GIGABYTE AORUS is officially expanding its OLED gaming monitor offerings as the company has unveiled four new additions to its expansive lineup at CES 2026.

GIGABYTE gave us a showcase of each of the monitors and explained how the company is focusing on exploring the space further with new OLED models. The showroom floor featured four new models: the 34" UWQHD MO34WQC36, the 32" MO32U24, and the 27" MO27Q28GR, and the 27-inch MO27Q2A ICE. Each of these monitors comes with AORUS' HyperNits feature and AI Picture Mode. HyperNits increases the brightness of the panel by up to 30% within the High mode, and 20% in the Medium Mode.

Starting with the MO34WQC36, this is a 34-inch 3440 x 1440p (WQHD) 360Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor. It features a 0.3ms (GtG) response time, 1x DisplayPort 2.1 (UHBR13.5) and features Samsung's V-Stripe sub-pixel layout, which is set to improve text clarity significantly, specifically around the edges of text.

MSI has unveiled two new 5K gaming monitors at CES 2026, one is only capable of 75Hz at such a heavy resolution, but the other can push up to a 165Hz refresh rate.

CES 2026 is officially underway and MSI has showcased us two new gaming monitors it will be offering in 2026, the first the MAG 271KPD7, a 27-inch Rapid IPS dual mode gaming monitor that's capable of switching between 5K at 75Hz and 1440p at 300Hz. The 271KPD7 has a 0.5ms GtG response time, and 218 pixels per inch, making it an extremely impressive display purely based on image clarity.

The 271KPD7 also comes with an array of connectivity options, such as 2x HDMI 2.1 inputs, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB-C Type-C with 15W PD, 2x USB 5Gbps Type-A ports, 1x USB-B 5Gbps, and 1x headphone jack. The more premium model of the two is the MPG 271KRAW16, which is the display that MSI has claimed is the world's first 5K Mini-LED gaming monitor.

MSI has kicked off CES 2026 with a new generation of QD-OLED technology, marking the 5th iteration of the pixel technology.

MSI debuted the new QD-OLED panel generation with the MPG 341CQR X36, a 34-inch ultra wide that rocks a 3440 x 1440p resolution maximum refresh rate of 360Hz. The 341CQR X36 is debuting MSI's new RGB Stripe sub-pixel layout, which is a new design of how the sub pixels are arranged within an individual pixel. The introduction of Tandem OLED utilizing RGB Stripe technology is to improve color fringing and significantly enhance the clarity of text.

In addition to better color reproduction, the 341CQR X36, alongside the MEG X, will be receiving DarkArmor film, a new technology that is designed to absorb light and improve the deepness of blacks. MSI explains the film reduces purple or reddish tints that are commonly found across QD-OLED panels, and that it estimates the film can improve pure black levels by up to 40%. By reducing the black levels and significantly improving contrast MSI estimates DarkArmor film monitors will deliver superior image performance.

MSI has unveiled the MEG X gaming monitor at CES 2026, and the QD-OLED ultrawide display isn't just easy on the eyes, it is also equipped with an array of AI-powered features designed to assist a user while gaming.

The MEG X was unveiled alongside the MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36, with both of these new ultrawide gaming monitors rocking MSI's 5th generation QD-OLED panel that has taken advantage of Tandem OLED technology, resulting in improved color reproduction and accuracy. The MEG X is MSI's flagship gaming monitor, and comes with a suite of AI functions such as AI Tracker, AI Vision+, and AI Goggle.

Each of these features has a different impact on gameplay, with AI Tracker highlighting in-game characters, or AI Scope that automatically zooms in on targets for precision with optional Night Vision. There is also AI Goggle, a feature dedicated to improving the recovery time from flashbangs. Additionally, the MEG X comes with a SpectrumBar on the chin of the display. This light bar can be synced with an in-game status, such as health or stamina.

At CES 2026, AMD announced the new Ryzen 7 9850X3D desktop processor that takes the world's fastest CPU for PC gaming and makes it even faster by delivering Boost Clock speeds of 5.6 GHz, up from 5.2 GHz. Alongside this announcement, MSI has announced its latest flagship AM5 motherboard, the MEG X870E UNIFY-X MAX.

