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Newegg is offering a two-item combo pairing AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU with an MSI MAG X870E Gaming Max Wifi motherboard for $578.99, down from $727.99. The deal also throws in a free Cooler Master Elite Liquid 240 AIO cooler worth $80, and the discount effectively makes this the cheapest way to get the 9800X3D.
Leaker Kepler_L2 claims AMD's upcoming RDNA 5 graphics architecture will include its own neural lighting technology, similar to Nvidia's DLSS 5. Because next-gen consoles are expected to use AMD chips, this feature could bring neural rendering to the PS6 and the next Xbox rather than staying limited to high-end PC cards.
Leaker Kepler_L2 says most of Nvidia's next-gen RTX 60 series and AMD's RDNA 5-based Radeon 10000 lineup won't launch until 2028, with AMD's midrange AT2 chip as the sole exception still on track for 2026. The claim contradicts an earlier report from Moore's Law is Dead suggesting Nvidia's RTX 6090 could arrive in early 2027, and AMD board partners have reportedly given inconsistent timelines ranging from late 2027 to early 2028.
A community of Linux modders has been reworking the AMD BC-250, a cheap leftover mining GPU built from a cut-down PlayStation 5 chip, into a functional PC gaming card. The latest breakthrough unlocks all 40 of its RDNA 2 compute units and packages AMD's FSR 4 upscaling and frame generation as a Windows DLL that can be dropped into compatible games.
A developer benchmarked how Intel, AMD, Arm and Apple processors handle IEEE 754 subnormal floating-point numbers—the tiny values near zero that require special handling. Testing double-precision arithmetic on Intel Granite Rapids and Emerald Rapids Xeons, AMD Zen 5, AWS Graviton, and Apple M4 Max chips, the results showed Intel processors suffer dramatic slowdowns, sometimes 40-plus times slower, when computations involve subnormal values compared to normal ones.
Microsoft released an out-of-band patch to address problems introduced by its September 2026 Windows 11 update, which had shipped with new taskbar and Start menu customization features alongside nearly 1,000 security fixes. The rollout caused crashes on AMD Radeon GPUs, audio input/output failures, Remote Desktop instability, and Explorer black-screen issues after login. The emergency update addresses several of these regressions, though the AMD GPU crashes were not explicitly called out as fixed.
Microsoft released an emergency cumulative update, KB5129195, to fix several problems caused by September's Patch Tuesday release, which had patched nearly 1,000 vulnerabilities but broke Remote Desktop Services, Linux VM support, and some USB audio devices. The fix restores RDP connections, repairs the Host Compute Service used by apps like Claude Cowork to run Linux virtual machines, and partially restores 8-channel and 3D audio modes. However, AMD Radeon GPU crashes and File Explorer failures reported after the same update remain unresolved.
Walmart is offering a $560 discount on CyberPowerPC's all-white Gamer Supreme desktop, bringing it down to $1,859.99. The build pairs AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D with an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 2TB SSD, aimed at 1440p gaming.
AMD's Gigabyte Gaming Radeon RX 9070 GRE, a 12GB RDNA 4 graphics card, has dropped to $499 at Newegg through a promotional email code, matching its lowest price ever recorded and undercutting its $569.99 list price by $70. The card uses a cut-down Navi 48 chip with 48 compute units and 220W power draw, delivering strong 1080p and solid 1440p gaming performance in prior benchmarks.
A review of System76's Pangolin Pro laptop highlights its large glass trackpad, a basic 2-MP webcam, and an easily accessible chassis secured by nine visible screws that allows users to upgrade RAM, SSDs, and WiFi cards. The review also notes that AMD Ryzen chips still lack Coreboot support, meaning the laptop doesn't run fully open firmware, and praises the bundled Pop!_OS Linux with its Cosmic Desktop for a smooth daily-use experience.
A Reddit user reported months of black screens and system instability on their AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX before discovering burn marks on the card's 8-pin power connector after disassembling their PC. Notably, the connector was routed through a Thermal Grizzly WireView power monitor meant to prevent such damage, and while the monitor took the brunt of the melting, it kept the GPU itself from being harmed.
New cost-per-frame analysis across 10 countries shows Nvidia's GeForce cards have risen in price more sharply than AMD's Radeon or Intel's Arc lineups, eroding Nvidia's value proposition for gamers. At original MSRP, Intel's Arc B580 and AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT offered the best value in the budget segment, while AMD's RX 9070 XT beat Nvidia's RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti on cost per frame in the mid-to-high end.