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Newegg is selling the ASRock Phantom Gaming PGO27QFV, a 27-inch QHD QD-OLED gaming monitor, for $349, a $50 discount off its $399 list price. The display features a 360Hz refresh rate, 0.03ms response time, VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400 certification, and a built-in Wi-Fi antenna supporting Wi-Fi 4 through 7.
Tom's Hardware reviewed ASRock's B860 Challenger Wifi, a $149.99 ATX motherboard built on Intel's budget B860 chipset that supports Arrow Lake and Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs. The board includes eight rear USB ports capped at 5 Gbps, three M.2 slots with one PCIe 5.0, four SATA ports, 2.5 GbE, Wi-Fi 7, basic audio, and a dated BIOS, paired with weaker power delivery than rival boards.
Overclocker Luumi set a new HWBot world record for the Intel Core i5-4670K in Cinebench R11.5, scoring 10.8 cb on a multicore run and dethroning a record that had stood for 12 years. The Haswell-era quad-core chip was pushed to 6,301 MHz using liquid nitrogen cooling on an ASRock Z97 OC Formula board with 4GB of XPG DDR3 and a Corsair AXi 1600 power supply.
The ASRock PGO32UFS Phantom Gaming Monitor, a 32-inch 4K OLED display, is now priced at $596 on Newegg, down from its $899 list price. The panel supports dual-mode switching between 4K at 240Hz and Full HD at 480Hz, with a 0.03ms response time, 1,500,000:1 contrast ratio, FreeSync Premium Pro, and DisplayHDR True Black 400 certification.
A tech writer describes switching to an MSI MPG 321URX 4K OLED gaming monitor, now priced around $634, after years of holding off due to high costs. The piece notes that early 4K OLED monitors like the Alienware AW3423DW and LG UltraGear 32GS95UE launched near $1,300-$1,400, while competitors such as the ASRock Phantom Gaming PG032UFS now sell for about $596 and a 1440p option, the Acer Predator X27U, is under $300.
ASRock's X870E Challenger Wifi White is a $230 AM5 motherboard offering USB4 ports, Wi-Fi 7 with 160MHz support, 5 GbE networking, four M.2 slots (one PCIe 5.0), two SATA ports and a 23-phase VRM. Tom's Hardware testing found average-to-below-average benchmark performance, partly because its primary DDR5-6000 RAM kit wasn't officially supported and required a secondary kit for testing.
A Reddit user reported that his GeForce RTX 5090 stopped working after the 12V-2x6 connectors melted on both ends of the modular cable bundled with his ASRock 1600W power supply. He says the card was running stock BIOS settings with a reduced power limit and was idle when the failure occurred, yet PNY denied his warranty claim within a day, citing use of a non-PNY-approved cable.
The ASRock Phantom Gaming PG27FFT1B, a 27-inch 1080p IPS monitor with a 180Hz refresh rate, is currently listed at $96.77, down from $159.99, marking its lowest price yet. The panel supports HDR400, AMD FreeSync, a 1ms response time, and covers 94% of the DCI-P3 color space.
A growing cluster of leaks—including a partner slide detailing launch timing and platform specs, ASRock Z990 motherboards appearing in a shipping database, and SiSoftware listings for an HP EliteBook X with an unnamed Intel chip—point to Intel's next-generation Nova Lake processors nearing release. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has said the lineup will arrive in the second half of 2026, and executive Robert Hallock has called it one of the company's most important launches ever.
A hobbyist bought two ASRock BC-250 mining cards from AliExpress for £126 and £103 respectively, and successfully unlocked all 40 compute units on both despite AMD's binning meant to disable some cores. One card also unlocked all 8 CPU cores, while the other had one faulty core, but both performed well running the gpt-oss-20b language model via llama.cpp, hitting up to 100 tokens per second at 8K context.