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RTX Spark handhelds? Not any time quickly, by the sounds of it
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was requested concerning the potential of an RTX Spark SoC crammed into a gaming handheld, and had this to say:
“If somebody wants to do it, you know, we’ll work with them on it. But right now we’re really focused on doing something that is just such a big deal, reinventing the PC after 40 years.”
So, nothing in the works then, by the sounds of it. At least from Nvidia’s perspective. Hey, we can still dream, right?
Does this 3000 W PSU for gaming PCs make any sense?
Excess is certainly one of the running themes of Computex, and this year’s show has been no exception. In among the offerings exists this Asus ROG Thor 3000 W Titanium III Edition 20, and our Nick’s really not sure about it.
It’s impressive, of course. And it’s even got an OLED display that can be magnetically attached to the PSU or your PC’s case with an extension cable. But four 12V-2×6 power sockets? Asus knows that multiple graphics cards for gaming isn’t really a thing anymore, right?
Anyway, it’s part of Asus’ ROG anniversary offerings, so it’s more of a show piece than a product you’re likely to go running out and buy. We salute the tech, and the impressive name. As for the practicality of such a mega PSU under the ROG gaming brand? Eh, pass.
The Logitech SuperStrike’s switches have some new competition in town
However, our Dave has got his hands on Keychron’s new optical/Hall effect models—and they look to be addressing some of the feedback around Logitech’s offerings.
One sort of change is clicky, the opposite has a tactile bump, and one other is totally linear. “We combine this with a haptic engine—you know, just a vibrator—inside the mouse, then it’s just same trick,” says Keychron CEO Nick Xu.
The switches must be showing in Keychron mice very quickly. Hey, competitors is an efficient factor, proper? For us shoppers, on the very least.
Is it a briefcase? Is it an air-con unit? No, it is a PC case. We’re fairly positive, anyway.
For the extra utilitarian-minded, how about this head-scratcher of a PC case? It’s called the Tryx Vas, it’s at Computex, and we don’t know much about it.
We sort of want one, though. On that we can all agree.
All hail the Hello Kitty PC
In among all the edgy RGB-lit cases of Computex 2026, it’s nice to see something refreshing. Like these DarkFlash Sanrio offerings, with loveable mascots PomPomPurin, Kuromi, Cinnamoroll, and Hello Kitty emblazoned on the outsides.
I hope I got all that right, as I know nothing of such whimsy. I’m far too miserable to run this sort of case design, but those of you with a taste for the colourful and the cute will hopefully get a kick out of it.
Back to my edgelord cave. It’s dark in here, and I’m brooding. No mum, I don’t want any dinner. Shut the door on the way out, would you?
The skinniest of keebs
Cool. Shove a review sample through my letterbox, would you?
Something genuinely affordable at Computex? Mercy me.
Sure, it’s not the flashiest of components (although there is an RGB-lit version), but a good CPU cooler can make a massive difference to the performance of your PC. I personally like an all-black design, and this one has rugged vibes that I genuinely dig. Well played, Arctic. Well played indeed.
MSI has a next-gen GPU cooler concept on display, and it’s got lots of esoteric specs
Those of you hoping for next-gen graphics cards at this year’s show will have to make do with this next-gen graphics card cooler instead. But wait, MSI’s concept is actually pretty intriguing!
Metal fan blades? Rifled heatpipes? Diamond-composite thermal pads? Yep, the future of GPU cooling sure has some unusual hardware, if this example is anything to go by.
The RTX Spark is ‘100% awesome at everything everybody expects the PC to do,’ according to Jensen
Our Dave has attended a Q&A session with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and the leather-jacketed one was keen to talk up the benefits of the new RTX Spark SoC. Check out the story here, and also this photo of yet another impressive piece of outerwear:
The Corsair Nightsword v2 Wireless has a Stream Deck button, which I definitely won’t fat finger in the heat of battle
Our James is a big fan of his Stream Deck, which means he’s also very interested in the newly-announced Corsair Nightsword v2 Wireless. It’s got a dedicated button that brings up a Stream Deck overlay menu with all sorts of control options.
