Valve’s Steam Deck OLED is out of stock in the US, and reportedly in some regions in AsiaThe RAM crisis appears to be the culprit, as Valve is likely facing memory and storage shortagesValve is yet to officially confirm why its OLED handheld is out of stockAs Valve continues to prepare for its upcoming Steam…
Corsair has new packaging for its DDR5 RAMSome kits are in a sealed plastic clamshell rather than a cardboard boxLower-tier RAM still comes in the old box, but a security label is being addedCorsair has introduced countermeasures with its product packaging designed to foil scammers who are stealing memory sticks by swapping them out for…
Sapphire’s PR manager, Edward Crisler, urges consumers to avoid panic buying during the RAM crisisRAM prices are reaching unprecedented levels due to AI demandCrisler predicts pricing stability for RAM in the next six to eight monthsConcerns of RAM prices spiraling out of control due to the AI boom are running rampant among PC consumers, especially…
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A new rumor suggests a purported Nvidia RTX 5080 32GB GPU was planned for cloud servicesThis supposedly didn’t happen due to the GPU BIOS being leaked to the consumer marketA launch of a new RTX 5080 GPU with more VRAM is highly unlikely due to the ongoing RAM shortageWith CES 2026 on the horizon, as…
Nvidia commented on GPU supply woes in a Q&A at CES 2026CEO Jensen Huang admitted that bringing back older GeForce GPUs could be a possible solutionHowever, a more likely avenue could be to make new AI tech (elements of DLSS) available to older graphics cardsNvidia might consider bringing back some older GPUs as part of…
China is introducing new export controls on rare-earth elementsThose elements are used in making a whole lot of PC componentsThis could exert further pricing pressures on the makers of those components, on top of already-existing market forces pushing up the cost of drives and RAMIf you didn’t want to hear more negativity about further pressures…
Apple’s M5 has appeared in a benchmark leak with GeekbenchIt posted an impressive single-core result for CPU performance, beating out Qualcomm’s powerful Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme SoCThe M5 is also shown getting the better of some beefy desktop CPUs, but we need to tread carefully hereIf you were wondering how fast Apple’s new M5 chip…
AMD no longer supports RX 6000 or earlier GPUs in its driversThose graphics cards are now in ‘maintenance mode’ so they don’t get new features or game optimizationsThey’ll still receive security patches, but these GPUs being pushed out of full support so soon has not gone down well with gamers who have themAMD is stopping…
Nvidia’s rumored RTX 5000 Super refreshes have been cannedFresh speculation claims the GPUs have been ditched due to poor VRAM supply levelsThe 3GB modules of GDDR7 required for the Super GPUs are better used in AI graphics cards, we’re toldNvidia may have canceled its RTX 5000 Super refresh going by the latest from the grapevine…
Nvidia’s RTX 5000 Super refreshes are now rumored to arrive in Q3 2026A previous rumor that they were canceled has been denied by three separate sourcesThese GPUs still remain a rumor themselves, with no concrete confirmation or info piped through to graphics card makersNvidia’s RTX 5000 Super refreshes aren’t canceled, but they won’t be here…
