There's apparently a solution for NVIDIA RTX 5000 graphics cards failing to work with some EVGA motherboards, which, rather unbelievably, involves simply taping over a couple of pins on the GPU connector.

The reported problem, which means the PC with the RTX 5000 GPU fails to boot at all, has been encountered by a fair number of folks as evidenced in various posts on Reddit. One of those posts, penned by MurkyIncident and highlighted by Tom's Hardware, provides the workaround solution using the tape and you can read it above.

What's reportedly happening is that Blackwell GPUs are failing to work with some motherboards featuring the Intel Z690 chipset, and the reason is there are extra SMBUS pins live on these EVGA mobos.

Nintendo has officially confirmed that the Switch 2 is a storming success, shifting a huge 3.5 million units globally in the handheld's initial four days on sale.

That's a major achievement and means it's the fastest-selling device Nintendo has ever launched. To put it in perspective, the original Nintendo Switch managed to shift 2.7 million units not in four days, but in four weeks.

As pointed out in a reply to the thread on X (flagged by German tech site Computerbase, via VideoCardz) where Nintendo announced the milestone, if we compare that to Sony consoles, the PS4 racked up sales of 4.2 million in six weeks - and the PS5 hit 4.4 million in a slightly lengthier seven weeks.

The new AYANEO FLIP 1S DS is the latest iteration of the company's dual-screen Windows PC gaming handheld inspired by the iconic Nintendo DS. It is a notable upgrade over the previous AYANEO FLIP DS as the main top screen is now a large 7-inch 1080p OLED display with an impressive 144 Hz refresh rate and a maximum brightness of 800 nits.

The dual-screen clamshell handheld's bottom screen has also been upgraded to a 4.5-inch 1620x1080 IPS panel with a brightness of 550 nits and a 3:2 ratio that AYANEO calls the "golden ratio" for playing retro games and emulating classic hardware. As a Windows handheld, these two displays act like two screens, so you can game on one screen while opening a browser or running hardware monitoring tools on the other.

AYANEO even says you can play games while running AI tasks on the second screen, thanks to the new flagship AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor that powers the AYANEO FLIP 1S DS.

From developer SHIFT UP, the sci-fi action game Stellar Blade made waves when it launched on PlayStation 5 last year. The game is set to make its PC debut this week, with day-one support for DLSS 4, including Multi Frame Generation for the GeForce RTX 50 Series. With that, NVIDIA has posted some early benchmark results for the game, showcasing its performance, hitting an impressive 541.6 FPS in 4K on the flagship GeForce RTX 5090.

This figure comes from the game running with Mas Settings with DLSS 4's 'Performance' preset using the fantastic new transformer model for Super Resolution, alongside the maximum Multi Frame Generation setting of 4X. Yes, this means the 541.6 FPS is the AI-powered figure, but with DLSS turned off, the GeForce RTX 5090 still hits an impressive 168.7 FPS in 4K.

In 4K, with DLSS 4, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080 also hit 330+ FPS, so Stellar Blade will arrive as a well-optimized title. Dropping the resolution down to 1440p, even the GeForce RTX 5060 8GB GPU can hit 83.3 FPS with DLSS turned off or 200+ FPS with DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was Microsoft's "one last thing" announcement during its big Xbox Games Showcase this past weekend. The company also confirmed that it's coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4. However, it didn't provide a release date or window, which has many people speculating that the next mainline Call of Duty won't arrive until 2026.

And with that, you probably noticed that the Nintendo Switch 2 isn't included in the list of platforms the game is headed to, which is a little strange when you factor in that the game is also coming to last-gen systems like the PS4 and Xbox One. Does this mean Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 won't be headed to the Switch 2? Not precisely, and there are a few reasons why.

A source working on Black Ops 7 recently provided a statement to Eurogamer stating that the team is "committed to getting the franchise on Switch," is currently "working on it," and that it will "share details when ready."

