China black market Nvidia prices rocket in wake of smuggling crackdown and customs freeze — five-year-old A100 servers triple in price, now fetching up to $82,000

Chinese companies are paying as much as $82,000 for servers built around Nvidia’s five-year-old A100 accelerator

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Get this Asus Prime RTX 5070 Ti for just $900 — our pick for the best all-around enthusiast graphics card in 2026 hits its lowest price this year
 Get this Asus Prime RTX 5070 Ti for just $900 — our pick for the best all-around enthusiast graphics card in 2026 hits its lowest price this year

Asus’ Prime RTX 5070 Ti graphics card is on sale for just $900 at Best Buy and Newegg, putting a high-end gaming upgrade in reach.

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AMD brings official FSR 4.1 support to RX 7000 series GPUs — INT8 model now available in 300+ games, RDNA 3 APUs also getting FSR 4.1 soon

If you own an RX 7000 series GPU, you can update your graphics driver today and enjoy native FSR 4.1 in over 300 games thanks to INT8 fallback.

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Ingenious modder converts countertop ice machine into an RTX 3060 GPU cooler with a beer fridge thermostat — mod reduces temps by up to 62% in games, Cyberpunk 2077 runs at 22°C

Turns out, an ice machine can cool a GPU perfectly fine as long as you’re willing to modify it to the extreme and are patient enough to deal with the leaks.
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Open-source Vulkan driver NVK gains experimental DLSS support — bringing Nvidia’s upscaling tech to Linux via imported CUDA binaries

NVK, the community-built open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs in Mesa, has gained experimental DLSS support.

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Unlucky PC builder sent RTX 5070 from Amazon, gets DVD rewriter and a busted logic board from an early 2000’s Kenwood AV receiver instead — $700 GPU turns out to be e-waste thanks to return scam

Another person has fallen victim to Amazon’s generous return policy, as they received a disc drive, a mousepad, and an AV receiver instead of the $700 RTX 5070 they ordered.
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Scammers in China sell $222 RTX 4090 with fake GPU die made out of plastic instead of real silicon — marked with 2030 production dates, the card didn’t even have working VRAM

Nvidia dupes keep getting more sophisticated as time goes on, with the latest example using a plastic die instead of real silicon on an RTX 4090.
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Nvidia releases RTX Remix 1.5 with new RTX IO compression reducing mod file sizes by up to 37% — update also adds Smooth Normals and ‘RTX Remix Skills’ Agents

Nvidia has updated RTX Remix with a bunch of new features that will help improve the fidelity and reduce the file size of modded games, along with the complexity of developing said mods.
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Intel’s long-lost data center prototype ‘Arctic Sound’ Xe-HP multi-tile GPU surfaces in new engineering sample — Company’s cancelled AI processor features 32GB of HBM2E

Intel’s cancelled “Arctic Sound” AI GPU based on the original Xe-HP architecture has been pictured sporting two tiles and 32GB of HBM2E.
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Nvidia raises RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU pricing to $13,250 — 55% increase over MSRP in a year’s time

Nvidia now sells the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell graphics cards for $13,250, while partner offerings start at $11,359.99.
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