We're continuing our TweakTown giveaways, rewarding our registered members and newsletter subscribers with top-tier hardware every week. For our latest giveaway, we've teamed up with MONTECH to give 12 lucky winners a new CPU air cooler, with both the NX400 and higher-end NX600 available in black and white.

There will be 12 winners in total, and each winner will receive one CPU cooler. The prize pool includes three MONTECH NX400 Black coolers, three NX400 White coolers, three MONTECH NX600 Black coolers, and three NX600 White coolers.

The MONTECH NX400 is designed as a compact single-tower cooler for builders who want strong air-cooling performance without committing to a particularly large heatsink. Its heatsink uses 52 fins aligned with four heat pipes to move heat away from the processor while maintaining a relatively streamlined 120 x 74 x 156mm footprint.

Rebel Wolves has reversed course on console performance for The Blood of Dawnwalker, confirming a 60 FPS Performance Mode will now arrive on PS5, PS5 Pro, and Xbox Series X through the game's Day 1 patch.

The studio shared the update through the game's official X account. Apparently, a 60 FPS performance mode was already in the works, but it was still being tested. Rebel Wolves weren't ready to promise it yet; however, that has now reversed.

That Friday reveal is what sparked the backlash in the first place. Rebel Wolves had confirmed the console versions would ship with only Quality and Balanced modes, targeting 30 FPS and 40 FPS respectively, with no 60 FPS option even on PS5 Pro. Fans pushed back hard in the replies and across social media, and the studio addressed it directly.

Michal Nowakowski wants Witcher fans to let the team cook. The CD Projekt Red joint CEO used a short video posted to The Witcher's official X account to confirm the studio is now targeting a 2028 release window for The Witcher 4, even though the game itself won't appear at Gamescom this week.

Nowakowski said the studio isn't ready to share an exact date, but confirmed 2028 as the current target. He added that the team has "more than 500 incredibly talented developers" working on the project and called it CD Projekt Red's "biggest, boldest, and most ambitious game to date."

Gamescom itself will still carry some Witcher content, however. CD Projekt Red plans to show off The Witcher 3's upcoming expansion, Songs of the Past, on the show floor and during livestreams running from August 25 through 30. Songs of the Past is currently set to launch in 2027, a year ahead of The Witcher 4.

A user on Reddit has seemingly picked up a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti for just $242 at a Walmart clearance section, which is well under half of what the card typically costs at other retailers right now.

The buyer, going by u/enigmussnake, posted the crazy find on r/gpu after spotting an MSI RTX 5060 Ti 8GB sitting in Walmart's clearance cage. With tax, the total came to close to $266, still a steep discount from the nearly $500 the card is currently going for elsewhere.

NVIDIA launched the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB at $379 last year, so even against the original MSRP, this is a solid deal. Against today's prices, driven up by ongoing memory shortages, it's an even better one. Retailers like Newegg currently list various RTX 5060 Ti 8GB models between $499 and $540, so this Walmart find represents a discount of well over 50%.

After the disappointing launch of Black Ops 7, Activision's latest shooter had a lot to redeem. The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta went live on August 21 and started strong, peaking at 115,145 concurrent players on Steam as players jumped in to see what's new.

However, that momentum didn't last long, and once again, Activision and Infinity Ward are getting the reaction they probably didn't want, with the player count dropping by more than half within 24 hours.

As of writing, it is sitting at around 28,730 players, with no signs of recovering. This is the early access phase, meaning the people currently playing aren't casual browsers who stumbled in. They pre-ordered the game or specifically sought out a beta key. You would expect that crowd to be the most engaged and the ones most likely to stick around.

Brazilian modder Paulo Gomes and his team, known for their GPU experiments, have doubled the VRAM on a GALAX RTX 2080 SUPER HOF from 8GB to 16GB. Testing in Resident Evil Requiem shows a real gain in scenarios where the card was running out of memory.

According to YouTuber Paolo Gomes, via Videocardz, the team says they couldn't find an earlier example of this exact mod being done on a 2080 SUPER. The process involved desoldering all eight original 1GB Samsung GDDR6 modules and replacing them with 2GB chips, then adjusting the card's memory strap configuration so the GPU would correctly report the new 16GB capacity.

In Resident Evil Requiem, memory allocation on the 16GB card rose to roughly 11GB in a VRAM-heavy section. Frame rates went from around 25 FPS on the stock 8GB card to somewhere between 32 and 34 FPS after the mod, which the team calculates as close to a 28% improvement.

When LinkedIn launched its "Seems like AI slop" report button at the end of July, it was hard to know whether users would actually engage with it or simply scroll past. We don't have to guess anymore. According to LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan, more than one million people have clicked the button in less than a month.

