This week, we look at GPD’s wild Win 5 handheld, gamescom 2025 hype, dbrand’s iPhone 17 leak, and Subnautica 2 drama. Also, I broke my PC.
Hi, hello and welcome to a new edition of overkill digest.
I'm Kevin, the host of this newsletter, and the idiot who broke his Gaming PC. So if you'd excuse me for a second: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
I don't know how it happened, but I somehow managed to both fry my motherboard and bent the pins on my 5700X3D. Originally I wanted to replace my CPU cooler with an AIO. But it already started with the fact that somehow my old cooler and my CPU were fused together, and it was impossible to take it off. So I had to force it a little, which made it come off too quickly and the CPU dropped back into the case. The result: bent pins. I tried to bend them back, but I am way too shaky to do it properly.
However, I had still my old 5600X so I installed that instead, and... nothing. The PC didn't turn on. I tried everything I could, talked to geekier friends, but nada. It refuses to turn on. I even tried a different PSU, checked my old one with a multi-meter, checked if the case button maybe doesn't work anymore (it does), and even completely took apart the PC and rebuilt it again, twice. No luck. Somehow something seems to have broken when I took off that CPU+CPU cooler combo. My current theory is that I nuked the CPU socket.
This is highly frustrating, since I wanted to originally play Battlefield 6 the whole weekend. Instead I tried to fix the PC, failed, got annoyed, and... bought a whole new rig. I originally planned to upgrade my PC this year anyway to pair it with the 4090 I got but decided to wait a year. Well, now I was forced to upgrade, and in typical Kevin-fashion I went overkill, since I got a 9800X3D and all the stuff that goes with it. Here's my PC Part Picker list (this is just missing one more 2TB nvme drive, but I don't know what it's called; and I picked that motherboard, because I originally went with a 7800X3D, but saw a deal on the newer CPU, and the motherboard already has the BIOS update installed that makes it compatible with the AMD 9000 series).
The CPU still has to arrive, so I haven't built it yet, but I've already prepared the Windows USB drive. Thankfully, thanks to this tool from Schneegans, the setup should be semi-automated and I don't have to do too much stuff after reinstalling it all. I also vibe-coded a winget script to install most of the apps I use on a daily (gaming) basis, that I added to the XML. So, all should be good to go, hoping that nothing else broke (basically, I'm just recycling the case, the drives, and the 4090; if the 4090 is dead too, which there is no reason too, I'm going to have a mental breakdown).
Anyway, that was my weekend, I hope yours was way less stressful. That being said, let's get to this week's news (to be fair, it's a slow week).
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