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One unlucky Redditor was twice sent an empty box instead of a CPU
18+ hour, 10+ min ago (333+ words) They call it the 9600X ghost edition. One exceedingly unlucky Redditor ordered a Ryzen 5 9600X on Amazon only to have an empty box show up instead. After getting a refund and purchasing a second AMD Ryzen 5 9600X, that too seemed to be an…...
The rest of this year is going to suck even harder for GPU pricing, says the biggest GPU maker
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (321+ words) One of the biggest manufacturers of graphics cards has noted in its results that the second half of this year is going to suck for GPUs. A couple weeks back I noted that I'd been tracking GPU prices on an…...
Nearly 20% of PC Gamer readers would spend $1,000 or more on their next GPU purchase
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (367+ words) We've been tracking graphics card prices for the past twelve months and after yet another pricing surge last week, there's been a wave of depression sweeping the PC Gamer offices. It's Nvidia GPUs that have been hit the hardest, with…...
A $5,000+, liquid nitrogen-cooled RTX 5090 has smashed the 3DMark Port Royal world record
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (422+ words) In news only nerds like me will care about (which is pretty much my raison d'être at this point), the world record for the highest 3DMark Port Royal score has been smashed. Shattered. Thrown into the mud. Soundly beaten. Okay, so…...
The GPU market is such a mess, the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB currently costs more than an RTX 5070
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (441+ words) Graphics card prices are surging, but GeForce cards have been hit the hardest. Prices for graphics cards are still on the rise. Just last week, we noted prices were at the worst we've seen them in the past 12 months, but…...
Looks like you have to go AMD to get a cheap high-end gaming PC these days
1+ week, 1+ day ago (544+ words) AMD rigs seem to be holding out stronger against the memory shortage. Well well well, if it isn't an RX 9070 XT gaming PC coming in to show up all the rest of 'em. This is an incredible price for such…...
We've been tracking graphics card prices for exactly one year and it's never been worse than this
1+ week, 4+ day ago (722+ words) And I don't know where we go from here. Any positive thoughts welcome. We first started tracking the prices of individual graphics cards on August 14, 2025, and since then we've checked on an almost weekly cadence (we've got to have holidays,…...
The top five tiers of Nvidia's GPU stack are now priced out of all proportion
1+ week, 4+ day ago (402+ words) Nvidia's 12 GB RTX 5070 and 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti cards have now priced themselves out of all reason. The big Nvidia price hike has begun and I think we can quite categorically state that if money means anything to you, you should…...
Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) review
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1813+ words) The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 2026 is a fantastic 16-inch gaming laptop. There you go, review over, we can all go home. But wait, because it's got a serious flaw that should make you hold your fire before pressing the order button....
AMD's new chipset drivers are failing to install on various machines, but there's an easy fix
2+ week, 4+ day ago (418+ words) Something's borked with the AMD Install Manager, it seems. Keeping on top of chipset driver updates is a boring, but necessary part of maintaining a modern PC. Unfortunately, both myself and fellow hardware nerd Jacob Fox have run into an…...