Last month, TechPowerUp was heavily involved in the identification of missing ROPs across newly released GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards. NVIDIA, board partners and system integrators have (largely) acknowledged these issues. Certain companies have initiated the processing of customer returned units, but a pre-built PC specialist—CyberPowerPC—revealed a more proactive approach when dealing with less-than-pedigree hardware. Corsair has weighed in on the matter, since its ORIGIN and Vengeance businesses are involved in the building and sale of modern gaming rigs. A company rep—CorsairLucky—provided some insight on their official subreddit: "upon learning of this issue, we immediately implemented a thorough review of the detailed production reports for each system shipped to date. Matching the expected breadth of this issue, we have identified only one customer with an affected GPU and are actively working with them to provide a replacement."

Team Green posits that only 0.5% of released "Blackwell" GPU-based products are affected, Corsair's statement also refers to this percentage statistic. Several media outlets have posited that NVIDIA has produced a "conjectured" figure—in particular, the claimed 0.5% stat was questioned by Gamers Nexus. According to VideoCardz's inside track, NVIDIA's launch of GeForce RTX 5070 cards was delayed due to a number of factors—including lower than expected ROP counts. Earlier today, Team Green confirmed that its GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition launch window has been pushed into "late March."

ORIGIN PC is excited to launch the NEURON 3500X, a high-performance desktop system featuring a price that is unrivaled in the market. This new ready-to-ship system is set to redefine standards in the space of desktop computing systems.

The NEURON 3500X, renowned for its high performance and affordability, will be shipping in just 1-3 business days. This expedited delivery timeline allows our valued customers to experience the cutting-edge capabilities of the NEURON 3500X, equipped with an Intel i5-13600KF, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB, and 32 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5, without any cumbersome wait times. We take immense pride in our commitment to customer service and satisfaction, providing not just revolutionary technology but also exemplary delivery standards.

CORSAIR, a world leader in enthusiast components for gamers, creators, and PC builders, and ORIGIN PC, a provider of custom PCs for gamers, enthusiasts, and professionals, today announced updated configurations of their award-winning desktop PCs equipped with powerful new 12th Gen Intel Core processors. The CORSAIR VENGEANCE i7300 Series, alongside ORIGIN NEURON, MILLENNIUM, GENESIS, M-Class, and L-Class desktops, are all available with up to an Intel Core i9-12900K processor, supported by an array of award-winning CORSAIR components including newly-released CORSAIR DDR5 memory.

The latest generation of processors from Intel delivers incredible speed and intelligence, enabling impressive gaming, productivity, and content creation. With new performance hybrid architecture that distributes processing power to where you need it most, and compatibility with the new DDR5 memory platform, the CPUs powering every updated CORSAIR and ORIGIN PC system offer unprecedented speed and performance.

ORIGIN PC announced the availability of the all-new EVO17-S gaming laptop and NT-17 workstation laptop, both powered by an NVIDIA GeForce RTX SUPER graphics card with Max-Q design and an Intel Core 10th Gen processor featuring up to 8 cores and 16 threads. Each laptop offers incredible performance, a 17.3-inch screen, and improved battery life in a sleek and portable chassis.

Using next-gen hardware, the EVO17-S and NT-17 offer the latest hardware offerings from Intel and NVIDIA. Experience real-time ray-tracing and improved performance in games with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX SUPER graphics card, up to an RTX 2080 SUPER. Reach a 5.10 GHz clock speed using Intel Max Turbo with an Intel Core i7-10875H 8-core processor. The EVO17-S and NT-17 laptops are capable of supporting 64 GB RAM to make it ready to run multiple programs at the same time.

ORIGIN PC announced the availability of the all-new EVO15-S gaming laptop and NT-15 workstation laptop, both powered by Intel Core 10th Gen processors featuring up to 8 cores and 16 threads. The all-new laptops offer improved performance over their predecessors, while still in a thin and light body.

