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Endorfy unveils a bunch of new products at Computex 2025: Celeris 1800 keyboard, Fishtank cases
Endorfy has unveiled a variety of new products at Computex 2025, including the Celeris 1800 keyboard and Fishtank case ranges. The Polish manufacturer might not have the instant name recognition of some manufacturers, but that is sure to change as the company makes a push into markets around the globe.
The Celeris 1800 keyboard in particular looks like an impressive piece of kit after our hands-on at the Endorfy booth at the Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei.
The Celeris 1800 Keyboard maintains full-sized functionality with arrow keys and a numpad, yet comes in a compact form factor. It features Yellow linear mechanical switches developed from a collaboration between Endorfy and switch manufacturer Gateron.
NVIDIA's new Blackwell AI GPU for China rumored to be named 6000D or B40, expected to use GDDR7
NVIDIA's new special edition Blackwell AI GPU for China is expected to roll out later this year, and could be named 6000D or B40 according to the latest reports.
In a new post on X by insider @Jukanlosreve, we're hearing that the new NVIDIA 6000D or B40 -- whatever it ends up being called -- will be based on Blackwell and not Hopper, with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang saying last week that NVIDIA's new AI GPU for China wouldn't be based on Hopper as H20 "can't be modified anymore".
NVIDIA's new 6000D or B40 will reportedly shift to GDDR7 instead of HBM, also lining up with previous rumors, with @Jukanlosreve saying that the GDDR7 memory bandwidth will be around 1.7TB/sec, and that the NVLink speed is estimated to be around 550GB/sec per direction, and that it will support CUDA.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 SUPER leaks again: full GB203 GPU, 24GB GDDR7 at 32Gbps, 420W+ power
NVIDIA's beefed-up GeForce RTX 5080 SUPER graphics card is back in the headlines, with leaked specs suggesting we can expect 24GB of GDDR7 memory clocked at 32Gbps, 10752 CUDA cores, and 400W+ of power.
It was only earlier this month that leaked Moore's Law is Dead said that we were to expect the new RTX 5080 SUPER with 24GB and the new RTX 5070 SUPER with 18GB later this year, with between 7% and 15% performance gains over their non-SUPER counterparts.
But in a new post by inside @kopite7kimi on X, we've got some fresh specs that include the PG147-SKU35, GB203-450-A1 GPU, 10752 CUDA cores, 24GB of GDDR7 clocked at 32Gbps on a 256-bit memory bus, and a rather hefty 400W+ of power consumption.
AMD unveils Ryzen Threadripper 9000 'Shimada Peak' CPUs: up to 96 cores, 192 threads at 5.4GHz
AMD made its high-end Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series "Shimada Peak" CPUs official today at Computex 2025, maxing out at a holy-crap 96 cores and 192 threads of Zen 5 processing power, rocking along at up to 5.4GHz clock speeds.
AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series CPUs are based on the Zen 5 architecture and fabbed on TSMC's new 4nm process node, with up to 96 cores and 192 threads, up to 384MB of L3 cache, and clock speeds of up to 5.4GHz. We've also got enhanced AVX-512 instructions with full 512b data path.
There's up to 128 lanes of PCIe 5.0 available, so if you want to throw in some pro-level workstation GPUs and a bunch of Gen5 AICs to push up to 113GB/sec (if you're using Phison's new beast E28 Gen5 SSDs for example, more about that here). AMD also has up to 8-channel DDR5-6400 ECC memory support with its new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series "Shimada Peak" CPUs.
MSI's first 500Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor is simply glorious
MSI has showcased its upcoming 500Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor at Computex 2025, where I was given a walk-through of the new monitor specifications and what gamers can expect with this new bleeding-edge of gaming monitor technology.
Computex 2025 is officially underway, and MSI was kind enough to give me a tour of its booth, where it demoed several of its new gaming monitor offerings. This year, MSI has showcased the previously reported on MAG 272QP QD-OLED X50 in all its glory.
This latest gaming monitor is the first to come to market with its 500Hz-capable QD-OLED panel and sports a 2560 x 1440 (WHQHD) resolution paired with a 0.03ms (GtG) response time. In addition to the previously mentioned specifications, the MAG 272QP QD-OLED X50 comes equipped with an array of connectivity options, such as 2x HDMI 2.1 ports, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a (HBR3) input, 1x headphone out, and 1x USB-C port with/ 15W PD charging.
