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A gaming PC with good specs simply costs more than it should, particularly those with lots of RAM and VRAM, but there are relative bargains to be had, and in this market, we'll take any savings we can find. This $2,430 Skytech gaming PC from Walmart has genuinely high-end specs, including an RTX 5070 Ti, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, and 32GB of DDR5-6000.

Despite Intel's shocking stock performance and forecasted worries about a downturn in the PC market, since the release of its latest earnings report, there are some slivers of good news to be found in the transcript. Those slivers center on Nova Lake, and the good news is that Intel seems pretty confident in its upcoming chips and has officially confirmed that the chips will use its latest 18A-P node for at least part of its multi-chip design.

TweakTown Rating: 86% Laptop Acer Predator Nitro 16S AI Processor AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 Integrated Graphics Radeon 860M Graphics GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop 8GB Memory 32GB DDR5-5600 Display 16-inch WQXGA 2560 x 1600, 180Hz Our Verdict For mainstream gaming performance and productivity, the Acer Predator Nitro 16S AI gaming laptop excels in this Ryzen AI 7 350 and GeForce RTX 5060 configuration. It's backed up by a premium build and vibrant display for one of the more affordable options out there.

Intel's stock fell as much as 28% after weak guidance in its latest earnings report. Although it delivered better-than-expected Q3 results, the bleak outlook and weak earnings-per-share guidance led investors to dump the stock. The 25% drop in pre-market trading is one of Intel's worst-ever days since the company went public in 1974.

The next few months will be massive for gaming. GTA6 and WoW: Forever are a matter of days away. As a result, there will be plenty of bums on lounges and bean bags over the winter. Enjoyable gaming requires a good screen, and LG C6 series OLED TVs are among the best for gaming and watching movies. Right now, the 65-inch LG C6 OLED evo AI TV is $1,399 on Amazon; that's the lowest it's ever been. Bear in mind, its original launch price was $2,699, so that's a heck of a saving.

System76 has unveiled a redesigned Thelio Prime, a compact Linux PC powered by Ryzen 9000-series processors, with dedicated AMD and NVIDIA GPU options. Packed into an 11-liter chassis, the system is scheduled to launch on November 18, 2026, starting at $1,599 in the US.

NVIDIA has released a hotfix driver that fixes several major issues found in the latest 621.01 WHQL NVIDIA driver that generated a load of user complaints right after the driver's release. Hotfix driver 621.12 fixes four major issues, including black screens and video playback freezing on RTX 50 series and RTX Spark GPUs that were introduced with the 621.01 driver update.

The World of Warcraft Forever beta was a huge hit for Blizzard, amassing more players than any other test for the series. A flying mount crosses a snowy World of Warcraft landscape; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the Forever beta drew more players than any previous test in the franchise. WoW Forever has gone down in history as the largest-ever beta for the Warcraft franchise. That's according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who noted Forever's success in the latest Q1'27 earnings call.

GPD has confirmed that its upcoming Win Mini Ultra will run Intel's Arc G3 Extreme processor, marking a clear shift away from the AMD chips used in current Win Mini models. The company teased the move in a Weibo post that shared a Handhelds United podcast episode and indicated an official launch is coming soon. The Arc G3 Extreme is Intel's dedicated Panther Lake handheld SoC.

Microsoft has released what it calls the biggest DirectX Raytracing update since the API debuted in 2018. The changes arrive in the DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.722 Preview, alongside the retail 1.620 release, and all target the cost of keeping ray-tracing data up to date in large, busy game worlds. Essentially, a GPU needs acceleration structures to trace rays. These structures organize a scene's geometry so the hardware can quickly determine what a ray hits.