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.

27-inch 1440p and 32-inch 4K/UHD

Gigabyte has launched two new QD-OLED gaming monitors the 27-inch 1440p MO27Q2 and the 32-inch 4K/UHD MO32U.

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.

Larger footprint and hidden power connector

Gigabyte has silently launched the new RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Windforce MAX, a much larger version of the original RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Windforce OC launched earlier this year.

Hitting 14.5GB/s and up to 4TB capacities

Gigabyte has unveiled its newest AORUS Gen5 14000 SSD, officially reaching 14GB/s sequential speeds and coming in up to 4TB capacities.

It was broken before we got there

Intel has found itself grappling with stability concerns over its 13th and 14th Generation Raptor Lake processors and is claiming that the kerfuffle stems from motherboard makers getting a bit too creative with the CPUs' settings - tweaking voltage curves, going wild with automatic overclocking, and tossing power limits out the window.

Peaking at up to 4,000/3,900 MB/s

Gigabyte has introduced its new Gen 4 4000E SSD series, which is a more value-oriented drive.

Could be coming to Europe as well

Gigabyte has unveiled a new version of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition), which was originally available in China only, but now could come to Europe as well.

Dual-slot and with three fans

ASUS has rather silently launched yet another custom Geforce RTX 4060 graphics card, this time in the low-profile form factor, making it interesting for those SFF builds.