It’s about time we had some Good Tech News - Aug 9 ▷ MY STORE - shirts, pint glasses & hoodies: http://paulshardware.net ⇨ Sponsor: Lexar NM790 Gen4 NVME SSDs | buy: https://geni.us/hiXb info: https://tinyurl.com/LXNM790 ► TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome to Paul’s Tech News - Aug 9, 2026 TECH BRIEFS - GOOD NEWS 1:47 AMD Radeon GPUs are getting per-chip VRAM temperature monitoring in HWiNFO 2:55 5070, 5080, 5090 to be sold at MSRP QuakeCon 2026 4:03 Microsoft just deleted Windows 11’s 32GB RAM recommendation docs 5:02 Microsoft will let publishers bring Xbox 360 games to PC, handhelds and next-gen Xbox 5:54 New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers 6:59 Awesome Hardware Charity Live Stream Announcement - Sat Aug 22 THE REST OF THE NEWS 7:26 RAM production worldwide sold out through 2027, but hope for storage / NAND 9:18 GPU Prices Up, Up, Up - Motherboards Too ► LINKS TECH BRIEFS - GOOD NEWS AMD Radeon GPUs are getting per-chip VRAM temperature monitoring in HWiNFO https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-gpus-are-getting-per-chip-vram-temperature-monitoring-in-hwinfo https://www.hwinfo.com/forum/threads/hwinfo-v8-51-6045-beta-released.11277/ https://videocardz.com/newz/hwinfo-beta-adds-per-chip-radeon-vram-temperatures-first-rx-9070-xt-tests-show-7-4c-spread 5070, 5080, 5090 to be sold at MSRP at QuakeCon 2026 https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/prodazhi-rtx-5090-rtx-5080-i-rtx-5070-po-rekomendovannym-tsenam-projdut-na-quakecon-2026 Microsoft just deleted Windows 11’s 32GB RAM recommendation docs https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/05/microsoft-just-deleted-windows-11s-32gb-ram-recommendation-docs-as-prices-soar-and-it-rushes-to-sell-8gb-ram-pcs/ Microsoft will let publishers bring Xbox 360 games to PC, handhelds and next-gen Xbox https://www.theverge.com/games/974544/microsoft-xbox-360-games-pc-disc-digital-program https://videocardz.com/newz/microsoft-will-let-publishers-bring-xbox-360-games-to-pc-handhelds-and-next-gen-xbox New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-impose-countrys-first-statewide-moratorium-data-centers-rcna587429 https://otherwords.org/ai-and-big-tech-are-flooding-middle-america-with-bribes/ Awesome Hardware Charity Stream - Sat Aug 22 THE REST OF THE NEWS RAM production worldwide is sold out through 2027 Digitimes (Chinese, machine translated) - https://www.digitimes.com.tw/tech/dt/n/shwnws.asp?CnlID=1&id=0000763847_DVY7YHX65GMLYZ6UQEEMP English, paywalled - https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260804PD217/2027-capacity-dram-nand-2026.html https://www.techpowerup.com/351344/memory-makers-seal-2027-deals-no-room-for-new-buyers https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/05/ram-production-worldwide-is-sold-out-through-2027 https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/01/21/memory-semiconductor-supercycle-set-to-run-through-2028/4090501 Hope for storage / NAND flash - https://www.techpowerup.com/350922/report-nand-flash-shortages-to-finally-end-in-2027 https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20260721-13148.html GPU Prices Up, Up, Up - Motherboards Too https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-and-gigabyte-reportedly-raise-gpu-channel-prices-by-around-20-in-china https://wccftech.com/asus-asks-5090-for-rtx-5090-after-cancelling-users-order-who-already-paid-4607/ https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-50-prices-rise-by-30-on-average-in-south-korea-within-days https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-gigabyte-and-msi-reportedly-plan-motherboard-price-increases-for-q3-2026 Intro Story about PC Building (PCWorld) - https://www.pcworld.com/article/3207230/pc-building-is-more-fun-when-you-have-no-idea-what-youre-doing.html Please note that links above may be affiliate links -- if you click them and make a qualifying purchase I earn a commission. ▷ MY STORE - shirts, pint glasses & hoodies: http://paulshardware.net ▷ SOCIAL Twitter: @paulhardware http://www.twitter.com/paulhardware Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pauls-Hardware/195425877329550 Instagram: http://instagram.com/paulhardware :::Send Me Stuff::: Paul's Hardware P.O. Box 4325 Diamond Bar, CA 91765 ► Edited by Joe Aguilar - ShaostylePostProductions https://www.youtube.com/@hatguyjoe Audio file(s) provided by Epidemic Sound http://www.epidemicsound.com/