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Amber chart drawn to scale: a 4TB portable SSD's street price climbing from its $199.99 invoice to the above-$500 listing reported in August 2026, with a dashed reference line on the same scale at the $199.99 the warranty refund pays and a bracket marking the gap between them. Headline reads SSD warranty refunds, $200 back, $500+ to replace.

Hardware August 29, 2026

What an SSD Warranty Actually Refunds in a Shortage

A failed drive is now settled by a clause most buyers never read, YMTC wants the NAND crown by 2027, and Samsung's new Odyssey OLEDs change subpixels rather than headline numbers.

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Two columns drawn to scale on one baseline: an amber column for the revived RTX 3060 12GB at $479.99 beside a shorter green column for the faster RTX 5050 at $299.99. Headline reads revived RTX 3060, $480 vs a faster $300.

Market & Pricing August 28, 2026

The Revived RTX 3060 Costs More Than a Faster Card

Two months after the RTX 3060 12GB came back, it lists above a faster RTX 5050. NVIDIA’s $279 billion in purchase commitments…

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Blue four-stage sequence on a dark graphite grid, three solid markers joined by arrows to a fourth drawn as an empty outline: hidden DLSS-NR driver entries, the DLSSNR runtime shipping inside a game build, and modders running it in Control, with NVIDIA's own DLSS 5 release still unfilled. Headline reads DLSS 5 runs early, NVIDIA hasn't shipped it.

Drivers & Software August 28, 2026

Modders Ran DLSS 5 Early After Its Runtime Shipped in NBA 2K27

The DLSS 5 neural rendering runtime shipped inside an NBA 2K27 early access build, and RenoDX contributors had it running in Control…

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Two price columns to true scale sharing one baseline, $999 and $1,299, the second splitting into the same grey base plus an amber $300 band.

Gaming August 27, 2026

The ROG Xbox Ally X20’s Extra $300 Buys a Display and a Card Slot

Asus prices the OLED Ally X20 above the Ally X without changing the chip, DXVK-Sarek adds a shader-compilation choice for pre-Vulkan-1.4 hardware,…

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Headline above a donut ring whose green arc is exactly 30.3 percent of the full circle, AMD share of the whole client x86 market, to scale.

Hardware August 26, 2026

AMD Clears 30 Percent of Client x86 While DDR4 Sells Intel’s Older Chips

Mercury Research put AMD past 30 percent of client x86 for the first time, and two Intel chips returned to Amazon's top…

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A staircase of pixel blocks whose last step is 5.85 times the height of the first, the roughly 485 percent year of DDR5 retail increases drawn to scale.

Market & Pricing August 25, 2026

DDR5 Closes a 500 Percent Year, and NVIDIA Sells at RRP While Supplies Last

US DDR5 kits close out a year of roughly 500 percent gains, monitor vendors warn distributors, and the one place selling RTX…

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Ten cells in two rows of five, one per confirmed RTX demo on the Gamescom show floor, while the stream itself stays unannounced.

Drivers & Software August 25, 2026

GeForce On Streams Today With DLSS 4.5 Expected, and Zen 6 Reaches Linux Early

NVIDIA's Gamescom stream airs with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction widely expected, and AMD's Zen 6 overclocking plumbing reaches the Linux kernel months…

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