Content and news by Rob Williams

From the “It’s about damn time!” files is news from EVGA that the company is going to soon be shipping its motherboard drivers on a… *drum roll*… flash drive. Novel idea, right? In reality, it’s been an idea pretty much everyone has had at some point the past decade, as optical discs…..

To better show off what AMD has in store for 2018 (and the future) on the business side of its… business, the company invited press and analysts down to its new Santa Clara headquarters last week. Usually, I don’t take enough photos to justify a post, but this time was different. I…..

Intel may be struggling with getting its 10nm processors out the door, but in other markets, the company is apparently making some great progress, and signing some huge deals. Last year, the company acquired Israel’s Mobileye for $15.3 billion, and while Intel has dabbled in many markets it ended up pulling out…..

OnePlus’ latest flagship has proven to be one of the worst-kept secrets in 2018, with an incredible number of leaks that turned out to be true, for the most part. The new OnePlus 6 sports a very different design over the previous flagships, largely because of the all-glass design, and, the Apple-esque…..

Lenovo’s Yoga series has long been respected for its notebooks’ ability to bend to your will, and the 920 (14) proves to be one of the best models the series has seen. With its incredibly sturdy design, sharp watchband hinge, super-thin frame, and beautiful aesthetics, the Yoga 920 is the ultralight 2-in-1 to consider.

4K/144Hz G-SYNC monitors have been rumored for launch for a number of months, but we now have actual proof that some models will be gracing store shelves (digital or otherwise) soon. As in… this month, potentially. This is according to KitGuru, which talked to NVIDIA’s G-SYNC PM Vijay Sharma at a London…..

“With the Logitech G305, there is no reason to game with a leash” may be one of the best lines I’ve ever seen in a press release. It of course relates to the very product mentioned: a brand-new LIGHTSPEED gaming mouse model from Logitech that brings ultra-fast wireless performance to the masses.…..

The original Rage, which was released in 2011 as a semi-open-world shooter, impressed the masses overall. On PC, there were some issues that kept people unhappy for a time, but ultimately, the game felt like a commercial success… something proven by the fact that we’re now talking about its just-announced sequel. And…..

Considering the fact that Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and S9+ came out only a couple of months ago, it’s a little surprising that we’re already hearing about what the S10 might introduce. Or… is it? For the most part, the S9 family doesn’t look or feel that much different from the S8 family,…..

Nearly a year after I took Corsair’s Crystal 570X chassis for a test drive, I find myself still admiring its overall design. It’s not the easiest chassis to work with, a given with tempered glass on all sides, but the finished product looks fantastic – especially if you have some LED fans.…..

Following the launch of its second-gen Ryzen consumer processors just over a month ago, AMD is back, ready to divulge a whack of information surrounding its second-gen Ryzen Pro desktop and mobile CPUs – and, a whole lot more. If you dig Threadripper, EPYC, or AMD notebooks, there’s something for you here.

Counterfeit products have likely been a problem for about as long as humans have existed, with an incredible number of believable products being recycled and reused, or straight-up faked, hitting markets every day. The issue is especially bad in China, which is home to a countless number of counterfeiting stories – we’ve…..

A new entrant has just arrived in the SSD market: GIGABYTE. With its initial UD PRO series, the company is targeting the value-conscious consumer who doesn’t want to spend a whole lot, but still want much better performance than mechanical storage (or simply need to replace their preexisting SSD). GIGABYTE has provided…..

NVIDIA sends us many emails, but it’s one that says something as simple as “GeForce GTX back in stock!” that makes our ears perk up. It’s a secret to no one that the GPU market has been seriously rough the past year or more, with prices skyrocketing on any model capable of…..

Last month, we tried to counter April’s showers with a look at the performance of two ray tracing renderers: AMD’s Radeon ProRender, and Chaos Group’s V-Ray. On the V-Ray side, the latest 4.0 version brings significant performance boosts, especially if you’re using a GPU equipped with Tensor cores. At the time our…..

As someone who’s used five-bay NASes for quite some time, I’ve come to feel like it’s the “perfect” size. Four of the bays can be used for RAID5 (not that this is particularly suggested for huge volumes), and the spare could be used when one of the other four drives needs to…..

It’s becoming hard to predict what Intel is going to do next, and for a number of reasons, that’s a great thing. I sound like a broken record at this point, but it seems clear to me that AMD’s Zen has really lit a fire under Intel’s bottom. We saw it with…..

With a fresh look at workstation graphics performance posted one week ago today, we had many of the usual benchmark suspects, but one page made a sudden introduction: deep-learning. Equipped with CUDA software libraries, we dove into a look at general matrix multiplication (GEMM) performance, as well as performance when churning through…..

It’s the end of an era. Not much of an era, but an era nonetheless. When Intel released its Core-X processors last summer, the lineup was complemented with a few bottom-feeders based around the Kaby Lake-X microarchitecture. This was in contrast to Skylake-X, which represented the actually enthusiast parts, from the six-core…..

There hasn’t been a great deal of movement on the ProViz side of the graphics card market in recent months, so now seems like a great time to get up to speed on the current performance outlook. Equipped with 12 GPUs, one multi-GPU config, current drivers, and a gauntlet of tests, let’s find out which cards deserve your attention.