ASUS today announced the shipment of the XA NB3I-E12 AI server, built on the NVIDIA HGX B300 platform. Delivering next-generation AI performance and reliability, XA NB3I-E12 gives enterprises and cloud-service providers (CSPs) early access to cutting-edge computing capabilities for the AI era. Accelerated by eight NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs and dual Intel Xeon 6 Scalable processors, ASUS XA NB3I-E12 is engineered for intensive AI workloads. With eight NVIDIA ConnectX-8 InfiniBand SuperNICs, five PCIe expansion slots, 32 DIMMs, 10 NVMe drives, and dual 10 Gb LAN, it transforms data into intelligence for real-world automation. The system is ideal for enterprises and CSPs running large language models (LLMs), research institutions and universities performing scientific computing, and the financial and automotive sectors focused on AI model training and inference.

KLEVV, the leading consumer memory and storage brand introduced by Essencore, proudly unveils a striking new colorway for its award-winning URBANE V RGB DDR5 Gaming/OC memory. The sleek new Jet Black Edition joins the popular Brilliant White, broadening the lineup and giving enthusiasts more freedom to personalize their setups without compromise.

The URBANE V RGB Gaming/OC series is designed with both style and function in mind, featuring a 2 mm-thick aluminium heatsink with refined, curved edges and precision linear grooves that ensure durability and efficient cooling. With a low-profile height of just 42.5 mm, the modules fit seamlessly into diverse builds while maintaining optimal thermal performance. A distinctive dual-beam RGB light guide delivers smooth, customizable illumination across 16 million colors, fully compatible with major motherboard lighting software. This proven design, recognized with the prestigious iF Design Award, is now available in an elegant Jet Black finish that complements today's modern gaming and creator setups.

Thermals don't take a winter break—that's why your PC cooling setup matters more than ever. Ocypus, a fast-emerging name in PC cooling, has made waves at trade shows over the past decade and is now widely available across the US and EU. TechPowerUp has teamed up with Ocypus for a pre-winter giveaway, open worldwide (wherever legal). It's your chance to score one of two standout Ocypus products—or both. The grand prize winner takes home an Ocypus Iota C70 case and Sigma Pro AIO CPU cooler, pictured below. The first runner-up gets the Sigma Pro, and the second runner-up scores the Iota C70 case.

The Ocypus Sigma Pro is the star attraction here, with its floating true-color display on top of its cuboidal pump-block that can be programmed to display just about anything. Ocypus bundles software that can display system monitoring info on this display. You can also program it with cool visualizations and game stats. The Iota C70 is a spacious, wide-format ATX mid-tower case with ample room for builds with high-end graphics cards and elaborate liquid coolers, such as the Sigma Pro. It comes with a pillarless front-left corner letting you revel on your creation. The Giveaway is open worldwide and runs until November 6th.

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ASRock introduced the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB Challenger Standard Edition graphics card. This custom-design RX 9060 XT 16 GB card is a variant of the RX 9060 XT 16 GB Challenger OC that comes with clock speeds slightly higher than AMD reference specs for the RX 9060 XT, but lower than those of the Challenger OC. The card ships with 2620 MHz Game clock compared to 2530 MHz AMD reference and 2700 MHz of the original Challenger OC card. The Boost frequency is trimmed, too, going up to 3230 MHz compared to 3130 MHz AMD reference and 3290 MHz of the Challenger OC. The memory is left untouched at 20 Gbps (GDDR6-effective).

The board design of the ASRock RX 9060 XT 16 GB Challenger Standard Edition is identical to that of the Challenger OC, with its tall, 2-slot, dual-fan cooling solution that uses an aluminium fin-stack heatsink. The card draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector. Display outputs include two DisplayPort 2.1a and one HDMI 2.1b. Based on the 4 nm "Navi 44" silicon and powered by the RDNA 4 graphics architecture, the Radeon RX 9060 XT features 2,048 stream processors, 32 RT accelerators, 64 AI accelerators, 128 TMUs, and 64 ROPs. The card's 16 GB of memory is spread across a 128-bit wide memory interface. The chip features a full-width PCI-Express 5.0 x16 host interface. ASRock has given the box-art of this card an explicit "Standard Edition" badge, it doesn't just lack the "OC Edition" badge.

QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading computing, networking and storage solution innovator, today launched the TVS-AIh1688ATX, an enterprise-grade AI NAS that integrates the latest Intel Core Ultra processors and Neural Processing Unit (NPU), delivering up to 36 TOPS of total AI performance. Designed for AI-powered image/video analytics, virtualization, multimedia processing, and large-scale backup, the TVS-AIh1688ATX offers 12 SATA HDD bays and 4 U.2 NVMe/SATA SSD slots, with support for High Availability (HA) architecture, Thunderbolt 5, and 100GbE network expansion—making it a powerful edge AI storage platform for future-ready enterprises.