Applied Digital Corporation is a designer, builder, and operator of next-gen digital infrastructure for HPC applications, announcing new 15-year lease agreements with AI Hyperscaler, CoreWeave.

This new agreement will see Applied Digital delivering 250 megawatts (MW) of critical IT load to hose CoreWeave's extensive AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure at its Ellendale, North Dakota data center campus. Across the expansive approximately 15-year term, Applied Digital anticipates generating around $7 billion in total revenue from the leases.

CoreWeave also retains the option to access an additional 150 MW of critical IT load at Ellendale, which has positioned the data center campus as a scalable hub for expanding AI and HPC workloads.

The DIY mechanical keyboard market is booming, offering gamers and PC enthusiasts the option to fully customize their boards - from switches to keycaps, mounting, dampening layers, and more. Razer, which has released a wide range of mechanical keyboards and gaming-focused peripherals for years, is entering the DIY space with the new BlackWidow V4 75% Barebones kit.

Explicitly designed for modders and those wanting a fully customizable keyboard, Razer notes that it offers "enthusiast-level acoustics, cutting-edge performance, and immersive lighting" in the popular 75% layout and form factor. In Barebones form, the keyboard allows owners to install their own mechanical switches (3-pin or 5-pin) and keycaps.

The wired board is packed with Razer's latest 8000 Hz HyperPolling technology for low-latency and instantaneous response times, making it perfect for those who regularly dive into competitive games.

Matrox is a name you might not have ever heard of, but they were a major player in the graphics card industry decades ago, and have remained in the business since... now the company have just announced a new dual-GPU graphics card with 8 x mini-DisplayPort 2.0 connectors.

Enter the Matrox LUMA Pro A380 Octal graphics card, which is a dual-GPU card based on the Intel Arc Alchemist GPU architecture. This is an embedded version of Alchemist with dual A380 GPUs, 12GB of GDDR6 memory, 8 x mini-DisplayPort 2.0 connectors which are capable of driving 4 x 8K displays or up to 8 x 5K displays... all in a single-slot design and using a single fan.

Matrox doesn't just have its new LUMA Pro A380 Octal graphics card on the market now, but its A380 Quad SKU is pretty much the same card but with a single-GPU design, lower power consumption, and 4 x full-sized DisplayPort connectors. Matrox's new LUMA Pro A380 Octal graphics card has 12GB of GDDR6 memory, while the A380 Quad features just 6GB of GDDR6.

White House AI czar David Sacks has said that China isn't years behind the US when it comes to AI, but more like 3-6 months behind, and that the AI race is "very close".

Sacks was speaking at the AWS Summit in Washington when the White House AI and crypto czar said: "China is not years and years behind us in AI. Maybe they're three to six months. It's a very close race". He also downplayed the issues of American AI chips being smuggled by bad actors, and raised concerns that regulating US AI too tightly could hurt growth, and cede the critical AI market to China.

He said: "We talk about these chips like they could be smuggled in the back of a briefcase. That's not what they look like. These are server racks that are eight feet tall and weigh two tons. They don't walk out doors. It's very easy to basically verify that they're where they're supposed to be".

AMD will be launching its new Instinct MI350 series AI accelerators this week during the ISC25 keynote, where AMD CTO Mark Papermaster will unveil the company's next-gen Instinct MI350 series AI chips offering up to 35x improvements in AI inferencing capabilities, and more.

We know that the AMD Instinct MI350X AI accelerator will boast up to 288GB of HBM3E memory, and inside, be powered by AMD's next-gen "CDNA 4" architecture. The new Instinct MI350 series AI accelerators will better compete with NVIDIA's new Blackwell AI GPUs, bridging the gap of AI performance between AMD and NVIDIA later this year.

AMD's new Instinct MI350 series AI accelerators should find a position in the market between NVIDIA's now-on-the-market Blackwell B200 AI GPUs, as well as its beefed-up Blackwell Ultra B300 AI GPUs.

