Nvidia’s gift to budget gamers

Nvidia’s gift to budget gamers - Tech News March 8
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► TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Welcome to Paul’s Tech News - March 8, 2026
1:34 PC graphics cards are now nearly 100 percent Nvidia
4:58 Nvidia said to be planning RTX 5050 9GB and RX 3060 restock
TECH BRIEFS
7:24 RIP Entry Level PCs - market to ‘disappear’ by 2028
8:04 DRAM bots reportedly being deployed to hoover up memory chips
8:43 California’s Upcoming Age Verification on OS Installation Law
9:39 Xbox Confirms 'Project Helix', Next-Gen Console Will Also Play PC Games
10:29 BBC News Office monitor setup is wild

► LINKS
PC graphics cards are now nearly 100 percent Nvidia
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079686/pc-graphics-cards-are-now-nearly-100-percent-nvidia.html
https://www.jonpeddie.com/news/q425-pc-graphics-aib-shipments-decreased-4-4-from-last-quarter-to-11-million-units-with-a-cagr-to-2029-of-5-9/
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/i-think-the-fact-that-everything-is-scarce-is-fantastic-for-us-says-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-in-a-world-of-constraint-you-have-no-choice-but-to-choose-the-best/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/jensen-huang-says-nvidia-is-pulling-back-from-openai-and-anthropic-but-his-explanation-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers/
https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/micron-calls-gddr7-memory-capacity-a-performance-bottleneck-as-nvidias-rtx-50-super-series-remains-mia/
Nvidia said to be planning RTX 5050 9GB and RX 3060 restock
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-plans-geforce-rtx-5050-with-9gb-memory-and-96-bit-bus
https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-3060-stock-may-return-starting-mid-march-2026
TECH BRIEFS
RIP Entry Level PCs - market to ‘disappear’ by 2028
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/rising-memory-prices-pile-more-strain-on-consumer-pc-market
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-02-26-gartner-says-surging-memory-costs-will-reduce-global-pc-and-smartphone-shipments-in-2026
DRAM bots reportedly being deployed to hoover up memory chips
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-bots-reportedly-being-deployed-to-hoover-up-memory-chips-and-components-one-operation-ran-10-million-web-scraping-requests-hitting-ddr5-ram-product-pages-every-6-5-seconds
https://datadome.co/threat-research/scarcity-ddr5-ram-fueled-by-ai-demand-scalping-surge/
CA Age Verification on OS Install Law
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law
Xbox Confirms 'Project Helix', Its Next-Gen Console That Will Also Play PC Games
https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-confirms-project-helix-its-next-gen-console-that-will-also-play-pc-games
BBC News Office monitor setup is wild
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1qdo150/what_is_your_monitor_set_up/
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1rj3b81/inside_the_bbc_news_office_the_monitor_setup_is/

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