Content and news by Rob Williams

For a bunch of reasons, AMD’s Radeon Vega Frontier Edition workstation GPU is an interesting beast. For starters, it’s the first GPU AMD’s released that bundles its Vega architecture, which in itself is interesting for a number of reasons. But also interesting is the fact that there’s an air and liquid-cooled version…..

The threat of requiring legitimate age-verification for porn sites has been looming for ages, and the UK looks to become one of the spearheads in cementing it into law. In the not-so-distant future, porn-seekers in the UK will need to haul out a credit card to verify their age, even if they’re…..

Being a PC gamer can be tough, sometimes. We’d love to store our 50TB worth of games on a single drive, but alas, no such solution exists. Well, it hasn’t existed until now, that is. Viking Technology, a company catering to the enterprise market, has just announced two new UHC-SILO SSD models, available…..

In advance of its launch next month, AMD has finally coughed up some pricing information for its hugely anticipated Ryzen Threadripper series – or, what I like to call “Ryzen on Steroids” (I don’t think AMD is going to adopt that one, though.) While rumors have shown full Threadripper lineups, the launch…..

If you’re tired of hearing about net neutrality, then try to envision a future where it doesn’t exist. That’s when you’re really going to feel the pain; when the internet you once knew as open is no longer. When ISPs will gain the right to charge you for access to your internet…..

As has become tradition, Amazon has just kicked off a massive summer sale it likes to call “Prime Day” – one that happens to be aptly named as an Amazon Prime subscription is required to take advantage. If you don’t have Prime, and don’t necessarily want it, you could sign up for…..

Some things in this world don’t serve much of a purpose, and Sony’s Destiny 2 “Limited Edition” PS4 Pro is one of them. What looks to be the result of a solid five minutes spent in meetings, this special PS4 Pro comes equipped with a Glacier White color scheme, which has been…..

Netflix fans who watch the service on their PCs have the right to be annoyed if 4K resolution is their target. Up until recently, the only way to watch 4K content on Netflix was to use a mobile or “smart TV” device that supports it. Even though the PC is as flexible…..

Can having extra monitors set up affect gaming performance on just one of them? That’s the question of the day, and one answered by redditor birthday_account. It’s not hard to assume why gaming performance may be affected, because after all, the graphics card needs to deliver pixels (even static ones) to those…..

Baidu isn’t too well-known on this side of the world, and being a Chinese search engine at its core, that’s not much of a surprise. However, much like how Google has worked on or created some impressive technologies, Baidu has done the same, but being a Chinese company, most of us in…..

Considering the fact that we’ve had solid-state drives for years that have been able to peak at about 500MB/s, it’s been downright appalling to me that 10Gbps Ethernet isn’t more popular in the home (or anything better than 1Gbps, for that matter). Our storage caught up, but our networking hasn’t. Of course,…..

At the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Shanghai, Qualcomm is showing off one of its latest wares: under-display finger print readers. A current smartphone trend has seen vendors focus a lot on edge-to-edge screens, which has relegated the finger print reader to the back of the device. Personally, I don’t like this…..

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to meet with Qualcomm’s Hugo Swart in Taipei, and it didn’t take long before I could see that he is a man that’s truly passionate about the future of VR, as well as AR. At that time, he spoke about XR (eXtended reality) – a…..

Hot on the heels of launching its hugely anticipated EPYC server processor lineup, AMD has now officially launched its first Vega-based graphics card, called Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. While the card doesn’t carry the “Pro” moniker of the company’s other workstation cards, Vega FE is in fact a pro card; one that…..

NVIDIA has been talking about autonomous driving for a number of years, ensuring automakers that its solution is the best one. Considering the fact that NVIDIA has also been hugely focused on deep-learning and artificial intelligence, and those things back up the smarts in Drive PX, it has a good case on…..

In 2011, I wrote that we were adding SPEC’s CPU2006 to our processor testing suite, and I admit that at that time, I had assumed that the next major iteration of the benchmark would be right around the corner. Welp, I couldn’t have been more wrong, as its successor has just shown…..

AMD’s 2017 so far has been action-packed, and we haven’t even entered the second-half of the year yet. Back in March, the company released its most ambitious desktop processor series in about a decade, called Ryzen. With it, AMD delivered incredible performance gains over its predecessor and suddenly became competitive with Intel…..

With Intel’s launch of Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X having just happened, we must ask: what’s next? As Jamie alluded to earlier, the beefiest Core X chips Intel has to offer will be coming out over the next couple of months, finishing off with the mammoth 18-core i9-7980XE at some point this fall…..

When news hit the web last week that Alienware’s Area-51 gaming PC would be packing AMD’s Threadripper processors, a rather important fact slipped under my radar: Dell is the exclusive OEM builder to have that privilege for the rest of 2017. That’s both good and bad. On one hand, AMD could use…..

Note: We have preliminary coverage of the AMD press event, with some specific details about the EPYC CPUs and the platform in general. When AMD launched Ryzen earlier this year, the company pulled off what at times seemed impossible: it delivered on its promises. We knew from the get-go that Ryzen’s IPC…..