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Computex 2026’s second day brought a mix of major platform updates, future networking hardware, and several PC component announcements, but Intel’s comments around Arrow Lake stood out the most. The company openly acknowledged that its last enthusiast desktop launch did not land the way it needed to, especially with gamers, and said Arrow Lake Refresh is part of its effort to rebuild trust before

Intel’s Core i7 6700K was once one of the best gaming CPUs you could buy, but a new overclocking test shows how far modern games and GPUs have moved beyond the old Skylake flagship. YouTuber TrashBench pushed the decade old quad core chip to extreme voltages in an attempt to reduce CPU bottlenecking with an RTX 3080, and while the results improved, the old

AMD has reached nearly 45 percent CPU share among Windows gaming PCs in the latest Steam Hardware Survey, showing that Ryzen continues to gain ground against Intel’s long standing lead. The May 2026 data lists AMD at 44.97 percent on Windows systems, while Intel remains ahead at 55.02 percent. Across all platforms tracked by Steam, AMD’s CPU share is slightly higher at 46.06 percent.

Intel introduced the 8086 processor on June 8, 1978, creating the foundation for the x86 architecture that still powers most desktop and laptop PCs today. The chip is now 48 years old, and its long legacy is unusual because it began as a practical short term solution rather than Intel’s original long term plan. The 8086 was Intel’s first 16 bit processor and became

Metro 2039 has received a new gameplay trailer, giving fans a closer look at its first person stealth action, new weapons, and darker post apocalyptic setting. The game is now planned to launch in February 2027 for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S. The new trailer was shown during the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 and runs for about three minutes.

Persona 6 is officially in development, and the first teaser suggests Atlus may be taking the next mainline entry in a darker and more supernatural direction. The game was announced during the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 with a short but ominous trailer that confirmed a new standalone story for the long running RPG series. The teaser did not reveal many details, and Atlus has

The NYT Connections puzzle for Tuesday, June 9, game 1094, brings a tricky mix of simple words, hidden meanings, and one music related group that may catch many players off guard. Today’s 16 words are Asterisk, Axe, Angel, Surprise, Secret, Trademark, Bone, Dove, Degree, Password, Lamb, Keys, Babe, Skins, Exponent, and Spoiler. The puzzle has four groups, as usual. Each group contains four words

A Reddit user has shared photos of a damaged gaming PC after a lightning strike reportedly entered an apartment through the internet line and reached the system through Ethernet. The surge damaged the router and appears to have burned the motherboard around the Ethernet port, showing that unplugging only the power cable is not always enough during a storm. According to the user, the

GIGABYTE says its in house overclocking team has reached DDR5 13556 MT/s at Computex 2026, claiming a new memory overclocking world record. The result was achieved with CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 memory and GIGABYTE’s Z890 AORUS TACHYON DUO X ICE motherboard, a board built specifically for extreme memory tuning. The run was led by GIGABYTE’s overclocking team under Hicookie, one of the company’s best known

AMD’s next generation Radeon graphics cards may still be more than a year away, according to a new rumor from board partners. Manufacturers reportedly expect the first RDNA 5 gaming GPUs to arrive in 2027 at the earliest, with some sources suggesting retail availability may not happen until late 2027 or even early 2028. The report is based on conversations with several AMD board

Nintendo Switch 2 has completed its first year on the market, and the console has already reached nearly 20 million hardware sales. Nintendo launched the second generation hybrid system on June 5, 2025, and its latest sales data lists 19.86 million units sold as of March 31, 2026. That is a strong start for the follow up to one of Nintendo’s most successful consoles.

GMKtec is preparing a stronger version of its EVO X3 mini PC with AMD’s Ryzen AI Max Plus PRO 495 processor and 192GB of LPDDR5X memory. The company’s current plan is to launch the EVO X3 first with the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, then follow later this year with the upgraded PRO 495 configuration. That makes the EVO X3 one of the first

Foxconn has shown a liquid cooled version of NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition at Computex, giving a closer look at a professional GPU design built for dense server platforms rather than normal desktop PCs. The card uses NVIDIA’s top professional Blackwell GPU configuration with 96GB of GDDR7 memory, but its layout makes clear that this is not intended for a standard workstation

Microsoft’s next consumer Surface Pro 13 and Surface Laptop 8 models have leaked ahead of an expected June 16 announcement, pointing to new Snapdragon X2 processors, stronger AI performance, and familiar chassis designs. The leak covers both the Surface tablet and the next Surface Laptop lineup, with ARM based models aimed at Copilot Plus PC features and long battery life. The Surface Pro 13

A leaked motherboard specification sheet has revealed more details about Intel’s upcoming LGA 1954 desktop platform, this time through a Q970 business focused board. The listing appears to describe a Micro ATX motherboard using Intel’s Q970 chipset, which is expected to be part of the company’s next 900 series platform for future desktop processors. The board is listed with the LGA 1954 socket and

Cooler Master has launched its MWE Gold V4 power supply series with a new GPU Shield feature aimed at systems using modern graphics cards with 12V 2x6 power connectors. The new lineup includes 1000W, 850W and 750W models, with ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 support across the series. The launch follows earlier preorder listings in China, where the 850W model appeared for 659 RMB,

Intel has added product pages for two Core 200H processors that ship with integrated graphics disabled. The Core 7 230H and Core 5 205H are listed under Intel Core processors Series 2, but both are based on Raptor Lake mobile silicon rather than Arrow Lake. The listings confirm that these chips launched in the first quarter of 2026. They had already appeared on MaxSun

PELADN has listed its YO2 mini PC in China, giving another look at how expensive AMD’s Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 systems can be when paired with large memory configurations. The compact workstation is built around AMD’s Strix Halo platform and is offered with 128GB of LPDDR5X 8000 memory and a 2TB SSD. The listed price is 20,499 RMB, which is roughly $3,030. That

MINISFORUM has shown an unusual PCIe expansion card at Computex 2026 that uses an AMD B650 chipset to add more storage and external PCIe connectivity. The card is called PCIE TO 4, and it is designed to provide four M.2 slots, one OCuLink port, and one USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type C port through a single add in board. The idea is different from

An unreleased GeForce RTX 3050 Ti desktop graphics card has appeared online, giving a rare look at an Ampere generation model that NVIDIA never brought to retail. The card appears to be an engineering sample and uses a GA106 GPU, placing it above the regular RTX 3050 desktop in several key areas. The sample was shown with GPU Z screenshots and a 3DMark Time