming market, but they still hold their own in plenty of 1080p titles. A new benchmark shows just how much the landscape has shifted over eight years – the fresh Radeon RX 9050 averaged nearly double the performance of the legendary Polaris card across twelve games. And the gap is especially striking in modern heavy hitters, where the RX 580 is already starting to dip into uncomfortable FPS territory. -
RAM crisis pushes buyers to desperate measures: in Taiwan, a flagship GeForce RTX 5090 now comes bundled with four Radeon graphics cards — or you don't get one at all
Hardware and Technologies August 8, 2026, 05:29 PM
Buying an RTX 5090 as a standalone product at Taiwanese retailer PC Home is no longer possible. The seller has put together several bundles, and in each one, NVIDIA's flagship comes loaded down with a pile of components buyers almost certainly don't need. The most absurd option looks like this: an ASUS ProArt GeForce RTX 5090 OC plus four ASUS Dual Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics cards. Want the top NVIDIA card? You're taking home four AMD cards as a bonus, for around $7,720.
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