The EVO15-S and NT-15 are the first laptops from ORIGIN PC to feature 10th generation Intel Core processors. Powered by an Intel Core i7-10875H 8-core processor, gamers and professionals can take advantage of a 5.10 GHz clock speed with Intel Max Turbo technology. Play the latest games with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX SUPER graphics card, up to an RTX 2080 SUPER, and enable real-time ray tracing and other RTX features. Add up to 64 GB of RAM to the EVO15-S or NT-15 laptops to run multiple programs at once.

CORSAIR, a world leader in high-performance gaming peripherals and enthusiast components, is pleased to announce that it has acquired custom gaming PC leader ORIGIN PC. With a decade of experience in creating high-performance PCs, ORIGIN PC specializes in delivering hand-built, personalized PCs that deliver the best gaming experience possible, while maintaining world-class customer service and support from day one.

ORIGIN PC offers a wide range of high-performance configurable PCs, ranging from gaming PCs and powerful workstations to gaming laptops, building systems focused on customization, service, gaming, and technology to deliver a complete gaming experience. ORIGIN PC systems have won hundreds of media awards and industry accolades and are trusted by customers across North America to provide a truly personalized custom gaming PC experience.

Major American PC and consumer-electronics OEMs, namely Dell, HP, Microsoft, and Amazon, are reportedly moving some of their manufacturing out of China, in the wake of the ongoing US-China trade-war, an offshoot of which inflicts import-tariffs on a spectrum of products imported from China. This impacts China as a destination for manufacturing. According to Japanese business publication Nikkei, HP and Dell are each moving 30 percent of their laptop manufacturing volume out of China. This roughly aligns with their volumes bound for the US market. They could continue manufacturing in China for volumes headed to other markets.

Currently, the U.S. Government imposes import tariffs on $200 billion worth goods imported from China, and fully built PCs were immune to these tariffs. This has had an adverse and unfair impact on U.S.-based system integrators such as OriginPC, Falcon Northwest, etc., who import components and assemble gaming PCs and notebooks on U.S. soil, on a build-to-order basis. A new round of import tariffs proposed by Washington changes this, and brings even fully-built laptops, smartphones, and gaming consoles under the ambit of import tariffs. This explains why Microsoft and Amazon are eager to change their manufacturing landscapes. Microsoft makes its Surface line of premium portable computers, and Xbox game consoles in China, while Amazon makes a vast array of IoT products under its main brand, and various knick-knacks under its Amazon Basics brand.

ORIGIN PC launched upgraded models of their award-winning EON15-X, EON17-X, and EON17-SLX high-performance gaming laptops and their ORIGIN ND-17, NS-17 and NS-15 professional high-performance laptops today. Gamers, enthusiasts, and professionals all over the world can unleash mobile dominance with ORIGIN PC's new EON, ND and NS laptops featuring Intel's latest 8th generation "Coffee Lake" desktop processors up to an Intel Core i7 8700K and with ORIGIN PC's benchmark-breaking professional CPU overclocking.

Thanks to ORIGIN PC's CPU overclocking and Intel's 8th generation Core processors you can easily live stream your gameplay experiences, record gameplay, edit clips, and post your epic highlights faster than ever on the go! The new EON, ND and NS laptops also feature support for up to DUAL NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics, up to 64GB of DDR4 Memory, PCIe NVMe m.2 drives in RAID, and optional 1080p 120Hz displays or 4K displays; both with NVIDIA G-SYNC support.

ORIGIN PC launched upgraded models of their award-winning EON15-X, EON17-X, and EON17-SLX high-performance laptops today. Gamers, enthusiasts, and professionals all over the world can unleash mobile dominance with ORIGIN PC's new EON laptops featuring NVIDIA's game changing desktop class GeForce GTX 1080, 1070, and 1060 graphics cards. With the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10-Series graphics cards, ORIGIN PC offers up to 3X the performance of previous-generation GPUs, compatibility with the most popular VR headsets, 4K-gaming support, and support for DirectX 12 features to deliver the fastest, smoothest gaming notebook experiences ever.

