More expensive version of the ROG Astral

ASUS has partnered up with Bethesda and ID Software to unveil a special edition of its Geforce RTX 5080 ROG Astral graphics card, the Doom Edition. This limited edition version will get the Doom design with gold accents and be bundled with several goodies.

Flaming expensive 

More than 100 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips have reportedly gone belly-up, most of them when nestled in ASRock motherboards.

EZ Latch Plus doesn’t mangle your motherboard

Gigabyte has thrown some serious shade at Asus with a new video flexing its EZ Latch Plus mechanism—showing a GPU being installed and removed a hundred times without any damage to the motherboard’s PCIe slot.

Partners will have full control

AMD has scraped its reference design for the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 series, leaving board partners like ASUS, XFX, and Sapphire to take the reins.

Less expensive version with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip

ASUS has officially announced its less expensive version of the ROG Phone 9, the ROG Phone 9 FE, which will use the Qualcomm Snapdragon Gen 3 SoC, while the rest of the specifications remain the same.

Confirms 16GB of VRAM for both RX 9700 XT and non-XT

ASUS has detailed the upcoming Radeon RX 9700 series graphics cards, including TUF and PRIME series versions, that will launch as soon as AMD gives the green light, confirming the RDNA 4 architecture and 16GB of VRAM for both the Radeon RX 9700 XT and the Radeon RX 9700.

New BIOS Update

ASUS and AMD have announced a solution to the longstanding issue of inter-core latency in the new Strix Point APUs.

Hits DDR5-12112

G.SKILL has announced that it managed to set a new overclocking world record for DDR5 memory frequency, reaching a rather impressive DDR5-12112 frequency.

27-inch 5K monitor with 218ppi, HDR10, DisplayHDR 500, and more

ASUS has announced that its ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV, a 5K (5120 x 2880) monitor with 218 pixels per inch (ppi), 99% of the DCI-P3 color gamut coverage, HDR10 and VESA DisplayHDR 500 support, built-in Auto KVM, and all the bells and whistles when it comes to connectivity, will be available in early-November at $799 MSRP.

Ranging from $699 to $199

Most AMD motherboard partners, including Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte, MSI, and others, have already announced their X870E and X870 motherboards, and now, these are finally available in all major retail/e-tail shops. In case you missed it, these support the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 series, as well as previous Ryzen 8000 and Ryzen 7000 series CPUs, and are aimed at enthusiasts bringing better VRM, WiFi 7, and USB 4 support.