Electronics hobbyist Blighted Agent bought a 2x16GB SK hynix DDR5-5600 SODIMM kit for $120 and transferred its memory chips onto blank desktop DDR5 PCBs bought from AliExpress, creating a working 2x16GB DDR5-7800 desktop kit. Total parts cost came to about $175, including PCBs, heatsinks, and reballing materials, with the process involving desoldering the chips with hot air, reballing them, and remounting them onto the new boards along with the SPD and BIOS chips.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-20
Best Buy is selling the iBuypower Slate Gaming PC for $899, down $300 from its $1,199.99 list price. The build includes an Intel Core Ultra 5 225F processor, an Intel Arc B570 GPU with 10GB of VRAM, 16GB of DDR5 memory, and a 1TB NVMe SSD.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-20
Tom's Hardware reviewed Gigabyte's X870 Aorus Infinity, a limited-edition 40th-anniversary motherboard built for extreme overclocking with a two-DIMM layout, onboard voltage read points and OC buttons. The board includes eight rear USB ports, three M.2 slots, four SATA ports, 5 GbE networking and Wi-Fi 7, and Gigabyte lists support for DDR5-11400 with manual tuning. In testing with a Kingston DDR5-6000 kit, it delivered average-to-above-average results in productivity and gaming benchmarks.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-16
Corsair is now selling its 32GB (2x16GB) Vengeance RGB DDR5-5600 memory kit for $409, a $108 reduction, directly through its own store. The kit features CL40 latency, RGB lighting, and Intel XMP profiles, and has been confirmed as the cheapest currently available memory kit at this speed tier.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-16
Newegg is selling a CyberPowerPC GM70929 gaming desktop for $2,259.49, down from $2,549.99. The system pairs AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU with an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB Gen4 NVMe SSD.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-16
With DDR5 memory, NVMe SSDs and GPUs all seeing sharp price increases online, Micro Center's roughly 30 U.S. brick-and-mortar locations are reportedly offering better value through bundled component deals than major online retailers like Newegg, Amazon and Best Buy. The report notes an Nvidia RTX 5090 currently sells for $6,549.99 from a third-party Amazon seller, far above its $1,999.99 launch MSRP.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-15
Newegg has launched a new three-item PC component bundle combining AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB of G.Skill Trident Z5 NeoX DDR5-6000 RAM, and an MSI X870E Tomahawk MAX Wifi motherboard for $1,094, a $249 discount off buying the parts separately. The bundle also throws in a free Cooler Master Elite Liquid 240mm AIO cooler, valued at $79, to cool the 120W processor.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-15
Newegg is offering a PC component bundle including an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, a Gigabyte Aorus X870E Elite WiFi7 motherboard, 32GB of Team T-Force Delta RGB DDR5-6000 memory, and a 2TB Team Group NV5000 SSD for $1,165.99. The deal also includes a free Cooler Master Elite Liquid 240mm AIO cooler and a copy of Capcom's Onimusha game, with Newegg stating the bundle saves $358.98 versus buying the parts separately.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-14
A 32GB DDR5 6000 memory kit, widely used as a benchmark for mainstream PC pricing, now costs $449.97, up from $400 in August. RAM prices overall have risen more than 500% since last year amid an AI-driven component shortage, though cheaper options like a 32GB DDR5 4800 kit remain available at $399.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-14
Walmart is selling the CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme, built with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, 64GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 4TB SSD, for $2,739.99, down from $4,179.99. That amounts to a $1,440 reduction, roughly 34% off the listed price.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-13
CXMT president Cao Kanyu said the Chinese memory maker plans to ship its first 4F²-based product, a server DDR5 RDIMM, before year-end, though speeds and capacities remain unannounced. The chip uses a denser vertical-transistor cell layout, called Vertical Surrounded Gate, that shrinks cell area roughly one-third versus current 6F² designs, and CXMT says it holds over 300 patent families related to the technology.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-13
Walmart is selling the Gigabyte Gaming A16 Pro laptop for $1,449, featuring a 16-inch 2560x1600 IPS display, Intel's Core 7 240H processor, a mobile RTX 5070 Ti GPU with 12GB VRAM, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD. The machine also includes HDMI 2.1, USB-C with DisplayPort, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.2.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-13
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