Ingenious modder converts countertop ice machine into an RTX 3060 GPU cooler with a beer fridge thermostat — mod reduces temps by up to 62% in games, Cyberpunk 2077 runs at 22°C

Turns out, an ice machine can cool a GPU perfectly fine as long as you’re willing to modify it to the extreme and are patient enough to deal with the leaks.
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Open-source Vulkan driver NVK gains experimental DLSS support — bringing Nvidia’s upscaling tech to Linux via imported CUDA binaries

NVK, the community-built open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs in Mesa, has gained experimental DLSS support.

Unlucky PC builder sent RTX 5070 from Amazon, gets DVD rewriter and a busted logic board from an early 2000’s Kenwood AV receiver instead — $700 GPU turns out to be e-waste thanks to return scam

Another person has fallen victim to Amazon’s generous return policy, as they received a disc drive, a mousepad, and an AV receiver instead of the $700 RTX 5070 they ordered.
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Scammers in China sell $222 RTX 4090 with fake GPU die made out of plastic instead of real silicon — marked with 2030 production dates, the card didn’t even have working VRAM

Nvidia dupes keep getting more sophisticated as time goes on, with the latest example using a plastic die instead of real silicon on an RTX 4090.
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Nvidia releases RTX Remix 1.5 with new RTX IO compression reducing mod file sizes by up to 37% — update also adds Smooth Normals and ‘RTX Remix Skills’ Agents

Nvidia has updated RTX Remix with a bunch of new features that will help improve the fidelity and reduce the file size of modded games, along with the complexity of developing said mods.
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Intel’s long-lost data center prototype ‘Arctic Sound’ Xe-HP multi-tile GPU surfaces in new engineering sample — Company’s cancelled AI processor features 32GB of HBM2E

Intel’s cancelled “Arctic Sound” AI GPU based on the original Xe-HP architecture has been pictured sporting two tiles and 32GB of HBM2E.
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Nvidia raises RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU pricing to $13,250 — 55% increase over MSRP in a year’s time

Nvidia now sells the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell graphics cards for $13,250, while partner offerings start at $11,359.99.
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Radeon RX 9070 XT finally appears in Steam Hardware Survey — RDNA 4 flagship surprisingly lands just behind RTX 5080

AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card has finally penetrated the Steam Survey video card results table, going straight in at position 25.
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Memory famine compels GPU vendors to re-release 2020 graphics cards — GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 3050 return to Asian market

Graphics card manufacturer Manli adds new GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 3050 SKUs to its portfolio.