Being able to "beat the computer" in chess has been something PC, gaming, and tech enthusiasts have discussed for decades. In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer made headlines worldwide for defeating Garry Kasparov in a chess game. Compared to the PC hardware we have in 2025, Deep Blue is now what you'd consider retro regarding its capabilities, even though it could brute force its way to evaluate 200 million chess moves per second.

Compared to Deep Blue, the Atari 2600 video game console is effectively from the Stone Age. It debuted in 1977, predating most modern gamers. With the rise of AI and chatbots like ChatGPT, you might think that it would have no problem beating Deep Blue in a round of chess, let alone going up against an Atari 2600 to play a game using the Atari Chess 'beginner' opponent difficulty setting.

You'd be wrong, as Citrix Architecture and Delivery specialist Robert Jr. Caruso decided to carry out this little experiment and posted his findings on LinkedIn.

AVerMedia's new CamStream 4K, which is launching later this month, turns your camera into a high-performance recording and streaming device. The CamStream 4K (BU113G2) connects directly to a DSLR, mirrorless, action cam like a GoPro, or camcorder to deliver low-latency, smooth 4K60 or 240FPS at 1080p streaming and recording.

The CamStream 4K offers an easy way to create professional production-quality video in real time. The device also supports the RGB24 color format for lifelike images and colors. This is a unique capture card from AVerMedia, leveraging the high-quality lenses and hardware inside pro-grade cameras as an alternative to webcams.

One of the key design points of AVerMedia's CamStream 4K is its ease of use, which can be seen with its simple plug-and-play USB-C interface. This means that you don't need to install specialized drivers - the device will just work when connected to a PC, iPad, or Android device.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is jet-setting once again, after his trips to Taiwan and the Middle East recently, where Jensen will be flying to Germany to announce the country's biggest AI factory this week.

NVIDIA has its eyes on the EU to expand its large-scale AI factory in Germany, where Jensen will meet with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin to discuss the deal. In new reports, they suggest that the EU wants to catch up in the ever-evolving AI race with the rest of the world but there is a major hurdle: it has no other option but NVIDIA for advanced AI chips.

Jensen is expected to unveil a new mega datacenter in Germany, using 100,000 of its high-end AI GPUs that come at a cost of around $30,000 per chip, which will see the project costing a total of around $3 billion for AI chips alone. The new deal would mean this is Germany's largest AI venture, and for NVIDIA it is another notch in its ever-growing AI dominance worldwide.

HP announced a few different workstation-focused laptops and Mini-PCs using AMD's new flagship Strix Halo APU, with a few of them on the market in laptop form, but now the HP Z2 Mini G1a workstation Mini-PC has launched with the new Strix Halo APU and it's available in the UK right now.

The HP ZBook Ultra 14 G1 laptop launched a few months ago with AMD's new Strix Halo APU, but now the company has its new Z2 Mini G1a workstation Mini-PC that packs more choices of AMD's new Strix Halo APUs, up to the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip.

HP offers its new Z2 Mini G1a with a flagship spec option that offers the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 "Strix Halo" APU, with a huge 128GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory, and 2TB Gen4 SSD. The Strix Halo APU includes an RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S integrated graphics. HP lists this on its UK website for £2,663.99, which works out to around $5079 USD or so.

Micron has announced that it has started shipping its new HBM4 36GB 12-Hi memory to "multiple key customers" with the first to likely be NVIDIA and its next-gen Rubin R100 AI GPU.

In a press release, the US-based memory maker said it's now shipping HBM4 36GB 12-Hi memory to select customers, built on its well-established 1b DRAM process node, 12-high advanced packaging technology, and highly capable memory built-in self-test (MBIST) feature. Micron says its new HBM4 provides seamless integration for customers and partners developing next-generation AI platforms.

