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…
RAM price hikes are now worryingly hefty at retailersSome RAM kits are double or closer to triple the cost they were just a couple of months agoThis could have a knock-on effect on the Steam Machine, but rumor has it Sony has played it smart by building up RAM supply for its consoleThere’s a new…
DDR4 RAM is getting more expensiveAI is partly driving that increase in pricing, but it’s also a natural processPrice increases are likely to continueThe PC components market has taken something of a twist as slower last-gen DDR4 memory is now a good deal more expensive than cutting-edge DDR5 RAM – or at least that’s broadly…
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Nvidia has a 94% share of the desktop GPU market according to JPRThat leaves AMD with just 6%, and Intel with next-to-nothingAMD’s problems could be wrapped up in a lack of supply for RDNA 4 GPUs and therefore prices that are over the MSRP, by some way in certain casesNvidia has achieved an even greater…
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The MSI Afterburner tool is getting a feature to overclock RTX 5000 GPUs in new waysIt’ll allow for memory voltage and auxiliary voltage to be pushed up, which isn’t currently possibleWhile it’s only for MSI GPUs to begin with, other card makers will hopefully follow suitThe developer of a popular utility for overclocking graphics cards…
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Nvidia’s N1X chip has been spotted in a Geekbench resultThe specs show the integrated GPU has 6,144 CUDA coresThat equals the RTX 5070 for pure core count, but there’s much more to factor in when it comes to performanceRemember Nvidia’s rumored CPU that caused quite a buzz on the grapevine last year? We’ve apparently now…
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