The new EON15-X, EON17-X, and EON17-SLX laptops also feature support for up to an Intel Core i7 6700k desktop processor, ORIGIN PC professional CPU and GPU overclocking, up to 64GB of DDR4 Memory, PCIe NVMe m.2 drives in RAID and optional 1080p 120Hz displays or 4K displays; both with NVIDIA G-SYNC support.

ORIGIN PC announced today the availability of their latest award-winning EON15-S, EON17-S, EON17-SLX and EVO15-S high-performance laptops with NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 900M series graphics cards for gamers, artists, professionals and enthusiasts. Powered by NVIDIA's next-gen Maxwell architecture, the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and 970M deliver an incredible mobile gaming experience with a staggering 50% increase in performance over the previous generation, up to 8GB of GDDR5 Memory, and support for NVIDIA's latest advanced technologies such as Cone-Traced Global Illumination (CTGI), GeForce Experience, and NVIDIA Game Stream. Also featuring support for up to 4K-quality gaming and DirectX 12, the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and 970M bring desktop-class gaming performance inside your next ORIGIN PC laptop like never before.

Powered by the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M, the ORIGIN PC EVO15-S thin and light will also soon be available with a stunning 4K-Ready display enabling a beautiful, buttery smooth, 4K gaming experience on the go! Experience true next generation PC gaming on any ORIGIN PC EON or EVO laptop today with the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and 970M graphics cards!

NVIDIA recently unleashed an onslaught on the gaming world, an onslaught named Maxwell. We launched the new graphics architecture during GAME24, an unprecedented 24-hour celebration of gaming. And it blew away gamers across the globe. We held onto one big secret, which we're revealing today: the introduction of the GeForce GTX 970M and GeForce GTX 980M notebook GPUs.

Maxwell, the company's 10th-generation GPU architecture, is undeniably the world's most advanced. It solves some of the most complex lighting and graphics challenges in visual computing. And it does so with twice the energy efficiency of the previous generation. It's a combination that will pay huge dividends in notebooks. Let's start with some history. NVIDIA's 8th-generation GPU architecture, Fermi, delivered about 40% of the desktop equivalent in 2010. Kepler, our 9th generation GPU, launched in 2010, closed the gap to 60%, giving gamers 1080p resolution and "ultra" settings for the first time in a notebook.

OCZ Storage Solutions - a Toshiba Group Company and leading provider of high-performance solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, announced today that its flagship Vector 150 Series is now a qualified storage option for custom-built gaming desktops and laptops developed by ORIGIN PC for gaming enthusiasts. As a unique group of users, PC gamers require an increasingly higher level of performance to tackle the latest and greatest gaming titles in real-time, and the OCZ Vector 150 Series is proven to increase fluidity of game-play as well as overall system responsiveness.

"We are pleased that our Vector 150 SSDs are now qualified and an available option for ORIGIN's widely respected line of custom-built, high-performance PCs and workstations for the computer gaming industry," said Ralph Schmitt, CEO for OCZ Storage Solutions. "The Vector 150 Series is an ideal fit for ORIGIN's 'elite' systems, as it delivers industry-leading sustained performance across all capacities to help provide the ultimate gaming experience. This helps gamers in performing at the highest levels not only right after the initial system power up, but for months and even years later."

ORIGIN PC announced today the availability of an NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z graphics card in their latest ORIGIN CHRONOS micro-tower. Thanks to TITAN Z's groundbreaking dual-GPU setup, 12GB of GDDR5 Memory, incredible speed and quiet performance, the ORIGIN CHRONOS micro-tower can easily run all of the latest PC titles at buttery smooth frame rates and at stunning 4K resolutions. Featuring a small and slim footprint, the ORIGIN CHRONOS micro-tower can also be placed horizontally or vertically to fit inside any living room, bed room, or office setting for added convenience. The ORIGIN CHRONOS micro-tower is easily the ultimate solution for any gamer, enthusiast or professional looking for a small, compact PC, but without any compromise in power or performance.