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An RTX 5090 Founders Edition owner reported that Nvidia rejected their RMA request after keeping the crashing GPU for over a month, citing an unreadable serial number on the card's metal bracket. The owner insists the card was never opened or tampered with, and other Reddit users say they've noticed similar fading on their own Founders Edition cards' printed serial numbers.
Microsoft is holding a San Francisco event on October 7 focused on local AI's role in future PCs, with Satya Nadella, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, and Windows chief Pavan Davuluri all attending. The event is expected to reveal more about the Surface Laptop Ultra, a device powered by NVIDIA's new RTX Spark chip that was announced in June without pricing or release details.
Microsoft has scheduled an event in San Francisco on October 7th to discuss how local AI will influence the next generation of PCs. CEO Satya Nadella and Windows/Surface chief Pavan Davuluri will attend, alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, hinting at a focus on RTX Spark PCs and possibly Surface Laptop Ultra pricing details.
Asus is selling its ROG Edition 20 anniversary bundle—including the ROG Astral RTX 5090, a Crosshair X870E motherboard, a 3000W Thor Titanium PSU, and an open-frame case—for $10,849.96 on Newegg. With standalone RTX 5090 stock nearly gone in the US and third-party resellers charging close to $10,000 just for the card, this fully-loaded bundle now works out to be one of the least expensive ways to obtain the GPU.
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.
Perplexity has expanded its Portable Computer agent, previously Linux-only, to Windows through partnership with Nvidia. The tool requires a GeForce RTX or RTX PRO GPU with at least 24GB of VRAM plus a Perplexity Pro or Max subscription, and runs multistep agent tasks locally instead of in the cloud. The Windows release adds scheduled recurring tasks, local MCP servers for desktop apps, connectors for Word, Drive, Gmail, Slack and GitHub, and one-click local model downloads.
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.
Nvidia's RTX 5090 has vanished from first-party retail listings at Newegg and Amazon, leaving only third-party marketplace sellers offering the card at prices ranging from roughly $6,400 to $8,700, with some listings even higher. This marks a sharp jump from the $4,299 median price seen in June and the $5,199 low tracked in early September, with stock disappearing entirely within about two weeks. Micro Center remains the lone major retailer still selling the card near its typical price.
Nvidia has introduced the RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, a professional graphics card built on the same GB202 die as the GeForce RTX 5090 and offering similar CUDA core counts and performance. The key difference is memory: the RTX Pro 5500 carries 84GB of GDDR7, 2.6 times more than the RTX 5090, positioning it between the existing RTX Pro 5000 and RTX Pro 6000 in Nvidia's professional lineup.
A Reddit user on r/pcmasterrace posted photos of two abandoned crypto mining rigs found in a basement, containing a dozen Zotac RTX 3070 graphics cards along with DDR4 memory, SSDs, power supplies and MSI Z390 motherboards. The rigs had been used for Ethereum mining during the pandemic and sat unused after home mining stopped being profitable, with the owner giving them away once asked.
A Reddit user known as Tsuto says weekly visits to their county landfill's electronics recycling area have yielded enough discarded SSDs, HDDs, GPUs, RAM and even a laptop to assemble a working Proxmox home lab server. The rig combines scavenged parts—mirrored 256GB SSDs, a 1TB SSD, and three 2TB HDDs in RAID1 for ZFS storage—with a Core i7-7700 and 64GB of RAM bought separately on Amazon. Tsuto also salvaged an Asus ROG laptop with a GTX 860M GPU, fixed with a $25 replacement battery, for casual gaming.
A modder known as dashdogy has released a workaround that unlocks Nvidia's DLSS Multi Frame Generation feature, normally exclusive to RTX 50-series cards, on older RTX 40-series and earlier GPUs. Tom's Hardware tested the mod in Cyberpunk 2077 and confirmed it genuinely boosts perceived smoothness beyond the officially supported 2X multiplier, complete with the same visual artifacts seen on official 50-series hardware.