Nvidia’s latest driver update breaks mVolt+ overclocking functionality — Nifty, open-source app allowed users to increase the power limit to 700W on their RTX 50-series GPUs without hardware mods

Overclocking utility mVolt+ seems to have been blocked by the latest Nvidia driver update, hard crashing the moment you try to adjust the core power limit. However, it seems like a driver conflict more than a deliberate blacklist since another app, Hydra 2.3B Pro, is working just fine.

DLSS 5 mod brings next-gen tech to old Ampere GPUs, but frame rates are horrible — most games tank to single digits, high-end GPUs can hit up to 40 FPS in some cases
DLSS 5 mod brings next-gen tech to old Ampere GPUs, but frame rates are horrible — most games tank to single digits, high-end GPUs can hit up to 40 FPS in some cases

DLSS 5 now runs on Ampere GPUs thanks to a patched DLL, but performance is expectedly poor for the most part. You can get up to 30-40 FPS in edge cases with minimum in-game settings, but newer titles can tank FPS to single digits.

Adata Urban Tapsafe 2TB review: Solid-state storage you unlock with your phone
Adata Urban Tapsafe 2TB review: Solid-state storage you unlock with your phone

Adata’s Urban Tapsafe portable SSD sports magnetic face plates, a metal mounting clip, the ability to unlock the drive with your phone, and share selective access with others via an app.

China’s top DRAM maker CXMT sues Pentagon over its blacklisting — argues chips are standard civilian JEDEC spec, not defense hardware

Chinese DRAM maker CXMT wants the US Department of Defense to remove it from the list of companies linked to the Chinese military.

Corsair RM1000e (2026) ThermalProtect power supply review: Temperature-sensing 12V-2×6 cable shuts the GPU down before a connector can melt
Corsair RM1000e (2026) ThermalProtect power supply review: Temperature-sensing 12V-2×6 cable shuts the GPU down before a connector can melt

Corsair’s mainstream RMe series returns for 2026 with Platinum-class efficiency, a 500W fanless window, and a temperature-sensing 12V-2×6 cable that shuts the GPU down before a connector can melt.

Modders solder power cables directly to RTX 5090 PCB to eliminate notorious melting 16-pin connector — bare-board Galax HOF card pulls 600W under chiller cooling
Modders solder power cables directly to RTX 5090 PCB to eliminate notorious melting 16-pin connector — bare-board Galax HOF card pulls 600W under chiller cooling

TecLab, a Brazilian YouTuber, has just shown the most dangerous method of bypassing the 16-pin connector on an RTX 5090 — by soldering wires directly to the card’s PCB. In an attempt to save the GPU from melting, they’ve created perhaps an even bigger fire hazard.

Magnetic core memory USB drive transfers files in sneakernet first — text and image files get moved between PCs via hugely constrained archaic memory tech
Magnetic core memory USB drive transfers files in sneakernet first — text and image files get moved between PCs via hugely constrained archaic memory tech

A dinner plate-sized magnetic core memory homebrew USB device has been used to transfer a text file from one PC to another for the first time.

MSI brings DDR4 back to gaming laptops amidst DRAM crisis — Katana 15 HX C14 available with up to Core i9-14900HX and RTX 5070

With 32GB DDR4 SO-DIMM memory kits costing roughly half as much as comparable DDR5 kits, MSI’s new Katana 15 HX C14 could help reduce the impact of soaring memory prices.

DLSS 5 has already been ported to work on RTX 4000 Series graphics cards — incompatible CUDA instructions get patched to work on previous-gen hardware

One modder has reverse-engineered DLSS 5 to function on RTX 4000 series Ada Lovelace-based GPUs, porting incompatible CUDA instructions within the Neural Rendering DLL, enabling them to be read on previous-gen hardware.