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Sunday Entertainment Edition: The RTX 5090's Rumored Goodbye, AI Photoshop Chaos & Your Fall Gaming Calendar

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Sunday Entertainment Edition: The RTX 5090's Rumored Goodbye, AI Photoshop Chaos & Your Fall Gaming Calendar

Sunday Entertainment Edition: The RTX 5090's Rumored Goodbye, AI Photoshop Chaos & Your Fall Gaming Calendar

It's Sunday, October 11, 2026 — which means the only responsible thing to do is grab a coffee, put the screwdriver down, and binge the week's best tech YouTube while pretending you're "researching." Lucky you, I did the digging already. This week delivered a alleged Nvidia drama bomb, two of the biggest channels on the internet covering the same weird laptop, and a benchmark season for the ages. Let's roll.

🎬 The Watchlist: Best Videos of the Week

Linus Tech Tips — "Pros Try Fake AI Photoshop" LTT hands real creative professionals AI-generated images and asks them to spot the fakes. It's part game show, part existential crisis — and honestly the perfect palate cleanser after a week of heavy GPU news. Watch:

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Gamers Nexus — "DDR3 Rides Again, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs" Steve and Wendell teaming up to celebrate ancient DDR3 platforms still punching in 2026 is exactly the kind of retro-gremlin content I live for. If you've got an X79 board in a closet, this one's a call to arms. Watch:

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Hardware Unboxed — "Can A Simple App Really Fix PC Game Stutters?" Tim puts a stutter-fixing app through the wringer with real frame-time data instead of vibes. Spoiler-adjacent hint: be skeptical of magic fixes. This is the rigor that keeps HUB at the top of the benchmark food chain. Watch:

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JayzTwoCents — "Now I can play games from my childhood" Jay shows how any old machine becomes a retro gaming powerhouse, since classic games barely tax modern silicon. Between this, his PC tuning guide ("Tune your PC like a Pro,"

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), and a shiny new CNC mill unboxing (

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), Jay had a stacked week. Watch the retro one here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5TYNFPWG1g

The "Googlebook" Face-Off — Dave2D vs. MKBHD The crossover event of the week: BOTH Dave2D ("The Laptop for 71% of People,"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZedAs9P7yE8

) and MKBHD ("WTF is a Googlebook?",

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0G4OG39XjI

) covered Google's entry into laptops within 72 hours of each other. Dave's take is the pragmatic spec-slab analysis; Marques' is the polished "what does this even mean for the market" treatment. Watching both back-to-back is the closest thing tech YouTube has to a debate stage. Bonus: MKBHD's "Xiaomi 18 Fold: How Does This Happen?" (

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iRUwVzRDZQ

) is a flex of engineering absurdity you shouldn't skip.

🔥 The Story That Broke the Week: RTX 5090, 2026–2026?

On October 10, leaker MEGAsizeGPU claimed on X that all future GB202 silicon is going to Nvidia's RTX PRO cards — effectively ending RTX 5090 production in year one. VideoCardz, TechPowerUp and eTeknix picked it up, and an RTX 5080 24GB is now tipped for early 2027. Important asterisk: Nvidia has not confirmed anything, so file this under "strongly-worded rumor" for now. (Sources: eTeknix, tbreak, explainx.ai fact-check)

But the market has already voted. I pulled live Amazon pricing this morning and the listings read like a panic sale in reverse. Behold the madness:

Card 🇺🇸 Amazon US 🇨🇦 Amazon CA Stock
ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 5090 32GB OC $7,443.99 (from $6,499.99) $9,676.98 Only 1 left
ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 OC $7,899.00 $10,299.99 (from $9,299.99) Only 1 left
Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5090 Infinity $7,177.68 — Only 1 left
MSI RTX 5090 SUPRIM SOC $8,588.88 — Only 1 left
ASUS ROG Matrix Platinum 30th Anniv. $9,899.00 — Only 2 left
MSI RTX 5090 Ventus 3X OC — $14,655.00 —
PNY RTX 5090 Triple Fan — $19,811.68 🫠 —

And my personal favorite listing of all time: a "(No GPU) ASUS RTX 5090 TUF — decoration/collectible display model" for $280.00 CAD on Amazon.ca. A cardboard-and-fake-fans replica of a card you can't afford, because even the idea of a 5090 has appreciated. 2026, everyone.

The silver lining? If the rumor holds, the 5080's $2,719.99 CAD (MSI Inspire 3X OC) and the TUF 5070 Ti at $1,799.99 CAD start looking a whole lot like the sane Canadian plays.

🕹️ Community Highlight: Your TV Might Be Watching You

The story with real legs this week isn't a GPU — it's privacy. Gamers Nexus and Level1Techs published a joint investigation that rooted an LG Smart TV and found automatic content recognition (ACR) snooping on what you watch. French outlet Les Numériques ran a fact-check special on it this morning, and GN followed up with "It's Time to Hack Your Devices and Own Them" (

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6sF3pLsbKI

) plus a spicy video on a Microsoft patent for LG-style ACR applied to games and software (

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smwo493IAfw

). Watch the LG-adjacent deep dive, then go disable ACR on every screen in your house. Seriously — go do it.

📅 Your Fall Gaming & LAN Calendar

Mark these down — couch or carry bag, your call:

  • LudoNarraCon — LIVE NOW (Oct 8–12): The narrative-games festival runs entirely on Steam through Monday. Free demos, panel streams, zero pants required. (eventsforgamers.com)
  • Gears of War: E-Day — launched Oct 6 on Xbox Series X|S, PC and Game Pass (premium early access Oct 1). The benchmark scene has been on fire all week: RTX 5080 4K DLSS preset battles, the 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT showdown at 4K, and FSR 4 reportedly giving elderly RDNA cards like the RX 5700 XT a second lease on life. It's the new GPU stress test of the season. (xbox.com)
  • LVT Halo Pro League 2026 LAN Finale — Nov 13 (US): $100K prize pool, proper LAN arena energy. (visitesports.com)
  • CS2 Major Singapore — Nov 25 to Dec 13: 32 teams, US$1.25M prize pool. The second Major of 2026 closes out the CS2 year in style. (egamersworld.com)
  • DreamHack Stockholm — Nov 27–29: The world's most famous LAN party at Stockholmsmässan — 60,000+ attendees from 70 countries last year. Book flights now, Canadians, this is the pilgrimage. (dreamhack.com/stockholm)
  • PAX Unplugged — Dec 4–6, Philadelphia: The board-gaming bookend to your year. Bring a sweater and a backpack full of snacks. (bleedingcool.com)

The Verdict

This was a week where hardware drama, privacy journalism and pure entertainment all collided — and that's the hobby at its best. My Sunday prescription: start with LTT's AI Photoshop chaos for laughs, queue GN's LG investigation for the important stuff, let HUB talk you out of buying stutter-fix snake oil, then close with Jay's retro build while you price-check a 5080 instead of a 5090. Your wallet will thank you, and I'll see you next Sunday with another edition.

— Ryan, nxpc

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