Perfect for the Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor and overclocking enthusiasts, this high-performance motherboard features a specialized 2-DIMM layout, making it the world's first motherboard to break the DDR5 10,000 MT/s barrier. According to MSI, its internal testers have already pushed DDR5 speeds on the MEG X870E UNIFY-X MAX to 10,200 MT/s - which is impressive.

The MEG X870E UNIFY-X MAX also doubles the BIOS ROM from 32MB to 64MB. It even features a dedicated tuning controller (and yes, it looks like a remote) that lets you adjust memory and CPU frequencies directly within the OS, bypassing the need to shut down, reboot, and enter the BIOS.

Dell has announced its new XPS 16 and XPS 14 laptops at CES 2026, with a tease of its new XPS 13 thrown into the mix, all powered by Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" CPUs.

The new XPS 16, XPS 14, and XPS 13 laptops are a return to the original XPS branding, after Dell's major misstep in 2025 with its now gone Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max naming... very Apple-like, but now the XPS brand returns in original form.

The new Dell XPS 16 and XPS 14 laptops are designed as a productivity powerhouse, with a premium design through CNC-machined aluminum used for the chassis, Gorilla Glass 3 production, and arriving as an ultra-thin, lightweight laptop that starts at only 14.6mm thin and 3 lbs.

At CES 2026, GIGABYTE unveiled a new custom GeForce RTX 5090 design from its team, dubbed the Infinity. The stylish, impressively compact design (a triple-slot RTX 5090 is rare) features a dual-flow-through cooling design similar to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition.

The AORUS GeForce RTX 5090 Infinity is cooled by its unique WINDFORCE HYPERBURST Cooling System, which includes two Hawk Fans that pull air through the GPU, a direct-touch vapor chamber, superconducting heat pipes, composite metal grease, and a hidden third fan. Yes, the AORUS GeForce RTX 5090 Infinity includes a smaller fan at the center of the GPU, beneath the mesh panel, and it's barely visible.

At 33mm wide, this fan is known as the 'Overdrive' fan, designed to boost cooling and airflow for those looking to overclock the GPU or during those hardware-intensive 4K gaming sessions. As it features a dual-flow-through cooling design, it's presumed that the AORUS GeForce RTX 5090 Infinity uses a PCB layout similar to NVIDIA's Founders Edition.

Alienware stomped into CES 2026 with a bunch of new gaming laptops with new flagship Area-51 gaming laptops in 18-inch and 16-inch variants, a new 16X Aurora, and more.

Starting with Alienware's new Area-51 18 and 16 gaming laptops, they both feature upgraded designs with updated capabilities, both using the "Alienware 30" design language to celebrate the company's 30th anniversary. This new design includes Fluid Contours, Pillowed Palm Rests, and a Zero Hinge design.

Dell has tweaked the thermal design of the new Alienware Area-51 18+16 gaming laptops, with the latest cryo-chamber technology that's capable of up to 35% improved airflow, 15% improvement in acoustics, additional copper-based thermal modules in the form of heatpipes and a vapor chamber, as well as up to 20% higher volume on the bigger Area-51 18 gaming laptop.

Dell has announced its very latest Area-51 desktop gaming PC will arrive with the world's fastest gaming CPU: AMD's new Ryzen 7 9850X3D which just launched at CES 2026.

Dell launched the Alienware Area-51 desktop gaming PC at CES 2025 but only had Intel Core Ultra 200 series "Arrow Lake" processors, but in November 2025 it unlocked AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" processors. At CES 2026 this week, the company announced the Alienware Area-51 would be available with AMD's new Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor.

You can configure a new Alienware Area-51 desktop gaming PC with AMD's new Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor, up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 with 24GB of GDDR7 memory... however, only 64GB of DDR5 (there are only two DIMM slots), and up to 12TB of SSD storage.

RTX Video Super Resolution is like DLSS for watching videos on YouTube or other streaming platforms: it takes a lower-resolution video, like 720p, and leverages AI to upscale it to 4K, delivering a sharper, more detailed image. RTX Video like DLSS leverages the Tensor Cores on GeForce RTX graphics cards for real-time upscaling.

At CES 2026, as part of a wide range of updates for RTX AI on GeForce RTX GPUs, NVIDIA announced that RTX Video will be coming to the popular, open-source AI platform ComfyUI in February. This means users with GeForce RTX GPUs will be able to take 720p AI-generated videos and upscale them "to 4K in seconds."