Me? I know I’d accidentally press it at a crucial moment. Still, we’ve seen gaming mice with touchscreens on the side, and that’s a much worse idea. This one? The jury is out, but it’s an intriguing rodent at the very least.
Heyo, it’s the ‘world’s first holographic liquid cooler’
It wouldn’t be a tech show these days without many, many screens attached to coolers, but Tryx has gone one better this year and made one with a hologram. Well, something with a “a slight holographic appearance to it” says our Jacob, as he’s been standing in front of it squinting.
It’s best viewed straight on, apparently. Still, is this a glimpse of our future? We’ve had traditional screens inside our PCs, but what about hologram effects? Asus seemed to think so at CES earlier this year, too…
MSI is finally ready to release its mega Maestro 900R chassis, but you’d better get saving now
I’ve stood in front of this MSI mega case at CES earlier this year, and can confirm it’s very impressive. The company now says it’ll be releasing in Q3 of this year, and it’ll also be… rather expensive. As if we thought anything otherwise.
To be fair, it’s the sort of case you’d buy for a money-no-object mega rig, although our Dave has spotted the odd design detail that has given him pause. Still, $699? Holy moly. One for the well-heeled ultra enthusiasts, it seems.
Gigabyte’s new mobo ‘combines space-tech and data center-grade design through rocket thruster-grade thermal materials.’ Gosh.
I’ve got a penchant for the overbuilt, and Gigabyte’s X870E Aorus Infinity Next motherboard looks to be just that. According to the press release, it’s got “flagship engineering” that “combines space-tech and data center-grade design through rocket thruster-grade thermal materials and advanced 3D metal printing technology.”
It’s also got 64 power phases, which seems a touch… excessive? Still, as a celebration of the company’s 40th anniversary, it’s certainly a pretty thing. I’ve suddenly made this shallow, haven’t I?
Noctua’s pumpless liquid cooler seems to be coming on leaps and bounds
Every time I see an iteration of Noctua’s pumpless thermosiphon liquid cooler, I have to think long and hard about how heat works and how badly my science education failed me.
The good news, though, is that our Jacob has been chatting to the good folks at the Noctua booth, and its latest prototype can now apparently cool a Ryzen 9 9950X3D about as well as a traditional AIO.
Check out the article linked above for the full deets, and join me in being thoroughly impressed. Who needs pumps, anyway?
Want a spinning gaming chair keycap? Of course you do
Asus really seems to be going all-out for its ROG 20th anniversary celebrations. Beyond the mega RTX 5090 and the gold-festooned mouse below, it’s also announced some of the most peculiar keycaps we’ve ever seen as part of a mystery box package.
Being mystery boxes, I suppose there’s no guarantee you’ll get the keycaps themselves, which is a shame. As bizarre as the designs are, I’d love a set for sheer curiosity value. Especially as one of them is a spinning gaming chair.
I reckon the collectible value is pretty high for one of those, don’t you? Anyway, it might be the most unusual Computex 2026 release I’ve seen to date, although watch this space. I get the feeling today’s going to be a weird one.
A golden mouse of significant heft
Asus has festooned one of its gaming mice with “authentic 24K gold-plated detailing” as part of the ROG brand’s 20th anniversary celebrations, so we’d better add it to the growing list of PC products coated in the shiny stuff.
The ROG Harpe II Extreme Edition 20 weighs 82 g, has an 8,000 Hz polling rate and a 65K DPI sensor, and is rumoured to cost $260. Hey, I don’t mind a heavier gaming mouse—and the specs sheet is pretty impressive. It’s a bit of a looker, too. Anyone got any spare change?
This Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 is an absolute chungus
It wouldn’t be Computex with some seriously over-sized graphics cards, and Asus has outdone itself already this year. The Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Edition 20 looks like an absolute cinderblock of a GPU, and you know what? I’m into it.
Not only is this graphics card absolutely massive, but it’s got an AMOLED display wrapped around the back corner to… well, do whatever screens do inside your PC. Look pretty, mostly.
Ah, it’s not a graphics card for the likes of me, I know. Still, a hardware writer can dream, can’t they?
