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An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition owner says part of the graphics card’s heatsink unexpectedly detached after the PC was moved, leaving the cooling assembly partially exposed. The GPU was reportedly purchased in August 2023 and had apparently been operating normally before the incident. According to the owner, one section of the heatsink near the PCIe connector separated from the rest of the

A German PC gamer says a second hand AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D caused an immediate Valorant ban because the processor had allegedly been blacklisted by Riot Games' Vanguard anti cheat system under its previous owner. The CPU itself reportedly worked without any problems. The issue appeared only after the buyer launched Valorant, which had worked normally with the system's previous processor. According to the

Microsoft is expanding its Advanced Shader Delivery technology across Windows 11, with Gears of War: E Day becoming the first game to support the feature across a broad range of AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, and Qualcomm hardware. Advanced Shader Delivery, or ASD, is designed to reduce one of the more frustrating problems in modern PC gaming: long shader compilation times and the stutter that can

A rare engineering sample of AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 9 5900X3D has appeared online with a different cache configuration than the version previously shown by AMD. The processor reportedly features 12 cores, 24 threads, and 128MB of total L3 cache. That is lower than the 192MB configuration associated with earlier Ryzen 9 5900X3D samples, but the newly surfaced chip also appears to run at noticeably

CD Projekt Red has published a full set of PC system requirements for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered, and one row stands apart. The Path Tracing tier is the only configuration in the chart that names a 3D V-Cache processor. Geralt inside a cathedral in Remastered, showing the reworked lighting. Image: CD PROJEKT RED That part is the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Every other

EmuDeck pushed version 2.7.1 of its app to the public channel on September 29, 2026, and attached no release notes to it. The GitHub release body is empty. EmuDeck's own controls and hotkeys reference, showing a mapped handheld controller layout. Image: EmuDeck The actual 2.7 changelog sits in a separate early access repository, where 2.7.0 was published on September 14, 15 days earlier. That

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D is listed at $349.00 at Amazon, which names itself as the shipper and seller. The figure is not a markdown, because $349 is the suggested etail price AMD set for this version of the chip. Front of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition retail box, with the AM4 anniversary mark. Image: AMD AMD sells the identical part through

Acer's Predator Atlas 7 handheld has reached pre-order, and the number that matters most is missing. Acer's own UK product page lists the handheld with no price and points buyers to select retailers instead of to Acer. Acer's press image of the Predator Atlas 7 being played away from a desk. Image: Acer The Atlas 7 runs Windows 11 Home. That makes it a

Amazon has the AOC C27G4H2 27-inch curved gaming monitor at $99.99, and that price is reserved for Prime members. The buy box labels it a deal price and states that the offer is exclusively for Amazon Prime members. The C27G4H2 stand offers tilt, swivel and 120mm of height adjustment, but no portrait pivot. Image: AOC Anyone without Prime sees a second row in the

Samsung's 990 PRO 2TB is $389.99 at Amazon, or $250 below the $639.99 that Samsung's own store charges for it. The catch is useful rather than fatal, because Samsung's newer PCIe 5.0 drive in the same 2TB size sits only $10 above it at the same retailer. The 990 PRO 2TB is a bare M.2 2280 stick with no heatsink in the box. Image: