RIP Windows 10 – Tech News Oct 19

RIP Windows 10 – Tech News Oct 19
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► TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Welcome to Paul’s Tech News – October 19, 2025
1:46 RIP Windows 10 – Microsoft Ends Support
4:09 Intel’s (Definitely Not Celestial) Arc XE3 Panther Lake iGPU Performance Leak
6:24 GPU Prices Down, RAM / SSD / HDD Prices Up
TECH BRIEFS
8:26 Four more burned RTX 50 series power cables in just 2 days, 9070 XT too
9:40 Asetek has a mysterious new mega-customer
10:20 MSI denies involvement after pallets of GeForce RTX 5090 cards spotted in China
11:19 Paul’s Hardware Holiday Build / Giveaway Series

► LINKS
RIP Windows 10 – Microsoft Ends Support
https://www.engadget.com/computing/windows-10-support-has-ended-but-heres-how-to-get-an-extra-year-for-free-125118875.html
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/windows-10-end-of-support-2025
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows
https://www.techpowerup.com/341832/microsoft-breaks-windows-media-creation-tool-ahead-of-windows-10-eol
https://www.techpowerup.com/341976/microsoft-breaks-localhost-with-windows-11-october-update-users-forced-to-revert
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79790827/localhost-applications-failing-after-installing-2025-10-cumulative-update-for-w
Intel’s (Definitely Not Celestial) Arc XE3 Panther Lake iGPU Performance Leak
https://wccftech.com/intel-core-ultra-x9-388h-igpu-shows-up-to-50-higher-performance-vs-lunar-lake/

英特尔Panther Lake核显性能达到6300 TimeSpy，超过入门级独显

https://www.techpowerup.com/341937/intel-core-ultra-x9-388h-panther-lake-igpu-scores-33-increase-over-lunar-lake
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-ultra-300-panther-lake-cpus-appear-in-hwmonitor-update-flagship-core-ultra-x9-388h-confirmed
GPU Prices Down, RAM / SSD / HDD Prices Up
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/uh-oh-its-happening-adata-chairman-says-the-perfect-storm-of-simultaneous-dram-ssd-and-hdd-shortages-is-already-upon-us-and-it-looks-like-prices-are-only-going-in-one-direction/
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/adata-chairman-says-ai-datacenters-are-gobbling-up-hard-drives-ssds-and-dram-alike-insatiable-upstream-demand-could-soon-lead-to-consumer-shortages
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/prime-day-is-old-news-but-the-gpu-deals-are-still-rolling-in-with-the-arc-b570-and-geforce-rtx-5070-now-the-cheapest-theyve-ever-been/
$500 RTX 5070 (Amazon Prime deal) – https://geni.us/9meSM
TECH BRIEFS
Four more burned RTX 50 series power cables in just 2 days, 9070 XT too
https://videocardz.com/newz/four-more-burned-power-cables-reported-on-geforce-rtx-50-series-cards-in-just-2-days
https://videocardz.com/newz/sapphire-radeon-rx-9070-xt-nitro-reportedly-suffers-first-melted-12v-2×6-connector-case
Asetek has a mysterious new mega-customer
https://www.techpowerup.com/341913/asetek-signs-major-agreement-with-returning-customer-for-supply-of-high-end-liquid-cooling-products
MSI denies involvement after pallets of GeForce RTX 5090 cards spotted in China
https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-denies-involvement-after-pallets-of-geforce-rtx-5090-cards-spotted-in-china

an insane number of RTX 5090s spotted in China
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