A customer buying an RTX 5090-equipped PowerSpec workstation at a Micro Center in Tustin, California, was required to sign an 'Advanced Computing Product Purchaser Declaration' before the purchase was approved. The form demands full legal name, address, government ID, phone, email, end-user details, installation location, and intended use, and states Micro Center will not sell to anyone intending to export the product outside the US. Other Reddit users noted this requirement is new, though one buyer said a similar, longer form was required at Central Computers last summer.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-02
Micro Center has begun requiring buyers of PowerSpec Ai90 prebuilt PCs with RTX 5090 GPUs to sign a form and have their driver's license scanned, pledging the system stays in the US and won't be resold or exported abroad. A customer reported the policy started within the last two days at a store, with the form asking for name, photo ID and phone number alongside the non-export pledge.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-02
MSI's Stealth A18 AI+ gaming laptop is currently discounted to $3,779, a $520 saving. The configuration includes an RTX 5090 mobile GPU with 24GB of GDDR7 VRAM, a 12-core AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, 64GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-01
CD Projekt Red has released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered as a free update for existing owners on PC and modern consoles, alongside a native Nintendo Switch 2 version. The remaster overhauls combat, rebalances the skill tree, and upgrades REDengine 3 to support ray tracing and path tracing, improved textures, foliage, lighting and a new photo mode. Reviewers have begun benchmarking GPU performance in the remaster, testing cards from Nvidia's RTX 5090 down to Intel's Arc B580 in the demanding Novigrad city area.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-29
A newly surfaced video shows the private PS5 emulator KyTyPS5 running Demon's Souls Remake at 40-50 FPS with graphics that appear largely accurate, tested on an RTX 5090 and Core i9-14900K system. Just weeks earlier the same emulator managed only 1-2 FPS in gameplay, and struggled to hit 30 FPS a fortnight ago.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-28
Startup WiCi is opening signups for the WiCi One, an external GPU that transmits graphics compute over Wi-Fi 7 rather than requiring cables like Thunderbolt 5 or OCuLink. The device, backed by Nvidia's Inception Program, can reportedly let multiple laptops, tablets and phones share the same GPU for gaming and AI tasks. Shipping is planned for Q4 2026, with an RTX 5060 Ti model starting at $2,000 for early adopters and an RTX 5090 version priced closer to launch.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-27
WiCi has unveiled the WiCi One, an external graphics card enclosure that connects to laptops wirelessly over Wi-Fi 7 instead of using Thunderbolt or OCuLink cables. The base model includes an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPU, an Intel Core 3 100U CPU, and 1TB of storage, with a more powerful RTX 5090-based version planned. Preorders for the base model start at $1,999, rising to $2,599 at full release, with shipping expected in the fourth quarter of this year.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-26
NVIDIA's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, which the company calls its most powerful desktop GPU, now carries a US price of $16,000. That's up sharply from its $8,565 launch price and its earlier $13,250 tag, though NVIDIA has not explained the reason for the increase. The card sits above the consumer-focused RTX 5090 and is aimed at professional users rather than gamers.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-26
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.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-26
Korean outlet QuasarZone tested the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition running Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K with DLSS 5 enabled, recording peak power draw near 650W and a 16-pin (12VHPWR) connector temperature of 91.7 degrees Celsius, higher than the GPU die itself. The RTX 5080 also showed a temperature rise with DLSS 5 on, though smaller in magnitude than the 5090's.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-25
A Redditor reports their PNY RTX 5090, bought last September, died last month after the 12VHPWR cable connectors melted on both the GPU and PSU ends. PNY denied the warranty claim the same day, saying only its own bundled cable or adapter is covered, even though the user used the cable that shipped with their Asrock PG-1600G PSU rather than a random third-party cable. The card was reportedly idling, unmodified, running stock settings and even underclocked when it failed.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-25
A 3D artist bought what they thought was an Asus 30th-anniversary edition RTX 5090 from a used marketplace, only to discover it carried Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's autograph instead. Rather than use the card, they sold it, and it is now consigned to Bonhams auction house, with bidding scheduled for Oct. 4-14, 2026 and an estimate of $10,000-$15,000.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-24
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