Pc Gaming Archive

On May 31th, Lock Books will release Overclocked: An Archive of Graphics Card Box Art, designed to take you back when “manufacturers fought for dominance with the most amped-up packaging imaginable.” (We remember it well.) The $27 book features over 300 different boxes and 50 classic ads, all curated after “hours of searching through dead Google links, eBay listings and defunct forums.”

Fry’s is gone, CompUSA is gone, Radio Shack is a zombie, but Micro Center is finally coming back. On May 30th, the store will host its grand opening at 5201 Stevens Creek Blvd in Santa Clara — and it tells me it’s bringing 4,000 GPUs to mark the occasion! (It might not put them all on sale right away.)

The RX 9070 and 9070 XT came with AMD’s new AI-assisted brand of upscaling, FSR4, right out of the gate — this summer, they’ll also get a new “FSR Redstone” with three extra machine learning techniques. Like Nvidia’s DLSS, Redstone will add Neural Radiance Caching, Ray Regeneration, and a new Frame Generation model that uses both temporal and spatial data to generate fake frames.

The updated Rival 3 Gen 2 comes in black and white finishes, available either wired or wireless, and more exciting purple and blue versions exclusive to the wireless model. The big tech upgrade is click latency — now just 1.35ms wired, and 1.9ms wireless — but there’s a $5 price bump to go with it.

I’m already dying to get my hands on the Y70 Touch Infinite, but the bubbly X50 and X50 Air look just as fun. The compact mid-tower case made its debut at Computex 2025, and it comes with plenty of mesh for more airflow and enough room for up to 10 fans.

In a 22-minute video, Gamers Nexus talks about “Nvidia’s last several months of pressure to talk about DLSS more frequently in reviews, plus [Multi Frame Generation] 4X pressure from the company” and how “Nvidia has repeatedly made comments to GN that interviews, technical discussion, and access to engineers unrelated to MFG 4X and DLSS are made possible by talking about MFG 4X and DLSS.”