Continue reading: MSI's first 500Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor is simply glorious (full post)
InWin unveils DLITE case showing how sleek PC gaming cases can get
InWin has officially showcased its new PC gaming chassis and cases at Computex 2025, with the company giving us a tour of its suite where we got a close-up look of its latest offerings.
This year, InWin is celebrating its 40th year and to commemorate the achievements the company has made along the way it has designed a unique, room-commanding PC chassis called the ChronoMancy. Paired with that monstrous chassis are InWin's other offerings, which include the DLITE, a streamlined ATX chassis inspired by the DUBLI's design with its aluminium accents and unified structure.
The DLITE is a mid-tower case that features aluminium, tempered glass, and SECC. It harbors 8x PCI-E expansion slots, has a maximum GPU length of 380mm, maximum CPU heatsink height of 165mm, 2x 3.5" / 2x 2.5" internal drive bays, a wide variety of thermal solutions that include air cooling fans on the front and rear, along with water cooling radiator support, and an extensive I/O ports with 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C, 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1, and a HD Audio port.
Continue reading: InWin unveils DLITE case showing how sleek PC gaming cases can get (full post)
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 GPU announced, RDNA 4 and 32GB of memory
The new AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 GPU has been announced at Computex 2025, bringing RDNA 4 to AI-powered workstations. With 32GB of GDDR6 memory, 96 TFLOPS of Peak Half-Precision, and 1531 TOPS of INT4 Sparse AI performance, you're looking at up to 2X better performance than the previous generation's AMD Radeon PRO W7800 32GB GPU.
With 32GB of VRAM, AMD notes that the Radeon AI PRO R9700 is better equipped for running advanced local text-to-image AI models and LLMs like DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B Q6 and Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct 2503 Q8. With expanded AMD ROCm on Radeon, there'll be support for a "broader range of AI and compute workloads."
The first chart in the presentation for the new AI workstation GPU compares the average tokens per second performance against the GeForce RTX 5080, showing an increase of up to 496%. Check out the chart below.
Continue reading: AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 GPU announced, RDNA 4 and 32GB of memory (full post)
AMD confirms Radeon RX 9060 XT, 8GB and 16GB models coming
Ahead of Computex 2025 kicking off, AMD held a pre-brief with the media, during which it formally announced and confirmed the specs for its mainstream RDNA 4 GPU, the Radeon RX 9060 XT. Although we'll still have to wait for official benchmark performance, pricing, and retail availability (as far as we can tell, the cards are all good to go), here's everything we know so far - straight from the source.
First, we have some general performance info - potentially great news. As we've seen with the flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT, RDNA 4 has been a game changer for ray-tracing performance on an AMD GPU, which will be the case with the Radeon RX 9060 XT. The Radeon RX 9060 XT's 32 RDNA 4 Compute Units or CUs "double ray-tracing throughput" compared to the Radeon RX 7600.
With 821 TOPS of AI performance (INT4 Sparse), the Radeon RX 9060 XT will be able to leverage AMD's AI-powered FSR 4, finally an alternative to NVIDIA DLSS, to deliver more 1080p and 1440p gaming performance while minimizing the impact on image fidelity.
Continue reading: AMD confirms Radeon RX 9060 XT, 8GB and 16GB models coming (full post)
Doom: The Dark Ages reaches major success milestone, Bethesda confirms
Doom: The Dark Ages actually did exceptionally well in terms of player count, reaching more than 3 million people since launch, significantly beating player numbers for Doom Eternal.
Early reports suggested that Doom: The Dark Ages wasn't doing all that well, at least when it comes to Steam adoption. The game ended up having the lowest concurrent player count on Steam out of all the modern-day Doom trilogy games. The Dark Ages currently sits at #85 on Steam's concurrent user peak with little over 15,000 gamers playing--which is about half of its all-time peak of 31,470 users. This is just one very small sampling of The Dark Ages' user base, though.
Bethesda today confirmed that Doom: The Dark Ages reached 3 million players in around a week after the FPS' official launch: "Thank you for making DOOM: The Dark Ages the biggest launch in id's history - 7x faster to 3 million players than DOOM Eternal."
Continue reading: Doom: The Dark Ages reaches major success milestone, Bethesda confirms (full post)
FTC to contest Microsoft-Activision merger in admin trial, evidentiary hearing date set
The Federal Trade Commission has set a date for a key part in its administrative case against the Microsoft-Activision merger.
Despite losing a case for a preliminary injunction in 2023, and despite Microsoft completing its $68.7 billion acquisition by integrating Activision Blizzard King into the company, the FTC will still pursue its challenge of the Microsoft-Activision merger in its internal courts. At the time of writing, the case is still pending.
