It looks like we have an ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card experiencing "coil whine" with a Redditor reporting more "loud noises" on the expensive flagship GPU. Check it out:

In a new thread on Reddit, user "MutedMobile3977" said that his ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card was giving out a "coil whine" issue and that he figured the issue out after the GPU began making loud noises when under load. He looked closer, discovering that the TUF RTX 5090 card had a damaged capacitor, something that's rare on a high-end GPU.

Physical damage while the GPU itself is running is something that's not common, especially for a new card like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090. The GPU itself is running without a problem apart from the loud noises and coil whine, and if a capacitor is at fault, we should've expected some issues with the GPU running... but that's not happening... so far, that is.

The PC supply chain is showing some momentum in a post-tariff world from President Trump, with new data from analyst firm Canalys showing that big US-based tech companies are importing PC products in huge volumes, so much so that they're at a 4-year high.

US trade policy changes are causing headaches for many, with tech companies including Apple, Dell, HP, and many others importing PC products in mass quantities, with the shipment increased to levels beyond what we saw during the COVID-19 pandemic according to Canalys.

Q1 2025 PC shipments increased by 9.4% to 62.7 million units, with these shipments including desktops, laptops, and workstations, showing that the overall PC supply chain has been eager to dodge the new US tariffs. Wccftech points out that major tech companies have been forcing their suppliers to speed up the production process, with shipment volumes massively increasing, with the site noting that the supply chain has been successful in "front-running" the new policies.

Corsair has just revealed its new Call of Duty: Warzone Collection, celebrating the 5th anniversary of Call of Duty: Warzone with a slew of new high-end gaming products. Check them out:

We have an exclusive collection of new Corsair x Call of Duty: Warzone goodies, from gaming PCs and gaming laptops, through to new controllers, Elgato devices, and more. We've got new Call of Duty-themed DDR5 memory in Corsair's growing Vengeance family of RAM, as well as a new Vengeance a7500 Call of Duty: Warzone Edition Gaming PC, powered by the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card.

Thi La, President and COO at Corsair, said: "We are thrilled to team up with Activision again as our world-class brands come together for the return of Verdansk. This powerful collaboration extends across multiple product categories at Corsair including Drop, Elgato, ORIGIN PC and SCUF Gaming, bringing true high-performance to true Call of Duty: Warzone fans as they squad up and drop in".

ASUS has just launched its new X870 MAX Gaming motherboards that will slot in between the TUF and PRIME series motherboards, acting as new budget-focused X870 mobos.

ASUS motherboards are usually priced higher apart from their PRIME series motherboards, which has allowed ASRock, GIGABYTE, and MSI to position themselves more competitively in the market, but that all changes with ASUS's introduction of the new MAX series motherboards.

TUF is positioned as higher-end than PRIME, while acting as lower than ROG, while offering features that are great for the price point in its mid-range market. ASUS's new MAX series motherboards will be an alternative to TUF with some compromises of course, but it'll be better featured than the PRIME series.

Apple is reportedly moving fast into a lighter and more affordable Vision Pro headset, with another that will be tethered to a Mac with zero latency for the enterprise.

In his new PowerOn newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman writes that Apple had previously been working on a "more basic refresh" of the Vision Pro -- that would move from the M2 processor in the current-gen Vision Pro, to the new M5 chip without any major hardware changes -- but now, that's not happening.

Gurman writes that Apple's higher-end Vision Pro will be for high-end enterprise applications, with the idea from Apple is to reportedly create an ultra-low-latency system for streaming the display from a Mac. Some users have been using the Apple Vision Pro for things like viewing imagery during surgery, or for things like flight simulators, which are use cases where you want the least amount of lag as possible, and that's not possible with a wireless display.

Samsung Electronics is the first company to receive government approval to extend working hours in order to boost its semiconductor research and development (R&D) staff, with the South Korean government approving a new policy to increase the industry's semiconductor competitiveness, boosting work hours up to 64 hours per week.

In a new report from Korean media outlet Chosun, industry sources said that the Ministry of Employment and Labor's Gyeonggi branch approved the request on April 9. The new exemption allows Samsung's chip R&D staffers to work up to 64 hours per week for the first 3 months, and up to 60 hours per week for the 3 months after, exceeding the 52-hour statutory workweek that South Korea allows.

The South Korean government revised its labor rules on March 14, extending the permitted overtime for semiconductor R&D roles to 6 months per application, up from 3 months previously. South Korean companies can now seek approval for a one-time, 6-month extension under the new rules.

MSI's next-generation Claw gaming handheld is reportedly going to be powered by AMD's upcoming Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU, marking a move away from Intel and its Meteor Lake chip used in the current Claw handheld.

Intel has launched its new Core Ultra 200V series "Lunar Lake" processors, but the uptake on gaming handhelds isn't that great -- because AMD's range of APUs are continuing to get better and better -- especially with its new Strix Point and Strix Halo APUs crushing anything Intel has on the market.

