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Tom's Hardware reviewed the HyperX Omen 35L gaming desktop in a top-spec configuration priced at $6,211, featuring an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor, Nvidia RTX 5080 graphics card, and 64GB of DDR5 memory. The review praises its black-and-white design, quiet operation, and 4K gaming performance, while noting that entry-level configurations offer weaker value.
Newegg is selling the Alienware Aurora DACT1250 gaming desktop for $2,599.99, down from $3,849.99. The machine pairs an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU with 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM, a 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 285 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD.
Palit issued a statement rejecting claims that its Galax factory, which produces Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs, had closed due to insufficient chip supply. The company said operations continue as normal, no facilities have been shut down, and Galax products remain available through domestic and international retailers. The denial follows a report from a Spanish outlet alleging Palit could no longer supply enough Nvidia chips to sustain Galax production.
Palit, which owns the Galax GPU brand, issued a statement denying reports that it was shutting down the Galax factory due to insufficient RTX 5000-series chip supply from Nvidia. The company said Galax continues normal operations, no manufacturing facilities have closed, and products remain available domestically and internationally. The claim originated from a Spanish outlet citing industry sources.
A benchmark comparison tested AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT against the older RX 7900 XTX flagship across 51 games, using a Ryzen 7 9800X3D test system with 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory. The results show the two cards deliver very similar gaming performance overall, with only a handful of titles showing notable differences.
A benchmark compared viiwork's kv_share feature on two RTX 5090 machines connected via 1 GbE, a direct 10 GbE cable running Tailscale, and the same 10 GbE cable sending kv_share traffic directly. The test ran a coding-agent workload building a todo app, measuring 12-session and 16-session runs over 90 minutes to see how network speed affects whether a session's cached prompt reaches a second host before it's needed.
Walmart is currently selling the MSI Crosshair 16 gaming laptop for $1,249, a $750 reduction from its $1,999 list price. The machine features a 16-inch QHD IPS display at 240Hz, an Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU with 8GB VRAM, an Intel Core i7-14650HX processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a 512GB NVMe SSD.
Developers have released Linux kernel modules—gpu-unlock, gpu-unlock-ada, and turing-unlock—that rewrite speed-select registers on Nvidia RTX 20-, 30-, and 40-series GPUs before the driver loads, removing a hardware-level cap on FP32-accumulate tensor math that Nvidia normally reserves for workstation cards. Benchmarks show gains ranging from roughly 12% to nearly 2x depending on card and workload, with an RTX 3090 Ti jumping from 87.5 to 157.4 BF16 TFLOPS and an RTX 4090 doubling its raw FP16 instruction rate, though real-world matrix workload gains are smaller.
Lenovo has released the Yoga 9n, a convertible 2-in-1 laptop that emphasizes stylus functionality beyond what most competing tablets or laptops offer. A review of the device notes it comes at a steep price while delivering performance that reviewers found underwhelming relative to its cost.
Newegg is selling an Alienware Aurora ACT1250 desktop for $2,199.99, down from $3,269.99, a $1,070 price cut. The configuration includes an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 GPU, an Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF processor, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD.
Modders have released firmware exploits that remove Nvidia's artificial half-speed limit on FP32-accumulate matrix math for RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GeForce cards, according to VideoCardz. The unlock lets the RTX 4090 reach double its normal tensor rate and boosts the RTX 3090 Ti's matrix math by up to 80%, though gains vary by card and chatbot token speeds stay roughly the same since those depend on memory bandwidth rather than compute. Three separate projects—gpu-unlock, gpu-unlock-ada, and turing-unlock—provide unofficial Linux kernel modules covering different GPU generations, with experimental Windows builds also in development.
Best Buy has cut the price of Acer's Predator Helios Neo 16S AI gaming laptop, with the 16GB RAM configuration now $2,224.99, down $550 from $2,774.99. The 32GB RAM model drops to $2,399.99, an $800 reduction from its $3,199.99 list price. Both versions pair an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor with Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti GPU and a 16-inch 240Hz OLED display.