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NVIDIA today announced major updates to its GeForce NOW cloud gaming platform that turns practically any screen with a game controller into a powerful gaming platform with graphics akin to PCs. The company brought NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 performance tier to GeForce NOW in 2025, priced at $19.99 a month to be able to play on any device, at resolutions of up to 5K @ 120 FPS or 1080p @ 360 FPS, with NVIDIA Reflex low latency, and Cinematic quality streaming, with a game library spanning over 4,000. In 2026, NVIDIA is announcing a handful interesting updates.

Perhaps the biggest GeForce NOW update today is support for exotic game controller types, such as slight control, racing wheels, and newer kinds of simulator hardware. Your client device should be able to recognize the controller and let GeForce NOW use it, so you can use the controller for playing titles such as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, etc. Next up, NVIDIA announced the addition of more AAA games to GeForce NOW, including Resident Evil Reqium, 007 First Light, Crimson Desert, and Active Matter.
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NVIDIA today announced updated G-SYNC Pulsar display standard for fast-paced competitive e-sports gaming. The standard builds on NVIDIA's proven G-SYNC variable refresh-rate technology that ensures that the display and GPU are in perfect sync with output framerates and display refresh-rates, to eliminate screen tearing and stuttering. The new G-SYNC Pulsar spec calls for a standardized 27-inch QHD (2560 x 1440 pixels) gaming display with refresh rate of 360 Hz on the display's side, and the capability of over 1000 Hz perceived motion clarity that works at the game rendering level to eliminate motion blur. In the example shown below, G-SYNC Pulsar in "Counter Strike 2" is shown improving effective motion clarity by 4 times.

The other new standard being introduced today is Ambient Adaptive Technology. Similar to your smartphone, which uses its front-camera to gauge ambient lighting conditions to dynamically adjust display and color temperature, this feature relies on an optical sensor on the display to analyze ambient lighting conditions, and respond to broad daylight with 100% brightness, cooler white colors (higher color temperatures); and nighttime with 36% brightness, and warmer colors (lower color temps). At CES, popular gaming monitor manufacturers are announcing their G-SYNC Pulsar capable monitors, which include Acer Predator XB273U F5, AOC AGON Pro AG276QSG2, ASUS ROG Strix Pulsar XG27AQNGV, and MSI MPG 272QRF X36. These displays will be available from tomorrow (January 7), with prices starting at $599.

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NVIDIA today announced the new DLSS 4.5 technology at its 2026 International CES media event, to improve gaming performance and image quality, bringing higher resolutions and refresh rates within reach of PC gamers. DLSS 4.5 is a major update over DLSS 4 that debuted in 2024 with the GeForce RTX 50-series "Blackwell" graphics cards. It is designed to bring games with performance-intensive path tracing effects to a broader audience, with the fastest RTX 50-series GPU models being able to play path-traced games at 4K Ultra HD with 240 Hz.

At the heart of the DLSS 4.5 update are two key announcements—2nd Generation Super Resolution Transformer, and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation. One of the defining features of DLSS 4 is its high-quality upscaler, which replaced convolutional neural network (CNN) based AI models with a newer Transformer-based model, resulting in a significant improvement in image quality. Now, at CES, NVIDIA announced that they have updated their algorithm with an even newer Transformer-based model that has been trained on a much larger dataset. This 2nd Gen Transformer was developed using five times the compute power that went into the first-gen DLSS 4 Transformer upscaler, and leverages the FP8 data format that's supported by the Tensor cores of GeForce RTX 40-series "Ada" and 50-series "Blackwell" GPUs. DLSS 4.5 is still supported on older 30-series "Ampere" and 20-series "Turing" GPUs, however these generations lack FP8 acceleration, so the performance uplift over native wouldn't be as significant as with newer GPUs.
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MSI has officially unveiled the specifications of its new AI-centric mini PC line-up that is being debuted at CES 2026. The new line-up offers something for everyone—as long as you're looking to run local LLMs or similar AI workloads—whether you're looking for a hyper-compact x86 system powered by AMD's RDNA 3.5, a more powerful NVIDIA RTX 5070, or something more exotic with NVIDIA's new Arm-based DGX Spark platform.

Perhaps the most interesting mini PC that MSI is showing off at CES is the EdgeXpert, which is targeted at AI developers and is built on NVIDIA's DGX Spark platform. In the EdgeXpert, which was announced earlier this year, that means 20 Arm CPU cores and an AI Blackwell GPU as well as NVIDIA's NVLink C2C tech, which claims to offer "five times the bandwidth of PCIe 5.0," for improved data transfer and sharing between the CPU and GPU. According to MSI, the EdgeXpert is capable of a petaFLOP of AI performance. It also features 128 GB of LPDDR5x unified system memory and a vapor chamber cooling system.
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ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) is proud to announce a collaboration with world-renowned game studio KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, as well as the launch of the ROG Flow Z13-KJP along with a new lineup of KJP peripherals. ROG and KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS are driven to create products and experiences tailored for gamers.