"Businesses running AI and data-heavy workloads need more than speed—they need agile, scalable infrastructure," said Andy Chuang, Product Manager at QNAP. "With the TVS-AIh1688ATX, we deliver balanced compute, storage, and collaboration capabilities to help customers confidently manage data, computation, and teamwork as business challenges grow more complex."

Biwin, a memory and storage innovation world leader, has unveiled the Black Opal OC Lab Gold Edition DW100 RGB DDR5 192 GB Memory Kit (48 GB x4), designed to meet the rising demand for high-capacity, high-performance memory in AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and advanced computing applications. Engineered for the developers, researchers as well as PC enthusiasts, the DW100 combines massive memory capacity with ultra-low latency, delivering DDR5-6000 CL28-36-36-102 performance at 1.4 V. The kit is built to push memory performance to its limits by offering smooth overclocking and efficient scaling for data-intensive workloads.

Mr. Rajesh Khurana, Country Manager, Consumer Business, Biwin said, "The DW100 192 GB kit represents the result of relentless innovation from our OC Lab team. It is crafted for systems where memory bandwidth, stability and low latency are critical—whether training AI models, processing large datasets, or running multithreaded simulations." Biwin DW100 launches a new line of desktop memory featuring an unprecedented 192 GB (48 GB x4) capacity. With DDR5's enhanced data channels and higher speeds, users experience enhanced memory throughput and performance in apps such as generative AI, edge computing, and real-time analytics. The kit supports DDR5-6000 MT/s—tuned to overclocked AMD platforms' sweet spot—providing tight CL28 timings for ultra-low latency and optimized access to high-volume data.

SK hynix Inc. (or "the company", www.skhynix.com) announced today that it presented its next-generation NAND storage product strategy at the 2025 OCP (Open Compute Project) Global Summit, held in San Jose, California, from October 13 to 16. SK hynix said that, with the rapid growth of the AI inference market, the demand for NAND storage products capable of process large volume data quickly and efficiently is increasing dramatically. The company will fulfill customer needs by establishing the AIN (AI-NAND) Family lineup of solution products, optimized for the AI era.

Chun Sung Kim, Head of eSSD Product Development at SK hynix, presented the AIN Family during the Executive Session on the second day of the event. The AIN Family consists of NAND solution products optimized for performance, bandwidth, and density respectively which is designed to enhanced data processing speed and storage capacity.

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Intel today released the latest version of Arc GPU Graphics Drivers. Version 101.8247 Beta comes with optimization for "Arc Raiders," "Europa Universalis V," "Football Manager 26," "Jurassic World Evolution 3," "The Outer Worlds 2," and "Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2." Among the game specific issues fixed with this release are an application crash observed in "Satisfactory" when the Vulkan API renderer is used. Intel recommends using the DirectX 12 renderer. An application crash noticed with "World of Warcraft: Dragonflight" when the renderer is switched to DirectX 11 has been fixed. Grab the drivers from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.8247 Beta

China is developing a system firmware standard from the ground up that will, in the future, replace UEFI and old-school BIOS in digital devices, called UBIOS. The name "UBIOS" is straightforward—it simply means Unified Basic Input Output System, and incorporates all the hardware support advancements UEFI brought to computing. The idea behind UBIOS is to decouple with predominantly Western-developed firmware standards, particularly Western firmware-level security architectures and roots of trust. The UBIOS standard has been drafted by thirteen Chinese tech companies, including Huawei, Byosoft, and Kunlun Tech, with oversight from CESI (China Electronics Standardization Institute).

The UBIOS standard has awareness for all contemporary hardware standards, including chiplets and heterogeneous computing. It also supports all modern machine architectures, including x86 (and x86-64), Arm, RISC-V, and LoongArch (MIPS-compatible). The firmware will be incorporated by Chinese computing and ICT giants designing everything from servers to client PCs, consumer electronics, network infrastructure, automobiles, and IoT appliances. China's indigenous Linux distributions will incorporate support for UBIOS. It remains to be seen if the UBIOS standard is made open to foreign firmware vendors such as Insyde, AMI, and Award.

Noctua today celebrated its 20-year brand anniversary with a fresh, completely revamped website as well as the new NP-DM3 desk mat that commemorates key milestones in Noctua's history of innovation - from the first NH-U heatsinks and NF-S12 fans to landmark products like the NF-P12 or NH-D14 all the way to the latest G2 models. "Things have come a long way since we've launched our very first CPU coolers 20 years ago. When you look at them next to today's NH-D15 G2, it's obvious how the research, materials and manufacturing have evolved" says Roland Mossig (Noctua CEO).

"We're incredibly grateful that so many customers have turned out to share our passion for performance, quietness and quality. It's this shared passion that has enabled Noctua's evolution, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers for their continued trust." To celebrate its 20-year anniversary, Noctua is introducing the NP-DM3, a premium-grade desk mat with a distinctive timeline design that commemorates key milestones in the brand's history of innovation. The theme spans from the very first Noctua heatsink and fan all the way to the latest G2 series models. It also highlights some of the Austrian' brands most iconic models along the way, such as the NF-P12, NF-F12 or NH-D14; and it's guaranteed to bring back fond memories of your favorite Noctua products.

