HW News - DIY DDR5, OpenAI Needs Money, AMD 9850X3D Shown Again, 32GB RTX 5080 Mod (Gamers Nexus) [Video]

Gamers Nexus (2.56m subscribers)

December 30, 2025

Video length: 24m 28s

In hardware news this week, we recap the NVIDIA Groq staff and license acquisition, AMD's Ryzen 9850X3D getting another confirmation from a second official source (now Dell), how some modders are soldering DIY DDR5 DRAM, OpenAI's consideration of what we think might be the most invasive ads on the internet, and more.

00:00 - Recap for the Week

02:34 - NVIDIA Buys Groq Assets for $20 Billion

08:27 - AMD Ryzen 9850X3D Confirmed (Again)

10:47 - Soldering DIY DDR5 Memory

13:31 - Japanese Retailers Limit GPU Purchases at 16GB

14:27 - RTX 5080 32GB Mods

16:50 - OpenAI ChatGPT May Move to Invasive Advertising Model

22:13 - TSMC Price Hike on Wafers Inbound

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Posted Wednesday 31 December 2025 at 4:26 am AEST (my time).

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