In a new post on X by leaker @Haze2K1, it looks like MSI's new Claw gaming handheld will be powered by AMD's unannounced, but upcoming Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU, the best of its upcoming Ryzen Z2 family of chips based on Zen 5 + RDNA 3.5 and an XDNA 2-based NPU for AI workloads (if you thought handhelds were safe from AI, you were wrong).

Alphabet has committed to spending $75 billion on building out its data center capacity, even with all of the hoopla surrounding US tariffs.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that the $75B investment would buy the chips and build the servers needed to increase Alphabet (Google) and its core offerings, including search, as well as continued support in the development of AI services including its Gemini AI model. Pichai said: "The opportunity with AI is as big as it gets" as a surprise appearance was made at Google's annual conference for its cloud computing unit.

When asked about the potential for US tariffs to increase the cost of building out its data centers, Google Cloud infrastructure unit vice president and general manager, Sachin Gupta, said that the cost of importing hardware might increase but customer demand continued to necessitate the increased investment, he told Reuters: "We're all processing what's happening with tariffs".

ASUS held a ROG event in China over the weekend, unveiling a slew of new products including the flagship ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme motherboard, check it out:

The new ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme motherboard features an E-ATX design, with a slick all-black theme with a few accents in silver. ASUS is using high-end power delivery with multiple VRMs in the form of a 20+2+2 phase (110A) power design, powered by dual 8-pin EPS power connectors.

We have 4 x DDR5 DIMM slots that support up to 256GB of memory, with up to DDR5-8200 speeds supported, as well as a ROG Q-DIMM.2 slot next to the memory DIMMs, which can support an AIC (add-in card) with dual M.2 SSD slots for additional SSD storage. The ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme motherboard features dual PCIe 5.0 x16 and M.2 slots with at least 5 slots (3 physical + 2 x Q-DIMM).

ASUS has just introduced its new ROG NUC 2025 Mini-PC which features up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX "Arrow Lake" CPU and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU, all inside of a tiny 3L chassis.

Inside, the ASUS ROG NUC 2025 features a 3-liter design and dual heatsinks, cooled by 3 fans in total to ensure those chips inside stay nice and cool. We have up to the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX "Arrow Lake-HX" processor (24C/24T in total with 8 Performance Cores and 16 Efficiency Cores) at up to 5.4GHz, 76MB of cache, and a maximum turbo power of up to 160W.

On the GPU side of things, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU features 7680 CUDA cores, 16GB of GDDR7 memory, and should feature performance that sits at around the desktop RTX 5070 graphics card.

President Trump has just announced that the Unites States' reciprocal tariffs won't happen on smartphones, computers, and other electronics, which is a major win for US companies like Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, and more.

The exclusions will apply to smartphones, laptops, storage products, CPUs, memory chips, as well as flat-screen displays. These are some of the most popular electronics products in the world, and most of them aren't made in the US, with their innards (processor, memory, etc) made in Taiwan, South Korea, or China.

The exemptions cover nearly $390 billion worth of US imports based on US 2024 trade statistics, reports Reuters, including over $101 billion from China. President Trump just enforced 125% tariffs on goods coming from China, with the new exemptions made because President Trump wants to give these companies more time to move their production onto US soil.

Ahead of its release next week, PlayStation has revealed the set of enhancements Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be getting on the PS5 and PS5 Pro.

Writing in a new update on the official PlayStation blog, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be releasing onto both PlayStation 5 consoles with DualSense controller features such as haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, with the addition of the lightbar on the controller being linked to Indy's current status.

For example, if Indy enters combat, the LED light around the touchpad will turn yellow or pulse red if Indy's health gets low. As for performance, PlayStation writes that the title benefits from SSD optimization for "frictionless loading" that's paired with a stable 60FPS and a "high-quality resolution."

One of the biggest games on the original Nintendo Switch was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and while fans of the newly announced Switch 2 gritted their teeth at the price for the Switch 2 version of the game, those teeth are now undoubted brandished at the realization the DLC for the game isn't included within that initial purchase.

Nintendo will be selling the DLC for Breath of the Wild for an additional $20, which is on top of the game's higher $70 listing price. Speaking to IGN Nintendo has confirmed players after the DLC Expansion Pass will need to pay an additional $20 as a separate purchase, bringing the total to $90 for a game that originally released on the Wii U and specifically in 2017.

For those who already own a copy of Breath of the Wild, those users will still be able to play Breath of the Wild and its DLC with no additional costs. Moreover, players who already own a copy of Breath of the Wild and want the upgraded Switch 2 version will only need to pay $10, which will get them better framerates, higher resolutions, and HDR support. So, to summarize. If you don't own a copy of Breath of the Wild and intend to play it on the Switch 2 be prepared to fork out $70, and if you also want the DLC, add another $20 on top of that.

As the apparent release of NVIDIA's RTX 5060 Ti comes close - it's rumored to arrive next week - we're catching leaks that are purportedly showing finished graphics cards.

Not only have we got a look at a bunch of MSI models of the RTX 5060 Ti, but also a graphics card from ASUS, all of which were reported by VideoCardz.

Apply your own seasoning at this point, but there are plenty of images and they look genuine enough, with the ASUS leak seemingly being direct from the company in the form of a teaser for the Hatsune Miku edition of the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB. (See the above post on X from Uniko's Hardware).