With the sheer computational power required to generate 4K AI video and images, most AI enthusiasts with a standard PC or laptop built for RTX AI create this content at lower resolutions, such as 720p.

NVIDIA ACE, which is a toolset that leverages a range of AI-powered technologies to create digital humans, is something we've covered a few times here at TweakTown. After going hands-on with tech demos and short gaming experiences in the past, at CES 2026, NVIDIA announced that it has partnered with Creative Assembly to bring NVIDIA ACE to the Total War series.

Starting with Total War: Pharaoh, NVIDIA ACE is implemented in-game to add an AI advisor that players can engage with via natural language, running locally on a GeForce RTX graphics card. For those who have played a Total War game or two, you'll no doubt be aware that the game's blend of Civilization-style empire management and epic real-time battles makes it one of the more complex strategy games on the market.

As detailed by Creative Assembly, the AI advisor, represented in-game by an era-correct NPC, can be called on to answer questions related to the game as well as offer advice on strategy, explain why one of your settlements just revolted, and countless other situations. This implementation of an in-game AI assistant has been trained on all the ins and outs of Total War: Pharaoh.

NVIDIA has unveiled G-Sync Pulsar at CES 2026, and besides being able to turn 360Hz refresh rate monitors into 1000Hz refresh rate displays, Pulsar also comes with G-Sync Ambient Adaptive Technology.

The Ambient Adaptive Technology is very similar to the technology within most smartphones that automatically changes the brightness on a screen depending on the ambient lighting hitting the display. An example of this would be the screen brightness reducing when entering a dark room and then increasing when using the device in direct sunlight.

NVIDIA's Ambient Adaptive Technology brings those same principles to gaming monitors, with the technology being able to adjust the brightness and temperature of the colors the monitor is displaying based on the ambient lighting of a room. Every G-Sync Pulsar monitor will come with Ambient Adaptive Technology, which adds a sensor to the display that detects the level of brightness in the room and will adjust the brightness and color temperature of the display accordingly.

NVIDIA has unveiled G-Sync Pulsar, a new display technology coming to select 27-inch 1440p 360Hz panels, which NVIDIA claims achieves motion clarity performance equivalent to 1000Hz refresh rate displays.

NVIDIA explained during a press briefing that G-Sync Pulsar is one of the company's latest and most impressive technologies it's releasing at CES 2026. Pulsar is launching with select monitor brands such as Acer, AOC, ASUS, and MSI. The feature will be exclusive to 27-inch IPS WQHD 2560 x 1440p 360Hz refresh rate models, and availability is set right after CES 2026.

So, how does Pulsar actually work and how can it take a 360Hz monitor and make it feel like a 1000Hz monitor? NVIDIA explains Pulsar introduces a rolling backlight that when a single frame is produced initiates a scan when a frame is generated. Traditionally, during a scan out in VRR backlight strobing blur can be produced as the image within frames does not perfectly line up with the previous and next few frames, which is perceived as a blur effect.

CES 2026 is here and kicking off the week-long tech-announcement madness is NVIDIA and its unveiling of a selection of new technologies, and one standout on the list is DLSS 4.5, specifically its introduction of 6x multiframe generation.

NVIDIA confirmed via its online press conference that more features are coming with the release of DLSS 4.5, and some will be exclusive to NVIDIA hardware running Blackwell architecture, or in other words, exclusive to the RTX 5000-series GPUs. NVIDIA explains DLSS 4.5 being able to offer 6x multiframe generation (MFG) performance can be attributed to the second generation transformer model, which has increased the quality of the input frames, and therefore the generated frames.

Additionally, this improvement in MFG capabilities has been possible by several improvements to the way frame pacing works within the model, and the general image quality within the model itself. Together these improvements make 6x MFG, and NVIDIA stated that with it enabled it provides the smoothest path tracing-enabled gaming experience.

NVIDIA's RTX Remix platform has been a game-changer for the PC modding community, giving developers and enthusiasts access to tools that let them upgrade classic PC games with modern path-traced visuals. Plus, access to RTX Technologies like DLSS Super Resolution, Frame Generation, Reflex, and neural rendering.

One of the highest-profile RTX Remix projects currently in development is Half-Life 2 RTX, which looks and feels like a modern path-traced remake of Valve's iconic shooter, with impressive path-traced lighting. With over 125 RTX Remix mods and a vibrant community creating tools and plug-ins, RTX Remix is getting upgraded in 2026 with the arrival of RTX Remix Logic.