Cutting-edge gaming hardware meets visionary storytelling
At the heart of this collaboration is 'Ludens'—the belief that humans are not only thinkers, but also players and creators. The collaboration combines the spirit of the ROG motto For Those Who Dare with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS' vision From Sapiens to Ludens. Ludens are the ones who experiment, mod, create, and challenge what games—and gaming hardware—can be. By uniting cutting-edge ROG hardware with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS' visionary storytelling, this partnership is a tribute to that spirit: everything we build, every detail we design, is for gamers everywhere—For Ludens Who Dare.
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Unveiled at CES, HAVN is proud to announce the latest addition to its portfolio, the HAVN XR 1000 W Platinum A++ power supply unit. From industrial design to advanced power electronics, all united under one vision. Developed in collaboration with leading experts across the industry, the XR Series represents the culmination of collective expertise.

"The XR Series represents our vision for what a modern high-end PSU should be," said Roland Gschwender, HAVN Product Manager. "It's built for absolute stability, exceptionally silent operation and platinum efficiency, giving builders total confidence even in the most demanding systems." The acoustic and power performance of HAVN's first PSU was developed and refined through a combination of internal testing at the HAVN lab and independent evaluation, with insights used to continuously optimize the final design.
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At CES 2026, Cooler Master showed off its latest PC cases from the COSMOS and MasterFrame lines, along with a range of matching add-ons. The high-end COSMOS series now includes the new COSMOS Alpha case. It is built using a modular design, curved aluminium frame and tempered glass side panels. One of its standout features is a sliding motherboard tray, which allows the internal layout to be adjusted for cleaner airflow or liquid-cooling-focused builds. Cooler Master also includes a sliding, adjustable fan bracket that supports multiple fan sizes. COSMOS Alpha can house E-ATX and EEB motherboards in addition to ATX and microATX, graphics cards up to 400 mm long, and power supplies up to 240 mm. Cooling support includes up to 15 fans, with dual pre-installed 200 × 38 mm extra-thick fans, removable dust filters, and radiators up to 420 mm.

Cooler Master also expanded its open-frame MasterFrame lineup with the new MasterFrame 360 series, built around a 360-degree display concept. The series includes three variants: MasterFrame 360 Panorama, a sealed tempered-glass enclosure designed for full visibility and protection; MasterFrame 360 Stage Mirror, an open-frame design with a mirrored base to enhance visual depth; and MasterFrame 360 Stage LCD, which integrates a 15.6-inch display for custom visuals or use as a secondary screen.
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Today, on the opening day at CES, Neurable announced it's working with HP Inc.'s HyperX gaming brand to develop an industry-first gaming headset outfitted with neurotechnology. This strategic collaboration demonstrates how AI and neuroscience can work together to help players improve their focus and accuracy by interpreting brain activity in real time.

"We've always been about empowering power players with the best technology to play, and now with our strategic collaboration with Neurable, we look forward to giving more insight into how one's cognitive skills and focus impacts their gameplay to ultimately make them as competitive as possible," said Josephine Tan, Senior Vice President and Division President of Personal Systems Gaming Solutions, HP Inc.
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Today at CES, Intel unveiled Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, the first AI PC platform built on Intel 18A process technology that was designed and manufactured in the United States. Powering over 200 designs from leading, global partners, Series 3 will be the most broadly adopted and globally available AI PC platform Intel has ever delivered.

Within the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 mobile lineup, a new class of Intel Core Ultra X9 and X7 processors come packed with the highest performing, integrated Intel Arc graphics. They are purpose-built for multitaskers that handle advanced workloads like gaming, creation and productivity on the go. The top SKUs feature up to 16 CPU cores, 12 Xe -cores and 50 NPU TOPS, delivering up to 60% better multithread performance over 77% faster gaming performance and up to 27 hours of battery life.
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Open-source AI is accelerating innovation across industries, and NVIDIA DGX Spark and DGX Station are built to help developers turn innovation into impact. NVIDIA today unveiled at the CES trade show how the DGX Spark and DGX Station deskside AI supercomputers let developers harness the latest open and frontier AI models on a local deskside system, from 100-billion-parameter models on DGX Spark to 1-trillion-parameter models on DGX Station. Powered by the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell architecture, with large unified memory and petaflop-level AI performance, these systems give developers new capabilities to develop locally and easily scale to the cloud.
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NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD is paving the way for large-scale system deployments built on the NVIDIA Rubin platform—the next leap forward in AI computing. At the CES trade show in Las Vegas, NVIDIA today introduced the Rubin platform, comprising six new chips designed to deliver one incredible AI supercomputer, and engineered to accelerate agentic AI, mixture‑of‑experts (MoE) models and long‑context reasoning. The Rubin platform unites six chips—the NVIDIA Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPU and Spectrum-6 Ethernet Switch—through an advanced codesign approach that accelerates training and reduces the cost of inference token generation.

