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HP has cut $2,200 off its Omen Max 45L gaming desktop, dropping the price to $4,799.99 for a complete system built around an RTX 5090 GPU, 64GB of DDR5 RAM, a 2TB SSD, and an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor. That price is roughly $30 less than what the RTX 5090 graphics card alone currently costs at retail, making the entire prebuilt machine effectively cheaper than one of its components.
Prosecutors in Keelung, Taiwan have indicted nine people, including employees of Nvidia and Super Micro, for allegedly conspiring to illegally export high-end AI servers to China. Officials say the group knowingly circumvented the companies' export compliance procedures for personal profit, raising corporate compliance costs and damaging Taiwan's international standing.
Nvidia is due to report quarterly results that investors and analysts see as a key indicator of whether enthusiasm for artificial intelligence spending can be sustained. The results come amid growing scrutiny of whether massive capital outlays by tech companies on AI infrastructure are translating into durable returns.
Nvidia has informed top customers that server systems built around its Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin AI chips will cost more than 15% extra when they ship early next year, according to a Bloomberg report. Contract manufacturers serving Microsoft, Google, and Oracle have already passed along the increases, which vary by chip generation and memory configuration.
An Exxact listing has confirmed pricing for Nvidia's DGX Station desktop tower, the Valence VWS-158270643, at $94,930 to start. The system pairs a GB300 Superchip—Blackwell Ultra GPU with 252GB of HBM3e memory—with a 72-core Grace CPU over NVLink-C2C, adding 496GB of LPDDR5x RAM for a combined 748GB of unified memory. Nvidia had unveiled the machine at Computex 2026 without disclosing a price, leaving partners like Dell, HP and Exxact to quote figures individually.
A Reddit user reported finding a PNY GeForce RTX 5080 OC graphics card marked down to $702.56 at a local Walmart, well below its $1,249 listed price and Nvidia's $999 MSRP. The buyer verified the box contents matched the correct model and found the card in good condition before purchase.
YouTuber TrashBench cut apart the stock coolers on Nvidia GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080 Ti cards and bolted on a dual-tower CPU cooler with extra fans instead. The frankenstein setup dropped GPU temperatures by as much as 32°C, cut power draw by roughly 30W, and boosted overclocked frame rates by about 9% in Shadow of the Tomb Raider.