Today the FTC has filed a motion that delayed the case's evidentiary hearing date from May 28 to July 2025. This will allow all groups (including the FTC, Microsoft, and even Nintendo of America) more time to compile information required for the evidentiary hearing. For reference, since it was held in a district court, the evidentiary hearing for the previous FTC v MSFT temporary injunction case was public, and both gamers and the press learned a multitude of information from these proceedings. Parts of these administrative proceedings will be made public, unless an Administrative Law Judge orders an "in camera" treatment to the evidence (Nintendo, for example, has requested in camera for its submissions).
New city in Cyberpunk 2077 sequel feels 'less like Blade Runner, more like Chicago gone wrong'
Cyberpunk series creator Mike Pondsmith lets slip new details about CD Projekt's upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 sequel.
Project Orion, the codename for CD Projekt's new Cyberpunk sequel, will feature a new city that incorporates a unique style. Orion may be in early pre-production phases of development with just 84 developers on the project right now, but the studio is laying out the foundations for the game. This early iteration has been seen by Cyberpunk franchise creator Mike Pondsmith.
In a recent interview with Polish publication tvygry, Pondsmith said that Orion would take us to a brand new city that feels "less like Blade Runner" and more like "Chicago gone wrong." Interestingly enough, we'll still be going to Night City in Orion.
Apple must 'show cause' on why courts shouldn't order Fortnite back onto App Store
UPDATE: Fortnite is back on the App Store, Epic Games has officially confirmed, putting an end to a years-long battle with Apple.
Epic Games wants Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to order Apple to allow Fortnite back on the App Store. Now Judge Rogers is putting the burden on Apple to prove why the courts shouldn't enforce Epic's proposed motion.
Earlier today, we reported that Epic Games has prposed that the Northern California district court esentially order Fortnite back on the App Store. Over a week ago, Epic had re-submitted Fortnite to the App Store, which Apple declined. Epic's proposal reiterates that Judge Rogers, who is presiding over the case, found that Apple broke the court's previous injunction order. As relief for this violation, Epic proposes that Judge Rogers enforce the injunction partly by ordering Apple to accept a "compliant version" of Fortnite:
Epic asks courts to order Apple to bring Fortnite back to App Store
UPDATE: Fortnite is back on the App Store, Epic Games has officially confirmed, putting an end to a years-long battle with Apple.
Epic Games makes a new filing that asks courts to force Apple to allow Fortnite onto the App Store.
Despite Epic's technical win, the Epic vs Apple saga isn't yet over. Epic's formal submission of Fortnite has been rejected from the App Store, and Epic has responded by filing a motion for injunction enforcement which asks California's northern district courts to essentially force Apple to allow a rules-adherent version of Fortnite onto the App Store.
Continue reading: Epic asks courts to order Apple to bring Fortnite back to App Store (full post)
Gearbox boss on $80 Borderlands 4: 'If you're a real fan you'll find a way to make it happen'
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford's comments on $80 game pricing has incensed some gamers who are critical of the new software MSRP.
Thanks to Nintendo's efforts with the Switch 2, video games now cost $80. Not all video games though--just a select few like Mario Kart World. But Pandora's box has been opened, and while companies are deciding to price their games on a case-by-case basis, the $80 tier has been established for mainline flagship games, at least on the Switch 2. And for games with simultaneous multi-platform launches, companies can now elevate pricing to $80 on other platforms to make things even. So which games will cost $80? Will GTA 6? Maybe. What about Borderlands 4, which is also getting a Switch 2 port?
One fan brought up the possibility of Borderlands 4 costing $80 to Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford in a May 13 Tweet, and Pitchford's response has agitated some gamers.
ZOTAC's low-profile palm-sized GeForce RTX 5060 is one of the smallest GPUs we've seen
NVIDIA's mainstream GeForce RTX 5060 GPU is out this week, and at Computex 2025, we've already seen countless models and designs from the company's partners, many of which look familiar. However, one particular RTX 5060 caught our eye and was found at ZOTAC's booth.
You're looking at a prototype and a card still in development. Alongside its low-profile design, it's also one of the smallest RTX 50 Series GPUs you're likely to find - small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.
It's a reference spec model with three fans, and it looks like a miniature version of ZOTAC GAMING's triple-fan SOLID series of cards for the GeForce RTX 50 Series. The fans are tiny, and it's so light that at a glance, you'd probably mistake it for a toy of a real GPU.
