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- Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Prices Reach $2,000 Amid Scarce Stock
Tom’s Hardware reports that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080’s lowest cited in-stock price at a reputable online seller reached $1,999 through Best Buy, while other listings reached $2,299.99 and $2,983.23. Availability was limited, with most online stock offered by third-party sellers and local pickup at Best Buy restricted to one or two units. The article also links AI-driven prioritization of high-margin data-center products to reduced attention and memory allocation for consumer GPUs.
Tom’s Hardware · 🔥 0 - GIGABYTE lists WRX90 AI TOP workstation motherboard
IT之家 reports that GIGABYTE has listed the WRX90 AI TOP workstation motherboard on its official website. The Socket sTR5, E-ATX board supports eight-channel DDR5 RDIMM with up to 2TB of memory, six PCIe Gen5 x16 slots, one PCIe Gen5 x8 slot, and two MCIO 8i connectors. It also includes three M.2 2280 PCIe slots, four SATA III ports, two USB4 ports, two 10GbE RJ45 ports, and an ASPEED AST2600 BMC SoC with IPMI remote management.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - Video shows RTX 5090 game cards converted into server AI accelerators
Video footage shared by HKEPC appears to show a Chinese workshop removing GB202 GPUs and GDDR7 memory from retail GeForce RTX 5090 cards and transferring them to custom dual-slot blower-cooled boards for servers. The modified cards are reportedly tested before packaging, while the visible hardware includes PNY, Gigabyte, ASUS and NVIDIA Founders Edition models. Reports claiming thousands of daily conversions, 64GB or 96GB configurations, and effects on global supply remain unverified.
cnBeta · 🔥 0 - Nvidia DGX Spark 64GB Arrives Oct. 23 at $4,999
Nvidia’s new 64GB DGX Spark arrives Oct. 23 with a starting price of $4,999 and is available through manufacturing partners Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, and MSI. It retains the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, DGX OS, and Nvidia’s AI software ecosystem, including Ollama, vLLM, PyTorch with CUDA, Nemotron models, and the Nvidia Agent Toolkit. Nvidia says the system supports models with up to 100 billion parameters, but TechRepublic notes that this vendor claim is not a guarantee for every model or workload. The 64GB configuration has not been independently benchmarked for the report, and its reduced memory may constrain model size, context length, and concurrent workloads. Buyers should confirm final configuration and regional pricing with the manufacturer.
TechRepublic · 🔥 0 - RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti prices rise in China amid tighter GDDR7 supply
NVIDIA partners and retailers in China raised prices for the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB, according to Wccftech. Board Channels reported that the RTX 5080 16 GB moved from roughly 12,700–13,500 RMB to 14,500–15,000 RMB, while the RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB rose from about 9,000–9,150 RMB to 9,650–9,850 RMB. Wccftech attributed the increases to tighter GDDR7 supply as memory manufacturers prioritize higher-margin HBM for AI markets.
Wccftech · 🔥 0 - AI datacenter demand revives DDR4 and old PC platforms as memory prices climb
Ifanr reports that as AI datacenters absorb memory capacity, consumer PCs are moving backwards: Gigabyte announced on October 9 that existing B760 and H610 motherboards can support Intel's upcoming LGA1700 processors, expected in early 2027, via BIOS updates, with DDR4 still on the compatibility list, while Intel has repeatedly said DDR4-supporting Raptor Lake remains a core strategy with stable supply for years. AMD launched a 10th-anniversary Ryzen 7 5800X3D at Computex 2026 at a $349 suggested price (2,599 yuan in China), with board makers adding new B550X series boards, and the 2021-era RTX 3060 12GB returned to retail this summer at about $339.99, rising to $460–500 at most retailers by late August. IDC data cited by the outlet put Q3 2026 global PC shipments below 63 million units, down 20.1% year over year and 9.1% quarter over quarter; Omdia says DRAM and SSDs now approach 40% of mainstream PC bill-of-materials costs, and TrendForce expects Q4 conventional DRAM contract prices up another 10%–15% and NAND Flash up 15%–20%.
爱范儿 · 🔥 0 - AI memory demand squeezes PC buyers as Q3 shipments fall 20%
AI-server demand for HBM and server DRAM is crowding out consumer memory capacity: Omdia estimates memory and SSDs have climbed from roughly 15% of PC bill-of-materials cost to nearly 40%, while IDC preliminary data put Q3 2026 global PC shipments down 20.1% year over year (78.5M to 62.7M units) and Omdia measured a 21.2% decline in desktops, notebooks and workstations, with Macs also down. TrendForce calculates CPU, DRAM and SSD now account for about 68% of the BOM in a $900 mainstream laptop; Gigabyte responded on Oct. 9 by saying all its B760 and H610 boards, DDR4 included, will support new Intel LGA1700 processors expected in early 2027 via BIOS update, after adding AM4 boards alongside the Ryzen 7 5800X3D relaunch in August. On the software side, the open-source Strata project, with about 19,500 GitHub stars, reports running the 125B-parameter Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at roughly 94 tokens/s under Q2_0 quantization on a PC with an RTX 5070 (12GB VRAM), Ryzen 5 7600 and 64GB of system RAM, or about 53 tokens/s on IQ3_S.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - Apollo Power buys 1GWh of Tesla Megapack storage for AI data centres
Taiwan's Apollo Power signed a contract with Tesla Energy Taiwan for roughly 1GWh of large-scale energy storage — 260 Tesla Megapack units — and launched an "AIDC and enterprise resilient grid" partnership with Phison Electronics, Gigabyte and Shihlin Electric. Apollo Power chairman Wang Hui-min said power, not compute, is often the binding constraint once firms have secured GPUs and servers, and noted that NVIDIA's DSX Ready qualification programme launched in September included battery energy storage systems, with Tesla among the first qualified BESS solutions. Tesla Energy Taiwan general manager Sun Hsiao-han said Tesla Energy has deployed more than 50GWh of storage globally, growing 2–3GWh per quarter, and that Megapack's Grid-Forming technology can supply virtual inertia and voltage support within milliseconds, cutting high-frequency grid oscillation by about 70% in a GPU-load case at Phison's plant.
科技新报 · 🔥 0 - Intel reportedly to launch new CPUs on 5-year-old LGA1700 socket for cheaper DDR4
Gigabyte says new Intel processors will arrive on the five-year-old LGA1700 socket in early 2027, and has updated BIOS support across its entire B760 and H610 lineups. That socket accepts DDR4 as well as DDR5, and DDR4 is far cheaper to fill a machine with — notable as AI demand pushes memory prices to records. Intel has not confirmed the chips; executive Robert Hallock has said LGA1700 is "still a good socket" and described a "sudden inrush of demand" for older parts.
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