Content and news by Rob Williams

NVIDIA’s Turing-based GeForce RTX cards are fast, but their launch hasn’t been completely smooth. That’s ignoring the RTX ecosystem of features we can’t even use yet. Fortunately, though, most of the issues anyone has been facing can be fixed in software, and the new GeForce 416.81 Game Ready driver is tackling some…..

NVIDIA’s third GeForce RTX card has landed, coming to us in the form of the $499 RTX 2070. In some regards, this card could be considered the most interesting of the three, as it’s not only powerful, it offers the least-expensive way to take advantage of RTX feature sets – ray tracing and DLSS. We’re taking a look at ASUS’ Republic of Gamers STRIX model, sporting three big fans and customizable RGBs.

Upon hitting the first anniversary of Destiny on PC, Bungie apparently found itself feeling a bit generous. Or, a lot generous. Until November 18, anyone who’s never journeyed into the world of Destiny 2 on PC will be able to claim a free copy of the game. Unsurprisingly, this free copy withholds the most recent…..

Just when you thought Corsair couldn’t possibly fit more models into its all-in-one cooler lineup, it’s gone ahead and done just that. The new “Platinum” variant is for those who don’t want to compromise on anything – cooling ability, and features. And if those “features” include “bling”, the Platinum series has definitely…..

V-Ray for Cinema 4D has long been made available by a third-party, not the renderer’s principle developer, Chaos Group. So, it’d be understandable if you thought CG didn’t think enough of C4D to make its own magic happen. Well, it could be that the company has heard these murmurs, because it’s announced…..

Almost exactly five years ago, the folks at SPEC released SPECwpc, a benchmark suite catering to the wonderful world of workstation. Since then, the suite has been iterated on a number of times, and with the latest, it has been given a name-change: SPECworkstation 3. “SPECwpc” isn’t disappearing, though, since it’s the…..

For those who need a workstation graphics card that should slaughter benchmarks, not wallets, AMD’s Radeon Pro WX 8200 is worth checking out. This Vega-based WX sports a ton of cores for great compute and graphics performance, as well as 8GB of ECC HBM2 memory. But how does it serve your workload? Let’s figure that out.

When Samsung released its Galaxy Note 9, the company offered support for microSD cards up to 512GB in size. We’re used to seeing those kinds of numbers thrown around, and often, we can’t even acquire that kind of spec’d product if we tried – even through importing. Well, importing might now be…..

Corsair’s K70 RGB MK.2 keyboard series has been impressive for a few reasons, but a big one has been the fact that gamers have been able to choose between five different CHERRY MX switches to go with it. Now, two more switches have joined up, giving users a new option to consider: super-fast low-profile CHERRY MX switches.

At an event held in New York City earlier today, OnePlus rolled out its follow-up to the OnePlus 6, called 6T. It’s rare for a phone to get through to a launch date with minimal leaks, but that was one situation not enjoyed by OnePlus for the 6T. I am honestly not…..

It’s been some time since we’ve dug deep into the performance of AMD’s Radeon ProRender, so with the latest version now supporting heterogeneous rendering, the time is right to get to business. Included within is performance of 15 GPU configurations, including multi-GPU, as well as CPU+GPU.

Corsair’s K70 RGB MK.2 mechanical keyboard has become well-regarded for its feature set, its design, and also its durability. Now, that same plank gets a low-profile infusion, thanks to CHERRY and its MX Speed and Red low-profile switches. I am in the middle of testing the Speed version of this keyboard, and…..

There’s no shortage of subscription gaming services out there, but Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass looks to be one of the better ones for the money. Well, it will be if what company CEO Satya Nadella uttered during a financial call proves true: that the PC will gain Game Pass support in the…..

Logitech has been making webcams for as long as I can remember, and the more I think about it, the company has been a constant for me ever since I was a kid. If I had a webcam at any point in my life, it was Logitech. I even have a Logitech…..

We don’t have Quadro RTX in the house for testing (yet), but we do have GeForce RTX, and in case you were wondering: they do in fact work just fine for workstation use. We’re pitting the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 (among eight others) against OctaneRender, Redshift, and V-Ray.

After spending twelve years as an independent game developer, Trion Worlds has been acquired by Gamigo, a company which seemingly focuses only on free-to-play games. The free-to-play aspect of this acquisition makes sense, since F2P has been Trion’s modus operandi for the past five years or so. This acquisition hits me as…..

For virtual reality fans, news last week of the cancellation of a “Rift 2” from Oculus might have come as a bit of a shock. After all, Oculus was arguably the reason VR started to gain real traction, spearheading companies like HTC to move on in and deliver market-leading solutions. It’d be unfortunate…..

It’s fun to talk about the latest high-end hardware all of the time, but the (obvious) fact of the matter is, the majority of users are not going to be using that high-end hardware. Instead, most people are going to opt for a middle-of-the-road option, one that doesn’t break the bank, but…..

Before the weekend hit, AMD shot over some slides that discuss its thoughts on the recent Intel + Principled Technologies performance debacle. I saw some AMD employees make comments on the matter after it happened, but it didn’t seem like the company was going to offer an official statement until now. I’ll…..

It’s been just over a week since Black Ops 4 released, and so far, first impressions around the web seem to be good. Many fans of previous Call of Duty titles have claimed that the series is “all about the multi-player”, and Treyarch certainly proved it with BLOPS 4, which revolves almost…..