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ACEMAGIC Launches Retro X5 Mini That Looks Like Nintendo NES, But Has A Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Inside

15 February 2026 at 19:46

Two retro gaming consoles are shown against a red background, featuring the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Acemagik

You don’t come across NES-inspired mini PCs very often, and ACEMAGIC’s new model stands out as one of the closest to the classic Nintendo NES console in appearance. ACEMAGIC Brings Nintendo NES Vibes With Its Retro X5 Mini PC, Powered By AMD Strix Point Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 PC at $940 Popular mini PC maker, ACEMAGIC, has officially launched its newest mini PC called Retro X5 in China, bringing back the classic Nintendo Entertainment System console vibes. The company introduced two new Retro mini PCs last month, featuring a design that resembles retro Nintendo consoles. These are the Retro […]

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Intel Nova Lake Tile Die Size Is Reportedly Under 100 mm2; bLLC Variant To Measure Nearly 153 mm2

15 February 2026 at 19:16

Intel Nova Lake Compute Tile Die Sizes Revealed: 8+16 at 110mmΒ² & bLLC Variant at 150mmΒ² 1

The previous rumors about Intel's upcoming Nova Lake tile die are mostly correct, and we are seeing die sizes of nearly 100 mmΒ² for these chips. Intel Nova Lake Tile Die Reportedly Measures 14.8 mm x 6.6 mm, Bringing Nearly 17% Reduction in Size Over Arrow Lake A new leak from prominent leakerΒ Golden Pig UpgradeΒ (viaΒ @9550pro) indicates that previous estimates of Intel Nova Lake tile die size are almost correct. We recently reported that the Intel Nova Lake tile die size will be nearly 110 mm2Β using TSMC's N2 process node, whileΒ variants with bLLC will measure around 150+ mm2. The leaker reports […]

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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Reportedly Dies At Less Than 10% Usage On ASUS X870 Motherboard

14 February 2026 at 20:01

A close-up of an Arctic cooler installed on a motherboard labeled 'TUF Gaming X670E,' next to the underside of a processor

Another case of CPU failure, but the user reports minimal CPU usage when it died. This time, it was the ASUS motherboard. Redditor Confirms Dead Ryzen 7 9800X3D on ASUS TUF Gaming X870-Plus After Leaving His System On Overnight With Nominal Load Ryzen 7 9800X3D death reports aren't uncommon, and they continuously surface on Reddit. Keep in mind that despite so many reports surfacing online, the RMA rates for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D are nearly on par with other Ryzen 9000 CPUs if we go by the data from Mindfactory. Still, it's important to examine every case of CPU failure […]

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Intel Officially Rolls Out XeSS 3 Multi-Frame Generation For Arc Alchemist And Battlemage GPUs

14 February 2026 at 15:37

Intel XeSS 3 MFG "Multi-Frame Gen" With Up To 4x Mode Unveiled, Coming To All Arc GPUs With XMX Cores, XeSS 2 Games Supported & Further Perf/Efficiency Optimizations For Arc

All the Arc GPUs have officially received support for Intel's latest Multi-Frame Generation with the new driver update. Intel Rolls Out Graphics Driver 8509, Supporting XeSS 3 Multi-Frame Generation on Intel Arc Alchemist and Battlemage dGPUs and iGPUs Intel's latest XeSS 3 Multi-Frame Generation, which was initially launched for Panther Lake processors/iGPUs, has now been rolled out for previous-gen GPUs as well. As promised recently, Intel has today launched its latest Arc Graphics driver for Windows version 32.0.101.8509, which brings support for XeSS 3 Multi-Frame Generation for both Alchemist and Battlemage families. As listed in the release notes, the XeSS […]

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Acer Announces A Price Hike For Its Products, Starting February 20

14 February 2026 at 15:21

Acer Predator Orion 7000 Gaming

Due to rising costs of memory and SSDs, Acer has also announced a price hike for its products. Acer Japan Says it Will Revise PC Product Prices, Starting February 20, 2026, as Memory and SSD Costs Keep Rising The PC hardware prices aren't ready to stabilize, and we are seeing major hardware manufacturers announcing price revisions almost every month. Recently, it was Maingear and Framework that announced price hikes a couple of times. ASUS also announced price hikes due to higher memory and SSD costs, and now it's Acer's turn, which has also announced a price revision. Acer Predator Gaming […]

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