Users who copy-paste AI-generated posts are also seeing around 40% fewer views compared to before the button launched, with LinkedIn's classifiers and user reports working together to limit how widely that content spreads. As we covered when the feature launched, the button hides flagged posts from the reporting user's feed and privately notifies the poster through their Post Analytics dashboard that their content came across as inauthentic.

LinkedIn is now adding another layer to that notification. If a post receives enough community flags, the author will see a message in their Post Analytics reading, "Some members told us this post seems like AI." Srinivasan framed it as constructive feedback. "We approached this assuming good intent. I know I'm increasingly conscious of how to not sound like AI, and the goal is to provide helpful feedback," he said.

The Radeon Pro WX5100 from 2016 is not what most people would think of as a capable gaming graphics card to play modern titles, but a YouTuber has found that this single-slot professional card paired with a beefy BIOS mod can turn this card into a capable gaming graphics card in 2026. Budget-Builds Official on YouTube published a video showcasing the gaming performance of the WX5100 in several modern titles, including Cyberpunk 2077 and Arc Raiders.

Out of the box, the WX5100 had very mediocre performance, achieving just above 30 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077's benchmark. However, BIOS modding the card with a boosted power limit, higher memory clock speeds, and tighter memory timings changed the card's performance significantly. With the BIOS mod, the performance of the WX5100 doubled, with Cyberpunk 2077's benchmark run achieving nearly 60 FPS.

The YouTuber tested the WX5100 in a multitude of titles with the BIOS mod, featuring GTA: V Enhanced, GTA: V, Cyberpunk 2077, Oblivion: Remastered, Samson, BeamNG, Red Dead Redemption 2, M&B Bannerlord, Fortnite, Counter-Strike 2, Arc Raiders, PUBG, Paralives, and Crysis Remastered.

GIGABYTE's next-generation AORUS ELITE FO32U24G gaming monitor is a new 32-inch OLED offering that will feature LG's latest Tandem WOLED panel. With its stacked-layer structure, it's set to deliver improved brightness and responsiveness, along with better efficiency, when it launches sometime in Q4 2026.

The 32-inch AORUS ELITE FO32U24G will feature a native 4K resolution, with dual-mode support for 4K 240Hz and FHD 480Hz. With the latest Tandem WOLED panel, GIGABYTE notes that the new display delivers an HDR peak brightness of up to 1,500 nits, with 99.5% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage, and VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification. Thanks to the continued advances in OLED technology, this latest GIGABYTE display will be brighter and more vibrant than current or older-gen models.

HDR brightness will also improve with GIGABYTE HyperNits, which increases brightness while preserving detail through optimized tuning. The display will also launch with the company's latest AI OLED Care Pro suite, which includes several notable features.

Ever since Sony announced that it was going to cease production of discs, i.e., physical games, for PlayStation consoles, the response from the community has been almost uniformly negative. And vocal. With Sony confirming that January 2028 will be the last time it makes physical games for the PlayStation 5, it also confirms that Sony's gaming future, including the upcoming PlayStation 6, will be entirely digital.

With negative backlash showing up in every official PlayStation-related announcement or story, even when it has nothing to do with the end of PlayStation disc production, it's also led to a community-led blackout and protest. Beyond effectively killing the physical game market for PlayStation, the move also highlights that when it comes to digital libraries and purchases, you don't actually "own" what you buy.

With the discourse around Sony's discless future showing no signs of slowing down, it doesn't look good when PlayStation starts sending notices to millions of gamers reminding them of the current PlayStation 'Terms.' Terms that confirm that buying a digital game on the PlayStation Network grants you a "limited" license to play the game.

Grand Theft Auto 6's big official gameplay debut on Netflix is happening later this week. For developer Rockstar Games and publisher Take-Two, the run-up to the event has been plagued by multiple leaks. Basically, a leaker or group called Cyberleek has been posting gameplay footage from GTA 6, prompting a flurry of DMCA takedown notices to accounts sharing the material, as well as a formal legal investigation requesting data from companies like Microsoft and Google.

With the leaks showcasing and detailing gameplay across a variety of aspects of the game, the current consensus is that Cyberleek has a working build of Grand Theft Auto 6, with the footage captured on PC. This isn't gameplay footage from the upcoming deep-dive video, but actual gameplay captured by hackers playing the game.

Naturally, with the game's official November release exclusive to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles, the idea of a working PC build of GTA 6 has got a lot of people excited, regardless of the source. With that, a supposed 113GB build of Grand Theft Auto 6 for PC has been appearing online this past weekend on multiple torrent sites. So, is this the version of the game Cyberleek is currently playing? No, and it's reportedly full of malware.