In other Nvidia news, DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction looks pretty sweet actually
Amid all the hubbub surrounding the Nvidia RTX Spark, you may have missed the announcement of DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction. No longer will your rays be reconstructed by a CNN model, as an update will bring a 2nd generation transformer model to the party in August—bringing it in parity with DLSS 4.5 itself.
What that means in practice, according to Nvidia, is much better denoising and far superior image quality. The new model processes 20% more parameters while “maintaining similar performance” to the previous model, apparently.
It’s additionally acquired higher spatial consciousness, and makes use of movement knowledge and sport engine pixel sampling “more intelligently” to create a greater visible outcome than earlier variations, so says the press release.
I’ve typically restricted ray tracing choices in supported video games as a result of the noisy lighting/temporal shifting has been a distraction, so any enhancements on this regard are most welcome. I do know it is not the largest Nvidia information of the present thus far, but it surely’s value a glance should you’re planning on pushing your video games to their most within the close to future.
Our Dave has been chatting to Intel’s Tom Peterson about latency, body era, and the way forward for the tech in relation to Intel’s G3 handheld chips. It’s a brilliant attention-grabbing learn, so I’d extremely advise you to take a look at the article proper right here:
Extrapolation is the future of frame generation without the latency hit… and it’s not far off
As a teaser, though, allow me to quote from Peterson:
“So the first frame has just been sitting around waiting for this entire process to happen, and now we’re ready to show you four frames. So that’s where the latency you feel is coming from.
“With extrapolation, we don’t do that. With extrapolation, we get the first frame and we show it to you, and then instead of waiting for the second frame, we’re using AI to predict where we think you’re going to be.”
Coming soon? Perhaps. Even more controversial than current frame gen tech? Also perhaps. Still, it’s certainly piqued my interest.
Booo, no hairy fan—but this thermal pad has some seriously cool tech
All of us on the PC Gamer hardware team were left scratching our heads last week, after Noctua teased an image that looked suspiciously like it was launching a hairy fan.
But alas, it turns out it’s just the NT-CP1 AM5/4 carbon nanotube CPU cooling pad. Actually, what am I talking about, that’s pretty freaking sweet. And get this—Noctua and Carbice (the former is exclusively distributing the latter’s thermal pad offerings) say it actually improves in thermal performance as time goes on.
“While thermal pastes and most other thermal pads gradually lose performance over time due to pump-out, delamination, cracking, and other degradation, the performance of Carbice pads continues to improve over hundreds and thousands of thermal cycles,” says the press release.
Awesome. I imply, not as superior as a brushy fan in your PC, however nonetheless. Anything carbon nanotube-based will get prompt cool factors. See what I did there?
The Ryzen 7 7700X3D appears to be like like my kinda gaming processor, as AM5 sticks round for the lengthy haul
AMD’s current-gen CPU socket appears to be like to be sticking with us for a while to return, as the corporate has extended its AM5 platform commitment until 2029. As Zen 6 processors are expected to appear either later this year or at some point in 2027, it’s possible that even Zen 7 chips (if naming schemes hold) will be supported by the current socket.
Speaking of new chips, the red team has also announced a new CPU offering: the $329, AM5-based Ryzen 7 7700X3D. The launch comes alongside the re-release of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D as part of AM4’s 10-year anniversary celebrations.
I run a regular Ryzen 7 7700X, and I’ve often wished it had a dose of 3D V-Cache for some extra gaming performance. Not that it’s slow, mind, but some extra stacked cache can be pretty magic stuff for gaming. I’ll be putting my hand firmly up to test one of those, don’t you worry.
AMD has also announced an upcoming upgrade to its EXPO memory overclocking system, EXPO ULL. That’s EXPO Ultra Low Latency to give it its full title, which the company claims can delivery an “additional 4% FPS (on avg) vs non-ULL EXPO memory.”
Which, as our Nick points out in the article above, is probably pretty resolution and graphics settings specific, as DRAM speed isn’t usually the biggest bottleneck in gaming systems. Hey, upgrades are upgrades—and AM5 looks to be in it for the long haul.
Hey look, an AMD graphics card
While proper next-gen graphics cards are a ways off yet, there’s still some new GPU news in the form of the RX 9070 GRE. The previously-China-only card will now be available to the rest of the world with an MSRP of $549. That’s the same original price as the RX 9070, but graphics card pricing being what it is, it’s soared ever higher since launch.