DGX SuperPOD remains the foundational design for deploying Rubin‑based systems across enterprise and research environments. The NVIDIA DGX platform addresses the entire technology stack—from NVIDIA computing to networking to software—as a single, cohesive system, removing the burden of infrastructure integration and allowing teams to focus on AI innovation and business results. "Rubin arrives at exactly the right moment, as AI computing demand for both training and inference is going through the roof," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
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AI is powering breakthroughs across industries, helping enterprises operate with greater intelligence and speed. As AI factories scale, the next generation of enterprise AI depends on infrastructure that can efficiently manage data, secure every stage of the pipeline and accelerate the core services that move, protect and process information alongside AI workloads.

NVIDIA has expanded the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design to include NVIDIA BlueField cybersecurity and infrastructure acceleration capabilities. This accelerates the data center services that keep AI factories running and delivers security that can operate at the same speed as AI. Leading software platforms from NVIDIA BlueField ecosystem partners Armis, Check Point, F5, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Rafay, Red Hat, Spectro Cloud and Trend Micro are now validated as part of NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory, helping enterprises enhance runtime protection, streamline operations and strengthen the infrastructure that powers AI.
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Acer today unveiled four new monitors, including three premium models for gamers and a cutting-edge 6K display for creators, as well as an eco-friendly laser projector for gamers and home cinema fans. The three gaming monitors fulfill gamers' needs for speed and precision to achieve spectacular performance in every gaming match.

These models include the Predator XB273U F6 that features AMD FreeSync Premium and delivers up to 1000 Hz motion clarity, giving competitive players the split-second advantage required to stay ahead in the fastest-paced titles; the Predator X34 F3, delivering 360 Hz speed and outstanding visual quality with a brilliant QD-OLED panel; and the Nitro XV270X P, supporting crystal-clear 5K resolution and up to 330 Hz refresh rates for staying on top of a wide range of esports. The Acer ProDesigner PE320QX monitor for professional creators provides stunning 6K clarity and smooth, high-performance visuals across all major display interfaces. In addition, the Acer Vero HL1820 RGB laser projector features 4K UHD resolution visuals in an eco-friendly design for enjoying both films and gameplay.
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At CES 2026, ADATA showed off its latest consumer portable SSD products. The ADATA SR800 is a combination of a portable SSD and a power bank, for smartphones and with USB-C interfaces. The drive features a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps) data-interface, and comes in capacities of 1 TB and 2 TB, offering sequential transfer speeds of 2 GB/s. As a power bank, it packs a 5000 mAh battery, and can deliver up to 15 W of power over wire, and 15 W over Qi-compatible wireless. It can latch onto your phone with a magnetic surface, recharge it, while you're moving stuff to its storage.

ADATA Project BulletX is a USB4 portable SSD that comes in a form-factor resembling the SE920, but much smaller. ADATA claims that this is the industry's most compact USB4 SSD. The drive fully saturates 40 Gbps USB4, offering sequential speeds of up to 4 GB/s reads, with up to 3.6 GB/s writes, and comes in capacities ranging from 1 TB to 4 TB. ADATA Project TapSafe is an upcoming secure portable SSD that features NFC smart card-based unlock mechanism, it integrates an NFC reader. The drive features a 20 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 interface and comes in capacities of 1 TB and 2 TB, with up to 2 GB/s of sequential transfer speeds.

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CPS PCCooler brought a large selection of new cases, PSUs, AIO and air type CPU coolers, to the 2026 International CES. Starting things off, we've come across their KN-series, YS-series, and YT-series premium ATX 3.1 PSU series, each with modern 12V-2x6 connectors, and differentiated by features such as idle fan-stop, Cybenetics acoustics ratings, body depth, and fan sizes. The SU1650 is a Cybenetics Titanium-rated 1650 W PSU (probably the most efficient PSU in its wattage-class), and puts out two 600 W 12V-2x6 connectors.

Next up, are the DA Max line of AIO CPU coolers, a revision of the DA line of coolers introduced last year, with improvements made to the pump and fan performance. The GT-M series of AIO CLCs come with rectangular true-color displays framed by large, cuboidal pump-block designs. The RZ820 Display is perhaps the first and only air CPU cooler we've come across that features a true-color display. It comes with a 5-inch IPS LCD in landscape layout, arranged along the top-plate of this dual fin-stack CPU cooler. There are two fans included, which are arranged in push-pull configuration.
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