A recent Windows 11 update (version 25H2, KB5121003) has been causing issues for some PC gamers playing multiplayer titles like Arc Raiders, The Finals, and Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls. In addition to PCs becoming unresponsive and games crashing to the desktop without warning, some users are also reporting blue screen "EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" errors causing their systems to restart.

Microsoft is actively investigating the issue, noting that it's most likely related to "peripherals or internal device components which have RGB lighting features." For a desktop PC gaming build, that covers most rigs, and Microsoft adds that devices with RGB often install drivers or code with file names similar to the low-level "inpoutx64" driver, which accesses hardware ports.

Until a proper fix is available, a workaround that reportedly resolves the issue is disabling the 'inpoutx64' driver in the Windows registry. Microsoft's support page on the issue provides steps for how to do this but notes that it can cause unintended behavior with RGB features on devices, as well as with third-party software used to control and configure lighting.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey has climbed to the top of its own franchise on Steam. The 2018 title now sits at 89% positive reviews, edging past Assassin's Creed 2's longstanding 86%, and this boost lines up almost exactly with the release of Christopher Nolan's blockbuster "The Odyssey."

It's a strange twist for a game that had a rocky launch reputation. We've been tracking this trend since July, when Steam concurrent players first jumped from around 4,000 to a peak of 8,522 shortly after the film hit theaters. That number has only grown since. According to a follow-up analysis from Alinea Analytics, combined daily active users across Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation went from roughly 122,000 on the day the movie released to 233,000 just ten days later, a 90% increase.

It seems like a big chunk of that audience is new. Reports suggest around 250,000 new players picked up the game specifically because of the movie, drawn in by wanting a more hands-on look at ancient Greece after watching Nolan's take on Homer's epic. Odyssey's open world, built around exploring the Aegean and fighting through the Peloponnesian War, apparently gave people exactly that.

The #PSBlackout is officially underway. Starting today, PlayStation fans who announced the protest last month are asking users to power down their consoles entirely through August 30, avoiding logins, purchases, and play sessions across all of Sony's platforms.

The action is a response to Sony's decision to end physical PlayStation disc production starting January 2028. Organizers say the goal is simple: hit Sony's active user numbers hard enough that the company notices, while giving developers and publishers minimal disruption during the process. It follows a string of other pushback moments, including a "Don't Kill the Disc" petition that gathered over 345,000 verified signatures and a nearly $500 million lawsuit filed in the Netherlands.

Not everyone thinks the timing works in the protest's favor, though. Critics have pointed out that the blackout overlaps with Gamescom week, when a huge chunk of the PlayStation community is likely occupied elsewhere anyway. Moreover, this protest isn't tied to a major release like GTA 6 or Marvel's Wolverine, which probably would have applied more pressure. Some players have already said online that they plan to do the opposite and play more during the week just to counter the effort.

Nintendo has finally confirmed the last missing piece of its Switch 2 price hike. Starting September 1, the console will cost £419.99 in the UK, up from its current £395.99 price, a £24 increase confirmed by the official Nintendo Store UK account on X.

The UK figure had been the one gap left over from Nintendo's original announcement in May, when the company confirmed it would raise Switch 2 prices across the US, Canada, and Europe but didn't give a UK number at the time. That gap is now filled in. In the US, the console rises from $449.99 to $499.99, and in Canada, it rises from $629.99 to $679.99. Europe increases from €469.99 to €499.99, and Ireland follows the same euro pricing. Japan already went through its own increase back in May.

Of the regions affected, the UK is getting the smallest bump in both cash and percentage terms, roughly 6%, compared to the US increase, which works out closer to 11%. Nintendo has pointed to "changes in market conditions" as the reason behind the revision, language that suggests this is meant to be a lasting adjustment rather than a short-term bump. It lines up with our previous coverage, as Nintendo is reportedly paying significantly more for the RAM that goes into every Switch 2 unit.

Trying to buy DDR5 memory right now apparently means competing with an army of bots, not actual people. According to bot-mitigation firm DataDome, 91% of the traffic hitting one retailer's DDR5 product pages is now coming from automated scraping tools rather than real shoppers, which is roughly ten bot requests for every one legitimate visit.

The figure comes from a post by Jérôme Segura, DataDome's VP of threat research, and builds on a bigger report the company published earlier this year. In a one-hour sample, DataDome found 91 unique DDR5 listings being scraped an average of 551 times each, which works out to a stock check on a given kit roughly every 6.5 seconds. One operation alone reportedly generated over 50,000 requests per hour before DataDome blocked it, and more than 10 million scraping attempts have been blocked in total.

