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Newegg is offering a combo deal pairing AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU with an MSI MAG X870E Tomahawk Wifi motherboard and 32GB of G.Skill Trident X5 NeoX DDR5 RAM for $1,094.99, a $248.99 discount off buying the parts separately. The bundle also includes a free MSI MAG Coreliquid A13 240mm AIO liquid cooler.
IT vendor Core 4 Solutions has put a 300-rack AI compute cluster up for sale on eBay for $59.7 million. The system includes 9,600 Nvidia A100 40GB accelerators and 4,200 AMD EPYC Rome 64-core processors, totaling 268,800 CPU cores and roughly 1.4 petabytes of memory, with shipping options including free FedEx Ground delivery.
Amazon is currently selling Samsung's 34-inch Odyssey G5 curved gaming monitor for $150 off its usual price. The display features a 1000R curved VA panel with Ultra WQHD resolution (3440 x 1440), a 21:9 aspect ratio, up to 165Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, AMD FreeSync Premium, and HDR support.
Newegg is offering a four-part PC component bundle including AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, a Gigabyte X870E motherboard and a 2TB SSD for $1,180.99, a $358.99 discount off combined individual pricing. The deal also includes a free MSI MAG Coreliquid A13 240mm AIO cooler and a year of McAfee software.
Digital Foundry's podcast and leaker Kepler_L2 suggest Sony may have some form of exclusive or priority access to AMD's upcoming mobile RDNA 5 architecture for its next PlayStation handheld, codenamed Canis. Rival devices like a possible Xbox handheld or Steam Deck 2 may instead rely on AMD's less advanced RDNA 4m chips, reportedly branded Ryzen Z3 and Z3 Extreme, expected around early 2027.
A leaked GeekBench 7 result for AMD's unreleased 256-core EPYC 9996, built on Zen 6c cores, was compared directly against a Ryzen 7 9700X (Zen 5) clocked at the same 4.1GHz by enthusiast 326powah. The EPYC 9996 packs 128MB L3 cache per 32-core CCD across eight CCDs for 1GB total L3, plus a 1024-bit memory bus offering roughly 1.64 TB/s of bandwidth, though the test focused on single-threaded performance where bandwidth isn't a major factor.
In a recorded October 24 fireside chat with CASPA president Jimmy Cheng, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said he has spoken with AMD CEO Lisa Su about potential areas of collaboration, though he did not specify what those might involve. Tan also laid out plans to rebuild Intel's CPU business, customize chips for specific customer workloads, and grow its foundry customer base.
ASUS and Microsoft have released the ROG Xbox Ally X20, a higher-end version of last year's ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld. It keeps the same AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme chip and 24GB of LPDDR5X memory, but adds an OLED display, TMR joysticks, an adjustable D-pad, and a transparent plastic shell, priced at $1,300.
AMD's Travis Kirsch told MyNavi Tech+ that CEO Lisa Su championed reviving the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which required reworking manufacturing with TSMC despite the chip's 2022 origins. Kirsch said the decision predated the current DDR5 shortage and was meant as a final DDR4-compatible upgrade option for longtime AM4 users.
A new Entrepreneur analysis compares three local AI hardware options for developers: NVIDIA's DGX Spark, built on 128GB unified memory and the Grace Blackwell GB10 chip, offers the most mature CUDA-based software compatibility but has slower memory bandwidth at 273 GB/s. The piece frames local AI machines as tools for data privacy, cost control and predictable performance rather than replacements for cloud-based large-scale training.
Best Buy is selling Acer's 27-inch Predator XB27OU QD-OLED gaming monitor for $329.99, a $50 discount. The display offers 1440p resolution, a 240Hz refresh rate, a 0.03ms gray-to-gray response time, and support for AMD FreeSync Premium and HDR10.
AMD has released the Ryzen 5 5500F, a six-core, 12-thread Zen 3 chip with a 4.4 GHz boost clock priced around $100. Unlike the base Ryzen 5 5500, it is built on the Vermeer die rather than Cezanne, giving it PCIe 4.0 support and an 8% average gaming performance gain, alongside a 10% jump in multithreaded performance.