The RX 9070 GRE has 48 compute units, as opposed to the 56 in the RX 9070 proper, and slightly lower ray accelerator and AI accelerator counts, too. Still, it looks beefy enough to supply a good whack of gaming grunt for a reasonably affordable sum.
Will the RX 9070 GRE show to be a superb worth proposition in a crowded graphics card market stuffed with inflated costs? Time to interrupt out the check rig, I suppose. Watch this house.
And now for one thing utterly completely different…
Would you want a holographic dragon in an over-sized check tube mounted to the entrance of your gaming PC?
No, I’m unsure both. But MSI has unveiled the MEG Vision X2 AI with a “first-of-it’s kind AI Holostage”, featuring the company’s mascot, Lucky the dragon, as an AI avatar.
Yep, it’s not subtle. Still, the press release suggests that a choice of digital companions will be available in future, and the “LuckyClaw” avatar will be available to respond to natural speech commands to help you tune your rig.
I’m really not sure how to feel about AI cyber prisons attached to the front of our machines (or on our desks), but perhaps we’re looking at the future. Or, an experiment that makes for a booth-friendly showcase of MSI’s burgeoning AI tech.
Still, Computex is known for wild PC case designs, and this one’s certainly that.
Intel Arc G-Series Panther Lake handheld chips
Let’s not forget we had one of the biggest announcements of this year’s show… err, last week. Well, sort of. Intel’s Arc G-Series chips for handheld gaming PCs have been long teased, but the blue team took the official wraps off well in advance of the show. Hey, getting in first counts for something, I guess?
Our Dave has already got his hands on the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+, one of the first handhelds to use the G3 Extreme, and I think it’s fair to say he’s rather impressed:
“The device in my hands feels like the standard all new handheld gaming PCs will be judged by“
Dave loves a handheld and he’s tested the very best around, so that headline’s got me all sorts of curious to test one for myself. The bad news? The price has been mooted as around $1,500.
Sigh. I loved my time with the previous MSI Claw 8 AI+ A2VM, and this new model should make mincemeat of its impressive-for-the-time performance figures. A grand and a half, though? That’s some serious moolah, and the same sort of money as some mid-range gaming laptop deals. We thought the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X was expensive, but this? It’s proper money, so it’d better be proper good.
Still, if those first impressions hold up, we could be looking at the new king of our best handheld gaming PC guide. That being said, it looks like there’ll be plenty of handhelds featuring the chip at this year’s show, so the MSI beastie has some competition straight out the gate. Stay tuned here to see what we make of the rest, as the show goes on.
Nvidia RTX Spark
The biggest news so far is Nvidia’s announcement of the RTX Spark SoC, which makes use of an Arm-based N1X “superchip” with up to 20 Grace CPU cores and 6188 RTX Blackwell GPU cores.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage to hold up two RTX Spark-equipped laptops running games, as the GPU core count is equivalent to an RTX 5070. In terms of gaming performance, though, it might be better to think of it as “RTX 5070-like”, as emulation may well take its toll on the frame rate depending on the game/implementation.
We’ll have to play with one ourselves to find out, of course, but the new SoC won’t just be for laptops. There are also said to be Spark-equipped mini PCs and desktops on the way, which marks something of a brave new frontier for Nvidia in the hardware space.
Still, it’s the laptop potential that really has us excited here at PC Gamer Towers. Particularly if Nvidia’s claims of gaming battery life “better than anything you’ve seen before on RTX laptops” hold up in practice.
Many questions remain, though. For a start, these systems can support up to 128 GB of RAM, which will be mighty expensive in these RAMpocalypse-influenced times. Will we see reasonably-priced 16 GB or 32 GB offerings? And will the emulation prove to be an issue, or will Nvidia’s technical know-how smooth over some of the rougher Arm-based waters, especially as it’s working with devs to create Arm-native games?
It’s all still to play for. Still, a brand new Nvidia hardware release, with actual gaming potential rather than pure AI chops? Yep, you should pay attention to this one very closely—especially as it gives us a better idea of when to expect next-gen RTX GPUs.
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