It's worth noting the 91% figure comes from a single unnamed retailer, and DataDome hasn't shared its sample window or full methodology. Page requests also aren't purchases, so the number is really how hard bots are watching listings rather than how much stock they're actually grabbing. Still, DataDome says the bots aren't limiting themselves to consumer kits either, with scraping activity also hitting industrial memory suppliers and component makers like Amphenol and TE Connectivity.

Someone won a free NVIDIA GPU at a raffle, then turned it into a $57,450 payday. An NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, signed twice by Jensen Huang, sold at RR Auction this week as part of the "Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution" sale. The card carried an estimate of just $6,000, so the final price landed almost ten times higher.

According to the listing, the original owner picked up the card as a raffle prize at NVIDIA's GTC 2026 Physical AI Developer Meetup back in March. Per the consignor's own account, it was the only unit of its kind given away that night in front of roughly 500 attendees. Huang later signed the card twice, once on the metal housing and once inside the box, both in gold ink.

The RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition is NVIDIA's flagship workstation card, built around the Blackwell architecture with 96GB of GDDR7 memory. It normally sells for somewhere between $12,000 and $16,000 depending on the retailer, so even the unsigned card is already a serious purchase before autographs get involved. Two signatures apparently added over $40,000 on top of that.

GTA 6's ongoing leaks have reportedly hit morale hard inside Rockstar Games, according to a new report from gaming insider Jason Schreier. Schreier says he spoke with several Rockstar employees after the leaks and found the mood inside the studio has dropped sharply, with management staying largely quiet on the matter.

The leaks come at a rough time for the team. Rockstar is apparently deep into the final stretch of GTA 6's development, and the leaks seem to have added extra strain. According to Schreier, staff are mostly feeling exhausted rather than angry at this point.

Part of the frustration reportedly comes from the fact that Rockstar tightened security significantly after the 2022 leaks, requiring staff to work on-site five days a week with limited remote access to internal tools. Despite those changes, the game still leaked again, which has apparently left some employees questioning whether the added restrictions were worth it.

The Blood of Dawnwalker won't hit 60 FPS on any console at launch, and even the PlayStation 5 Pro tops out at 40 FPS. Bandai Namco and developer Rebel Wolves shared new console footage confirming the display modes for the upcoming dark fantasy RPG, and it looks like 60 FPS is reserved for PC.

On PlayStation 5 Pro, players get two options: a Quality mode running dynamic 4K targeting 30 FPS, and a Balanced mode also at dynamic 4K but targeting 40 FPS. The base PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X get the same two modes, though the dynamic resolution scaling looks more aggressive on base PS5 in Quality mode based on the footage. Xbox Series S wasn't shown running the game at all, which raises some questions about how it will perform on the least powerful console in the lineup.

The framerate ceiling isn't surprising given the circumstances. The Blood of Dawnwalker runs on Unreal Engine 5, and Rebel Wolves is a smaller studio compared to teams with more resources to fully optimize for consoles. The game also carries steep PC system requirements, which points to a demanding engine overall.

AMD picked up more desktop CPU market share in Q2 2026, according to new data from Mercury Research. The firm's numbers put AMD at 34.9% of desktop x86 CPU unit share, up 1.8 percentage points from the previous quarter, even as the overall desktop market shrank.

The gain came despite a rough quarter for desktop CPUs industry-wide. Total desktop shipments fell more than 20% year over year, with Mercury Research pointing to higher PC prices, tight GPU supply, and normal seasonal weakness as the main causes. AMD's desktop shipments dropped too, but by less than Intel's, which is how the company still came out ahead on share.

The bigger picture looks strong for AMD across the board. Combined desktop and mobile client share crossed 30% for the first time in the company's history, landing at 30.3% against Intel's 69.7%. Total x86 share, which folds in IoT and embedded chips, hit 34.1%, up from 32.6% the prior quarter. AMD's server CPU share also climbed to 34.5%, with Mercury Research noting that a Xeon-vs-EPYC comparison would put AMD closer to 46%.

A Redditor says Amazon shipped him an empty Ryzen 5 9600X box, twice in a row! The user, posting as u/No-Yak9776 in r/PcBuild, works at a PC shop that orders parts through Amazon Business, and says the process has worked fine for them until now.

The first order arrived with the CPU packaging intact but no processor inside. He filed for a refund, got it, and reordered the same chip. The second box, surprisingly, also showed up empty. He filmed both unboxings, which he says made the refund process go smoothly each time.

The listing was fulfilled by a third-party seller called "The Tech Group," not sold directly by Amazon. The seller reportedly carries decent reviews, though the Redditor suspects many of them may not be genuine. He says he won't order CPUs through third-party Amazon listings again and now sticks to filming every unboxing as backup evidence.