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Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI may increase their motherboard prices in Q3 2026

The big three Taiwanese manufacturer are reportedly on the brink of raising motherboard prices in the face of spiralling costs.

Steam Hardware Survey shows 16GB VRAM GPUs and eight-core CPUs are the new majority among gaming PCs

More Steam users have eight CPU cores or more at their disposal, but there's still a ways to go before 16GB of VRAM or more becomes the norm.

HWiNFO to add per-chip VRAM temperature monitoring for AMD and Nvidia GPUs

AMD Radeon RX 5000 and newer plus Nvidia GDDR6X/7-equipped graphics cards are getting per-chip memory temperature monitoring in HWiNFO.

An Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti survives a car crash and lives to tell the tale

Repair shop fixes severely bent Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti graphics card, whose GPU and VRAM survived a car crash thanks to the card’s tiny PCB.

AMD Zen 6 CPUs will introduce new tech to improve 1% low performance, according to rumour

Upcoming Zen 6 cores may be able to offer more consistent frame rates, with features that specifically improve 1% low performance.

Philips launches a slew of business monitors equipped with Windows Hello-ready webcams and USB docks

Philips expands its business monitor lineup with new 24in and 27in models featuring USB Type-C docking and daisy-chain capabilities.

Rumour points to tantalising AMD Zen 6 Low Power cores being a smorgasbord of many previous architectures

AMD Zen 6 Low Power cores are said to match or exceed their Zen 5 equivalents, made using bits from the Zen 5, 4, 3, and 2 architectures.

Radeon RX 9050 review paints AMD’s new GPU as up to 27% slower than GeForce RTX 5050

Falling behind the RTX 5050 in raster workloads, and even further with ray tracing, the RX 9050 isn't shaping up well as an alternative graphics card.

Windows-like Task Manager comes to Apple macOS, thanks to a former Microsoft engineer

The guy who created Windows Task Manager is making a version for Apple Macs, with per-core CPU monitoring and startup app management.