Micron's new HBM4 has a 2048-bit memory interface that pushes more than 2.0TB/sec per memory stack, and over 60% more performance over its previous-gen HBM3 memory. These expansions in speed are perfect for AI, which is where HBM4 will lie: with AI GPUs inside of servers.

Bloober Team's imaginative new Deus ex Machina-inspired horror game Cronos: The New Dawn brings unique psychological terror to consoles and PC this fall.

Horror fans rejoice: The spine-tingling mavens at Bloober Team have another harrowing adventure in store for 2025. Having made a name for themselves with Layers of Fear, and pushed the bar with the acclaimed Silent Hill 2 remake, the Polish game devs are bringing a new original vision to life with a very Lovecraftian horror experience called Cronos: The New Dawn.

Cronos is a dystopian third-person horror survival game that channels Dead Space's mechanics while delving headfirst into a new deep canon of hallowed lore. The world is broken by an ongoing apocalypse and players are a kind of high-tech detective, uncovering stories through interacting with the literal ghosts of the past. The ghosts themselves are basically trapped in your suit, essentially making your giant space armor kit haunted--sort of like Johann Kraus from Hellboy 2.

Windows 11 has a new option inbound for quickly reducing the size of an image you're sharing.

This comes via the new Share option, which facilitates swiftly sharing a file via various apps, and it was spotted in testing by Windows Latest.

It works using a toggle that allows you to reduce the size of any given image without changing the resolution, picking from low, medium or high options, all of which offer a considerable reduction in file size.

Microsoft's big redesign for the Windows 11 Start menu has taken a step closer to its realization with the revamp now live in testing.

Leakers first uncovered the overhauled Start menu hidden in preview builds earlier this year, before Microsoft officially confirmed the project in May, and said it'd soon be in preview builds.

And the good news is it's now in the latest Windows 11 build (26200.5641) in the Dev channel so Windows Insiders can give it a whirl.

If the new tech demo for The Witcher 4 wasn't enough to spark your interest in giving The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt a go, or for long-time fans of the series, another play through, CD Projekt Red has just put the final nail in the coffin. I'm now re-downloading The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 as I need to experience both of these games once again with what was just unveiled.

CD Projekt Red has just unveiled The Witcher 3 Immerse Gamepack, and it was introduced via a new YouTube video posted to The Witcher YouTube channel, with the video featuring Marcin Przybyłowicz, Expert Composer at CD PROJEKT RED and the mind behind The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt soundtrack. So, what is the Immerse Gamepack? This new purchasable DLC is an AI-powered personalized spatial audio, headtracking, and custom EQ software that players can enable and hear The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt like they never have before.

Powered by Embody, the Immerse Gamepack, which has also been released for Cyberpunk 2077, expands the soundscape of both games with 360-degree precision. Here's how it works. Players will create their own personalized profile by capturing a 10-second video of their head and ears. They will do this by holding up their smartphone device, looking into the camera as if they are performing the setup process for FaceID, and turning their head from side to side, showing off their ears. The app tells users to remove any hair away from the ears as it needs a clear view for scanning purposes.

NVIDIA commissioned Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, and Micron to develop SoCAMM: a new memory module standard conceived by NVIDIA, with Micron reportedly the first to receive approval for mass production... putting the US-based memory manufacturer ahead of its South Korean rivals.

In new South Korean media reports picked up by insider @Jukenlosreve, we're hearing that the new SoCAMM standard is a memory module conceived by NVIDIA, consisting of 16-stacked LPDDR5X chips bundled in groups of four.

HBM is a DRAM that supports GPUs in AI accelerators, but SoCAMM is a new DRAM that attaches to the CPU, and while it connects to the CPU, the primary role of SoCAMM is to provide auxiliary support to make sure AI accelerates reach their peak performance. We should expect to see SoCAMM make an appearance in NVIDIA's next-gen AI GPUs -- Rubin -- which will be dropping in 2026.