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.
Saya
Saya is an electronics engineer with over 30 years of gaming under his belt and 20 years of work experience. He founded Nvidia Club in 2005 an avid fan of NVIDIA graphics card. When you spend your career debugging hardware from the ground up, you develop strong opinions about GPU architecture, driver stacks, and why certain design decisions aged badly. He built low-level GPU and VRAM diagnostic tools back when that was not something you could just download, ran a forum community that ranged from complete beginners to BIOS tweakers, and never really stopped caring about what NVIDIA puts on the silicon. The site is his attempt to build the reference hub he once founded back in 2005.
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 explains where the memory went.
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 hours later. What the mod actually shows, and what it does not.
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, and Apex Legends needs a launch flag on the RX 9070 XT.
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 ten. DDR5 pricing links the two.
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 50 Founders Editions at RRP is a queue in Cologne.
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 ahead of the silicon.
A Thermal Cutoff in the 12V-2×6 Cable, a 1,000 Hz Panel, and B450’s Return
Corsair puts a thermal switch inside the 12V-2x6 cable, LG's 1,000 Hz UltraGear needs a DisplayPort 2.1 card before anything else, and Gigabyte quietly lists new B450 boards for DDR4 holdouts.
Market Watch: Every RTX 50 We Track Now Sells Above MSRP
Our tracked US retail medians put all eight RTX 50 cards above launch MSRP, CPUs below it, and a 64GB DDR5 kit above the price of an RTX 5070 Ti.
The CMP 170HX Gives Back 56GB, and Hydra Lifts RTX 50’s Memory Ceiling
A GPL tool restores the HBM2e NVIDIA disabled on the CMP 170HX mining card, and Hydra's preview build raises RTX 50 memory clocks and power limits. What each one unlocks, and what it costs to use.