With 2025 bringing path-traced volumetric (like smoke) and particle effects, RTX Remix Logic builds on this by giving modders the ability to "remix" a game's visuals based on game logic. For example, in Half-Life 2 RTX, opening the door to Ravenholm could then randomly pick a time of day and type of weather, totally transforming the game. Yes, Half-Life 2: Winter.

NVIDIA has just announced DLSS 4.5, and within this update comes a bunch more tools to improve PC gaming performance, depending on your available hardware.

NVIDIA has announced at CES 2026 the deployment of DLSS 4.5, and how it has managed to increase multi-frame generation (MFG) up to 6x, enabling the possibility of reaching 4K at 240Hz with Path Tracing enabled. To achieve 6x MFG NVIDIA made several improvements to how the model interprets input frames, resulting in the quality of the generated frames improving.

Additionally, NVIDIA explained via a press briefing the introduction of Dynamic Multi Frame generation, which NVIDIA described as working similarly to an automatic transmission. When enabled the technology will detect when a graphically intensive scene is occurring and automatically increase frame generation to compensate for the reduction in FPS. NVIDIA said that by enabling this players will be able to experience a "continuous refresh rate." With Dynamic MFG enabled fewer generated frames will occur as the workload on the system reduces.

NVIDIA has outlined some of the advancements it has made in bringing local AI to as many users as possible, and according to the company one of the main issues with connecting PC users with local AI is the size of the AI models themselves.

NVIDIA explained during a press briefing for CES 2026 that significant improvements have been made in reducing the size of AI models, and maintaining an appropriate level of intelligence. According to NVIDIA, small AI models that were shrunk down from its larger Cloud-based counterparts were about two years behind in intelligence levels, but just in the last six months significant improvements have been made, doubling the intelligence of these small language models.

NVIDIA told the press these smaller models are getting close to matching their Cloud counterparts, and that generally the intelligence gap is closing between the two. NVIDIA added that it believes 2026 will be the "breakout year" for AI PCs, as other metric indicators such as the first months downloads for most of its PC models have jumped 10x in a year, with the top four tools also doubling in popularity during the same period.

At CES 2026, NVIDIA not only announced DLSS 4.5 for PC gaming but also made it available now in over 250 games and apps. This is all possible via the NVIDIA App, which offers a DLSS Override tool that lets users choose which model to use for Super Resolution upscaling.

NVIDIA's second-generation Transformer model for DLSS 4.5 features five times the computational power of the baseline DLSS 4 and takes full advantage of the more advanced Tensor Cores in GeForce RTX 40 and 50 Series GPUs. However, like with DLSS 4, users will be able to select the new Transformer Model, the older model, or DLSS 3.5's CNN model for upscaling.

And if you want to check out DLSS 4.5's improved image fidelity alongside reduced ghosting and shimmering, all you need to do is go to the NVIDIA App's Settings, opt in to access Beta or Experimental features, and DLSS 4.5 will be primed and ready to go.

Although we didn't get any new GeForce RTX GPU announcements from NVIDIA at CES 2026, not that we were expecting any based on the current memory crisis, but we did get the announcement and launch of DLSS 4.5.

Building on DLSS 4, which launched alongside the RTX Blackwell-powered GeForce RTX 50 Series in 2025, DLSS 4.5's second-generation Transformer model for Super Resolution features five times the computational power of the original DLSS 4's Transformer model. NVIDIA calls it its most sophisticated AI upscaling model so far, trained on a significantly expanded data set.

Now, as we and others have already covered, DLSS 4's Super Resolution model, which improves performance by upscaling from lower resolutions to 1080p, 1440p, or 4K, is (or was) the gold standard, offering impressive image clarity. So then, how good can DLSS 4.5 be?

NVIDIA talked about something really cool during CES 2026, with new gameplay being unlocked thanks to on-device AI.

The company talked about how on-device AI is helping unlock totally new gameplay, using Inzoi and PUBG as recent examples of using it for AI citizens in Inzoi, and AI teammates in PUBG. NVIDIA said it has worked with Total War developer Creative Assembly on reimagining Total War: PHARAOH Advisor with its NVIDIA ACE technology.

The Total War Advisor can help you get used to the gameplay mechanics, asking it questions along the way with a prompt, and the advisor will help you.