A Minecraft Movie has been a pop culture hit, earning itself the most successful opening weekend for a video game adaptation, taking the crown from The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Now the director of the movie has responded to teen fans participating in a viral meme where theaters are destroyed with the throwing of popcorn and drinks.

Since the release of A Minecraft Movie a viral trend has captured the minds of the youth on the internet and a viral meme has formed where fans of the movie are preparing to throw food and drink around, and in some cases body slam theater employees during a specific part of the movie. The part of the movie that has spawned numerous videos of teens trashing cinemas is when Jack Black's character says "Chicken Jockey," and at this moment, teens proceed to scream "Chicken Jockey" and throw their food and drinks around the theater.

This phenomenon is happening in viewings of the film around the world, and in one case, the police were called. The director of the film Jared Hess has now responded to the response from passionate fans of the movie, saying, "It's weird when you're having too much fun and the cops get called."

NVIDIA's RTX 5070 has slipped under its MSRP in another country, this time in the UK - perhaps indicating that the mid-range Blackwell GPU might do the same in the US (and other regions besides) before long.

The Gainward Python III version of the GeForce RTX 5070 has had its price tag cut to £518.99 at Overclockers, a major UK retailer, as KitGuru noticed (via VideoCardz). On top of that, we also spotted that the Zotac Solid spin of the RTX 5070 has also been reduced to this level.

The RTX 5070 carried an official MSRP of £539 in the UK originally, but as VideoCardz was sharp-eyed enough to pick up, the official NVIDIA site in the UK now lists this GPU at £529.

One of Apple's biggest blunders in years is the advertisement of an advanced Siri upgrade under the guise of "Apple Intelligence," which has now been officially delayed by the company. But, Apple used this feature to sell the iPhone 16 generation, and still to this day, the biggest and most sought-after feature within Apple's umbrella of Apple Intelligence features is yet to be released.

We are now getting some behind-the-scenes details about why a fully integrated and upgraded Siri hasn't come to fruition and the position Apple was in with the technology before an announcement was made at WWDC 2024. According to a report from The Information, former Apple employees speaking to Wayne Ma, the journalist behind the recent piece, high-profile Apple leadership styles are partly to blame. John Giannandrea joined Apple in 2018 and began overseeing the development of Siri, with his official title being the Senior Vice President of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy.

According to the report, Siri engineers already felt like "second-class citizens" at Apple, and this problem was exacerbated by struggling to keep up with constant iOS updates and features being released by the iOS software team led by Craig Federighi, Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering.

Ubisoft has made an argument in a court case that people who buy games don't actually have ownership rights over them.

The comments from the Assassin's Creed developer came about during a dismissal of a case filed against them by two The Crew players who have taken the company to court over its decision to shut down game servers last year. Ubisoft announced that 2014's The Crew will no longer be playable as it is switching off the servers of the game at the end of March 2024. Despite having ownership of the game, whether that be digitally or physically, owners will no longer have access to the title after the aforementioned date.

The two players suing Ubisoft over this decision state they were "under the impression" they were "paying to own and possess the video game The Crew instead of paying for a limited license to use The Crew." The lawsuit alleges that Ubisoft violated California's False Advertising Law, Unfair Competition Law, and Consumer Legal Remedies Act, along with "common law fraud and breach of warranty claims." Moreover, the lawsuit also claims Ubisoft broke California's state law surrounding gift cards, which are prohibited from expiring.

US President Donald Trump wants to bring as much manufacturing as he possibly can to the United States, and among many other products, Apple's iPhone is near the top of a very long list.

Trump's newly imposed tariffs targeting China are being used as a strong-arm maneuver to get the nation back to the negotiation table so a more favorable deal with the US can be worked out. Additionally, the high tariffs against China are to incentivize US companies to move manufacturing to the US by making it not financially viable for their products to be made in China.

Currently, Trump is aiming to implement a 145% tariff on imports from China, which is where Apple manufactures anywhere between 90% and 95% of its iPhones. Additionally, more than half of Apple's sales are iPhones, with a commanding 55.6% of its total hardware sales.

AMD's flagship RDNA 4 GPU has been one of the most well-received Team Red GPU launches in a long time. As seen in our reviews of various Radeon RX 9070 XT models from GIGABYTE, ASRock, and Sapphire, the massive improvement to ray-tracing performance and the arrival of FSR 4 have closed the feature gap in a big way when it comes to GeForce RTX versus Radeon RX.

However, unlike previous generations, which saw AMD release reference models, this time around, there weren't any, which has left many wondering what happened. With only a handful of models available at the competitive $599 MSRP price point, a reference or 'Founders Edition' style design from AMD could have given PC gamers another avenue for picking up a highly sought-after Radeon RX 9070 XT.

Still, a few of these reference designs were produced and shipped to OEM partners to be used with new PCs. One of these models was recently spotted on the Chinese-based Chiphell forums, where the buyer spent 5499 RMB or $748 USD to acquire it on Goofish. The user has disassembled the card and benchmarked it.