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AX Gaming, an Inno3D subsidiary, has unveiled a seasonal limited-edition GeForce RTX 5070 12G graphics card decorated with anime artwork, maple leaf motifs, and ARGB lighting. The standout addition is a scent-emitting component the company calls 'e-sports aromatherapy,' claiming users can detect an autumn-like fragrance even when the card is powered off.
Newegg is discounting its in-house ABS Stratos II Ruby prebuilt gaming desktop by $300, dropping it from $2,899.99 to $2,599.99. The machine pairs AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, alongside 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory and a 2TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD.
Developer The Coalition released final PC system requirements for Gears of War: E-Day ahead of its October 6 launch, confirming that upscaling is used across all three preset tiers—Minimum, Recommended, and a newly added Ultra category. The Ultra tier targets 4K at 60+ FPS with an RTX 5070 Ti or Radeon RX 7900 XT paired with high-end CPUs, while storage requirements were trimmed from 130GB to 115GB and Intel Arc GPUs were dropped from the official hardware list despite XeSS 3.0 support.
A fresh round of testing pits the Radeon RX 9070 XT against the GeForce RTX 5070, replacing the earlier RTX 5070 Ti comparison now that pricing has shifted. The 9070 XT sells for roughly $730-$750 while the RTX 5070 starts near $800, giving Nvidia's card about a 9% price premium. Across games like 007 First Light, the 9070 XT posted performance leads of 36% to 46% over the RTX 5070.
Best Buy has launched a Labor Day sale offering steep price cuts across gaming laptops, desktop PCs, monitors and a MacBook. Highlights include hundreds of dollars off machines from Gigabyte, Acer, Lenovo and Asus, with savings reaching as high as $900 on select gaming laptops and $600 off gaming PCs.
An early, unofficial leak of NVIDIA's upcoming DLSS 5 technology has surfaced, showing its neural rendering applied to games like Control and Skyrim. The AI-altered faces look strangely aged or overly realistic while clashing with untouched, lower-poly bodies and stiff animations, producing an uncanny visual mismatch. Testing also showed a steep performance cost, with Control's frame rate reportedly dropping from 71 fps to 35 fps at 4K on an RTX 5070 Ti when Neural Rendering was enabled.
MSI's new Katana 15 HX C14 gaming laptop offers a choice of DDR4-3200 or DDR5 memory across two regional variants, a move aimed at keeping prices down amid soaring DRAM costs. The laptop can be configured with up to a 24-core Intel Core i9-14900HX processor and an Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, alongside dual PCIe Gen 4x4 M.2 slots and a cooling system rated for 170W combined power.