Content and news by Rob Williams

A couple of weeks ago, Intel took the veil off of its ninth-gen Core series. At the forefront, that included the Core i9-9900K, an eight-core chip bound for the mainstream Z390 platform. With it comes the market’s highest Turbo clocks, and sixteen threads to help tear through some serious workloads. As lightly…..

I’m sure there’s something more important that can be written about, but sometimes it’s nice to just let it out and put rant to paper. Well, I’m not sure “rant” is the right word for this, but it will hopefully provide some insight as to how frustrating benchmarking can be when things…..

Silicon Lottery is a website that sells binned processors for whatever model’s popular, so when people pick one up, they know what to expect for overclocking. In that way, it’s not really a lottery, but it serves a need for those who want to push their hardware to the limit. The website…..

Since the introduction of its EPYC server processors last summer, AMD has been keen on sending out emails detailing its latest wins and newest partnerships. Admittedly, this has become a little hard to keep track of, which is impressive from the standpoint that this is a first-gen enterprise-grade product. With second-gen EPYC…..

It’s not surprising, but it remains disappointing that 10Gbps Ethernet has taken so long to catch on in the home. The standard 1Gbps connection most of us deal with is about on par with what we’d see from real-world transfer performance out of a mechanical hard drive. SATA SSDs are rated at…..

SATA-based SSDs are an easy choice if the option is between one and mechanical storage, but at this point in time, it feels like NVMe has become ubiquitous in this space. If you build a PC today, there’s really no reason not to opt for the faster storage, as long as the…..

As of this moment, Techgage is thirteen-and-a-half years old, which means we’ve been posting performance reviews for about just as long. It seems neat to have been doing this for over a decade, but at the same time, I feel like an idiot for waiting until 2018 before I decided to explore…..

NVIDIA has today launched its third Turing-based GeForce GPU, the RTX 2070. As notable as the launch is, it seems to be a quiet one, with NVIDIA itself keeping mum about it on social media (from what I can tell, at least). It’s also a launch that broke tradition and didn’t see…..

A couple of weeks ago, I shared news to our social channels of the Internet Archive’s effort to pay homage to the legendary music player Winamp. With “Webamp”, the Archive created a verbatim recreation of the classic Winamp 2.x, and even allows you to set one of 5,000+ equally classic skins that…..

Where content creation is concerned, Adobe is one of the first names to come to most minds. The company’s software portfolio is almost jaw-dropping, and as a newbie, it can seem daunting figuring out which application is used for which purpose. As an experienced Adobe user, chances are that multiple Adobe applications…..

It sometimes feels like that no launch can take place nowadays without major controversy of some sort creeping up. The latest case of this is with Intel’s 9th-gen Core series launch. At the event, and on its website, Intel quotes performance numbers that were gathered through questionable testing practices. Let’s explore what’s going on here.

Acronis recently held celebrations for its 15th anniversary at its worldwide headquarters in Singapore, and Techgage was invited to take part in the festivities. That involved hearing from some seriously smart and inspirational people, and in some cases, having our wits scared out of us at the fear of what the future will be like if we don’t protect our data.

The fine folks at Luxion have just released the next major version of their popular KeyShot design tool, and as a rabid benchmarker, I look forward to diving into 8 very soon. I’ve actually been hunkered down the past couple of weeks working on an automation suite, so I am hoping to…..

The market has no shortage of high-end NAS boxes – those with beefy processors, lots of memory, and as we’re seeing more and more, 10Gbps Ethernet. While the high-end is well taken care of though, the low-end side seems to have been largely ignored, and when I say low-end, I mean lower-end…..

In a move that could only be described as “earth-shattering”, Sony has decided to suck things up and let its beloved PlayStation platform finally join in on cross-play Fortnite fun. Up until this point, anyone playing Fortnite on PlayStation were glued to that platform – unless they wanted to create two separate…..

If in-app purchases were physical objects, we’d be tripping over them everywhere we went in our daily lives. If we’re talking AAA titles, it’s probably easier to find a game that has them than one that doesn’t. Even games that can barely justify having IAPs can have them – like single player…..

HyperX has today released two new products that both revolve around flash memory but cater to different audiences (or at least use cases). At the forefront is an SSD that we first saw announced by the company earlier this year, and yes, it’s an SSD that has RGBs on tap (as if…..

With NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX graphics cards now in the market, heads are once again turning towards AMD – what’s next for big red? Well, it seems pretty obvious that the Radeon team isn’t going to be able to counter Turing GeForce that soon, but it can still compete with Pascal of…..

NVIDIA’s new Turing-based GeForce RTX graphics cards have landed, and we have a lot of performance information inside these few pages to help you justify (or not justify) a purchase. We’re pitting both of the new cards along with six last-gen models against eight games at three resolutions – including 4K and 3440×1440.

This news broke earlier this week, but I feel it’s important enough to make sure that it’s seen by as many eyeballs as possible. It’s a story that highlights just how haphazardly your data can be handled by etail companies, even if there are assurances that security is at the forefront of…..