NVIDIA and Streamlabs officially unveil powerful AI sidekicks for livestreamers
Streamlabs and NVIDIA have showcased a significant upgrade to the suite of features available within the livestreaming software, with the head of Streamlabs, Ashray Urs, giving us a live demo of the new AI-powered software working in action.
A partnership between Streamlabs, Inworld AI, and NVIDIA has created what is called the Streamlabs Intelligent Streaming Agent, a new digital human that is capable of assisting a livestreamer by carrying out commands in real-time. Ashray showed three sets of functionality with the new AI Agent: It being a "sidekick" to the streamer, which includes how a streamer can interact with the agent and leverage it being aware of what is happening in-game, the agent being used a stream producer, which includes it leveling up the overall production quality, and how the agent can be used as technical support source.
The above video shows Ashray asking the AI agent, "Where should I drop?" while in a simulated Fortnite game lobby. The AI responds with a location. Ashray then proceeds to showcase how a streamer can use the AI agent to poll the stream chat for an answer, which it will then scrape and provide as an audio answer. Another way streamers can use the AI agent as a sidekick is by having the agent ask the streamer questions when the streamer is quiet. The purpose of that feature is to help the streamer be entertaining/engaging when people are watching the stream.
Virtual pop star Hatsune Miku has her own TUF Gaming peripheral collection
It's okay if you don't know who or what Hatsune Miku is, especially if you're like me, someone who grew up playing games in the era of VHS tapes and Nintendo consoles that took cartridges. Hatsune Miku is a popular Japanese blue-haired pop singer who uses a computer-generated voice and 3D visuals to perform on stage. She's virtual, a massive star, and somehow not all that strange in the age of AI.
At Computex 2025, Hatsune Miku had her custom PC gaming peripherals on display thanks to a new collaboration between ASUS and Crypton Future Media. Releasing under the company's TUF gaming brand, the collection is vibrant, colorful, and impressive - and probably something you'd rush out to obtain if you're a fan.
At the show, we got a closer look at the TUF Gaming H1 Gen II Hatsune Miku Edition wired gaming headset, the company's first headset with the raised metallic headband look. It sports 40 mm ASUS Essence drivers with support for 7.1 spatial audio, and its USB Type-A connection is compatible with both PC and PlayStation 5.
Here's a big play at Build 2025: It's now free for devs to get apps or games on Microsoft Store
Microsoft has made it free for developers to get their wares onto the Microsoft Store in Windows 11 or Windows 10.
Previously, a software or game developer would have to pay a small fee to secure a spot in the Microsoft Store. That one-off payment of $19 has now been dropped, however, and it won't cost a cent to get an app on the store.
Microsoft announced this at Build 2025, noting that it is the first major digital store to make such a move. Windows Central, which flagged up this development, pointed out that Google charges $25 to get an app onto the Play Store.
Samsung wants to make Switch 2 OLED panels, Nintendo may beat sales forecast by 5 million units
Samsung also wants to make high-quality panels for any potential Switch 2 OLED hardware that Nintendo may be working on.
It's been confirmed that the Switch 2's will use a custom chip built on NVIDIA's Ampere architecture, which is built on Samsung's 8nm process. In fact, NVIDIA's Ampere-based RTX 30 series video cards were built on this process, formally called 8N NVIDIA. The Switch 2's custom SoC (system-on-chip) will use this same 8nm process. But that's not the only thing Samsung wants to make for the Switch 2.
Samsung has expressed interest in securing a deal with Nintendo to make OLED panels for any successor Switch 2 OLED models, sources have told Bloomberg's Takashi Mochizuki. The report didn't mention that such a deal has been struck, however--only that Samsung had "pushed" for the opportunity. The original Switch OLED released in 2021 uses both Samsung memory and OLED panels.
Fed up with your RTX 5000 laptop GPU running a bit slow? NVIDIA's new graphics driver has a fix
NVIDIA's latest graphics driver has fixed a bug with its RTX 5000 laptop graphics cards which caused them to underperform somewhat.
VideoCardz highlighted the cure for the sluggishness related only to mobile Blackwell GPUs, which meant their TGP wasn't being pushed as high as it should've been, leading to a drop in performance.
Reviews of gaming laptops with RTX 5000 GPUs inside had uncovered this oddity with power delivery, but it wasn't something NVIDIA commented on. Oddly, as VideoCardz pointed out, the official bug fix was only documented via the notes on NVIDIA's GeForce forums, and not with the release notes accompanying the actual driver.






















