Content and news by Rob Williams

To advance progress on its goal of making its community a welcoming one, Twitch this week rolled out an updated set of guidelines – some of which are are throwing some fans into rage mode. If this were an infomercial, it’d have to begin with, “Forget everything you know about slipcovers Twitch streaming!”,…..

Gamers might be wondering what NVIDIA’s been up to since we’re still waiting on the next major GeForce launch, but the company has been doing anything but resting on its laurels. In fact, its efforts in datacenter, automotive, and of course, gaming, led NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) to have an explosive financial quarter to…..

Considering the fact that NVIDIA’s Pascal hit the GeForce scene nearly two years ago, it’s impressive that we know so little about its follow-up at this point. When Volta launched, and resulted in the Tesla V100, it seemed likely that the architecture would naturally gravitate towards the GeForce side. Of course, that…..

The technology world can be a lot of fun to watch sometimes, because you really don’t know what’s going to happen. Earlier this week, Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) shot over a second unsolicited acquisition proposal to Qualcomm, and to date, there’s been no response from the San Diego native. That could be due to…..

AMD’s Radeon Pro series has just found another place to call home: the inside of HP’s ZBook 14u and 15u notebooks. These mobile workhorses are not targeting the high-end crowd, but HP promises to deliver more than enough performance to prevent frustrating roadblocks regardless of the kind of work you’re tackling. For…..

Three years after the launch of its first Xeon D processors, Intel is following-up with its second-gen take. These SKUs come to us in the form of the D-2100 series, and all are based on the Skylake-SP microarchitecture. A lot of polish has been provided with this latest gen, with quad-channel memory…..

It’s only Wednesday, but it’s already been an interesting week for power supplies. Yesterday, we wrote of voice capabilities Thermaltake’s added to its iRGB line, and today, we see something a little… well, even more grandiose. Not everything needs RGBs or to be liquid-cooled, but if you’re looking for any excuse to…..

Products like Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant have helped prove that artificial intelligence can enhance our lives when used in the right way. Today, we can use our voices to set alarms, fetch the latest news and sports scores, order some food, get back to someone on a dinner date, and now,…..

AMD has enjoyed good momentum in the server market since it began its EPYC journey last summer, but today, the company’s enterprise clout has been given a sweet boost with news that Dell EMC is releasing three PowerEdge servers sporting the best tech AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) has to offer. The three SKUs…..

It’s still not clear when the first GDDR6-equipped graphics cards will hit the market, but we at least now know that they’re kind of en route at this point. SK Hynix, a company that was one of the first out the door with HBM2, has just updated its catalog to reflect the fact that GDDR6…..

Since it made its original offer in December, Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) hasn’t taken its sights off of Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM). In fact, the company has only become more aggressive, tackling the acquisition from every angle to convince audiences that it’d work out. The offer in December was valued at $70 per share,…..

Late last week, Square Enix released a Final Fantasy XV benchmarking tool, and for many reasons, fans had reason to be excited. FFXV isn’t just going to be the best-looking FF game on PC, it could become one of the most visually stunning games, ever. HDR can help with that, along with…..

If you’re not familiar with cryptocurrency or mining, we have some great news: you don’t need to be. In this article, we’ll take you through the basics, and show you how you can get up and running mining with NiceHash. Before long, you’ll be putting your typically idle hardware to work, to earn you a chunk of change each and every day.

Whether you’re looking to upgrade or build a new PC, or simply happen to be a peripheral freak, Corsair pretty much has you covered this CES. We’re tackling peripherals in another post, so for this one, I am going to focus on the components that Corsair announced outside of its press briefing.…..

It still feels a little hard to believe, but both AMD and Intel offer the enthusiast market their own take on a 16-core chip. Remember when quad-cores seemed overkill for desktops? At the top-end, the CPU you choose can greatly affect your workload for better or for worse. So, let’s see what these beefy chips are made of.

Games like PUBG often present two scenarios for becoming enraged: suffering the fate of a cheap kill, or managing to get an amazing kill and then realizing no recorder was running. NVIDIA feels that pain, which is why it’s developed ShadowPlay Highlights. Let’s see how it works with PUBG, and review some humiliating deaths!

A couple of weeks ago, Qualcomm gathered a few hundred press and analysts from around the globe and put them in the same room to talk about the company’s future. A huge part of that future involves 5G, and many at Qualcomm were excited to talk about the potential. It sure didn’t…..

A little over a week ago, we wrote about AMD’s plans to deliver an open source Vulkan driver for Linux. Today, that driver has risen to the surface as AMDVLK, allowing any distro maintainer the ability to grab and compile the code for inclusion. If you’re a regular end-user wanting to test…..

Rewards programs in the PC hardware world are far from uncommon, so it’s a little surprising that ASUS hasn’t had one on offer by this point already. Nonetheless, if you’re a Republic of Gamers fan, and either regularly purchase RoG components or at least lust over them, ASUS’ new “Elite Rewards” (available…..

Our friends over at Gamers Nexus have been playing around with their new NVIDIA TITAN V graphics card a lot, to the point where if the card had feelings, it’d undoubtedly feel violated. As per usual with a top-end card, Steve’s decided to take the stock cooler off, and make his own…..