Leading provider of industrial PC solutions AAEON (Stock Code: 6579), has introduced the BOXER-6649-RAP, the company's first fanless embedded computer equipped with four independent full-speed PoE LAN ports. Available with a choice of 28 W 13th Generation Intel Core processors (formerly Raptor Lake), the BOXER-6649-RAP notably offers a 50% increase in DDR5 memory capacity over previous generations alongside a robust mechanical design for industrial deployment. AAEON has highlighted that the BOXER-6649-RAP is primarily targeted for use in the smart security, safety, and surveillance sectors, which is reflected in the system's I/O specifications. The BOXER-6649-RAP's four PoE LAN ports each offer 2.5GbE speed, and are joined by a fifth RJ-45 port, also offering 2.5GbE LAN. The system comes with two USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) ports, four USB 2.0, and both DB-9 and DB-15 ports for RS-232/422/485 and an 8-bit digital I/O, respectively.

For memory, the BOXER-6649-RAP can support up to 96 GB of DDR5 via two SODIMM slots, a substantial increase from the 64 GB provided by previous products from its Rugged Box PC series. AAEON has specified that the purpose of this is to help customers locally store large data models and run real-time AI inference without frame drops, particularly suitable for the product's target applications.

Almost nobody cares about third-party antivirus applications, much less pay for them, a surprising set of TechPowerUp Frontpage Poll results show. There was a time when you couldn't have a reliable PC experience without a solid third-party antivirus software, paying protection money each year for subscription to updates. Then Microsoft decided to significantly up the ante with endpoint security. It began with Windows Defender, a free antivirus that's part of Windows that you used if you had nothing else. Over the years, Microsoft hardened Windows with features such as Malware Removal Tool, Secure Boot, BitLocker, TPM-based root of trust, and Virtualization-based Security, which ran the whole user-space in a secure enclave, as a virtual machine, which couldn't let malware break its host. All these mean that endpoints are safer than ever, and this reflects in our poll results. Our poll had a total of 34,316 responses.

A comfortable majority of 60.5% voted for Windows Defender as their AV software of choice. A small but not insignificant percentage of 15.7% says that it has no antivirus software installed whatsoever, which is difficult if not impossible as Windows runs Defender in some limited form. A combined 24% of the responses say they use third-party AV software. The biggest choice is "Other," which includes brands not covered in the poll. A good share of these could include Kaspersky. 6.1% of the total responses say they use Bitdefender. This is followed by Avast at a surprisingly low 2.9% given that it has a free version; and an even more surprising 1% for AVG. Among the known paid-only applications, Bitdefender is followed by Norton at 1.9%, and McAfee at 0.7%.

Cooler Master today introduced the Hyper 212 3DHP, its first CPU air cooler to implement its proprietary 3D Heatpipe technology that the company showcased at the 2025 Computex in May. The cooler introduces a unique new heatpipe design. While most aluminium fin-stack tower-type coolers have their heatpipes designed such that they are bent in a U-shape, with their middle regions being part of the cooler's base that makes contact with the heat source, Cooler Master's 3D Heatpipe design involves a branch of the heatpipe right in the middle of the heatpipe that projects upward, through the middle region of the fin-stack. This design more uniformly spreads heat across the fin-stack, as heat from each heatpipe is spread both across the central and peripheral regions of each fin.

There are two variants of the Cooler Master Hyper 212 3DHP, the main variant with ARGB LED-illuminated fan, and the Hyper 212 3DHP Black, which comes with a black, non-illuminated fan. Besides lighting, both variants offer identical specs. The cooler measures 133 mm x 86 mm x 158 mm (WxDxH), the company didn't disclose weight. The cooler comes with two 3D heatpipes, which branch out to a total of six ends. The heatpipes make contact with the CPU over a copper base. The included 120 mm fan turns at speeds of up to 2,050 RPM, pushing up to 63.1 CFM of airflow at 2.69 mm H₂O of static pressure, and a maximum noise output of 27 dBA. Unlike other coolers from Cooler Master in this category which come with 2-year warranties, the company is backing this cooler with a generous 5-year warranty as added confidence in the build quality of its 3D heatpipes. The company is pricing the Hyper 212 3DHP Black at $29.99, which is the same price as the current Hyper 212 Black.

Cooler Master, a global leader in PC components and tech lifestyle solutions, today announced worldwide availability of the V4 Alpha 3DHP Black CPU air cooler. As the newest standalone product under the company's Thermal Excellence campaign, V4 Alpha couples Cooler Master's patented 3DHP technology with a minimalist, single-tower form factor that fits effortlessly into mainstream and high-end builds.

"With the V4 Alpha 3DHP, we condensed our V-engine concept into a design that runs cooler, quieter, and cleaner than anything else in its class," said Matteo Stracciari, GM of Cooler Master. "It's proof that Thermal Excellence can fit any build—no compromises required."