Content and news by Rob Williams

Futuremark has just released a brand-new update to its ultra-popular 3DMark benchmark which introduces ‘Time Spy’, a test that looks to the past and future. One goal of Time Spy is to make people feel a little nostalgic, as there are a number of different cues in the benchmark that act as…..

If you’re addicted to taking screenshots of your game, then you need to pay attention to one of NVIDIA’s latest GeForce features: Ansel. Named after famed American photographer Ansel Adams, NVIDIA’s Ansel can safely be considered the “ultimate screenshot” tool, and as of right now, it’s supported in Mirror’s Edge Catalyst.

It’s a secret (hopefully) to no one that government agencies like the FBI would love nothing more than to know what the country’s citizens (and others, for that matter) are up to at all times. Edward Snowden’s leaks three-years-ago made that abundantly clear. You should also know that these agencies have stooped…..

Using Linux can feel liberating at times; it’s an OS without certain constraints of other OSes, and it goes without saying that it’s a lot more open. But, it does bring with it a number of caveats, with a big one being that some developers treat it as if it’s not worth…..

If you think that it’s impossible for a company like NBC Universal to prove victorious in the battle against BitTorrent pirates, then you see things very differently than the company does. That’s proven by the fact that it’s just upped the ante in its fight, with a newly-granted patent for a technology that…..

This may come as a surprise to no one, but one of the biggest reasons people cancel their streaming subscriptions is advertisements. Consequently, Netflix’s absolute lack of advertisements has helped it retain most of its subscribers from month to month. It’s no secret that advertising helps fuel a multitude of markets, from magazines…..

GIGABYTE, Corsair, and Intel joined forces a couple of weeks ago to show off its latest (and future) products in the beautiful area of Napa Valley. Yes – there was wine to be sipped, as well as a slew of tech products to be taken in. Want to know what’s en route from these companies? Look no further.

When solid-state drives first hit the scene a number of years ago, mechanical hard drive companies had nothing to fear: the storage space just wasn’t there. The most popular SSDs out of the gate hovered around the ~80GB mark, so clearly, they were best-suited for the operating system and applications – not…..

Our graphics drivers have supported the Vulkan API for nearly half a year now, but unless you’re a developer or a The Talos Principle fan, then you haven’t been able to take much advantage of them. That changes today, as id Software has released a brand-new patch for its latest mega-hit DOOM that enables…..

Who knew what Minecraft would become when it first hit the scene over seven years ago? At first, the game just seemed like a fun digital sandbox, allowing people to build really cool creations with a simple collection of different blocks. Since its original launch, though, Minecraft has expanded to include many more…..

AMD has just delivered on its promise to issue a new Radeon driver that tackles the power consumption concerns many have had surrounding the company’s latest graphics card, the Radeon RX 480. This non-WHQL driver is considered a ‘hotfix’, and is versioned 16.7.1. As covered just the other day, AMD doesn’t deem…..

Samsung is the first memory vendor out-of-the-gate with Universal Flash Storage memory cards, or UFS for short. UFS cards are widely expected to replace the microSD cards many of us have been using for quite some time, whether it’s because we’ve plugged one into an MP3 player, a camera, or even our smartphones.…..

Surprise! Hot on the heels of AMD’s Radeon RX 480 launch, NVIDIA has a rabbit to pull out of its hat in the form of the GeForce GTX 1060. Alright, ‘surprise’ might be a bit of an understatement, as this has been the worst-kept secret in the GPU world in quite some…..

With the release of its Core P5 last fall, Thermaltake really hit the ball out of the park for those who want a truly unique-looking PC. The company’s no stranger to crafting such chassis, as its Level 10 (and GT counterpart), designed with the help of BMW Motorworks, proved wildly successful. Compared…..

Since the release of AMD’s latest top-end graphics card, the Polaris-based Radeon RX 480, a lot of attention from the community has been focused on an alleged problem where the card can pull too much power out of its PCIe slot. In gist: a GPU shouldn’t pull more than 75W out of the…..

The moment many PC gaming enthusiasts have been waiting for is here: AMD’s first Polaris based GPU has arrived. Much of what makes the Radeon RX 480 an alluring card isn’t a secret, as AMD itself has been talking about it quite extensively, so let’s just get right down to business: what can AMD’s latest $200 Radeon muster?

We learned last month that NVIDIA’s latest top-end GeForce is a ‘force’ to be reckoned with, but what about its littler brother, the GTX 1070? It’s been no secret what this card essentially is : a TITAN X successor. While many successors usually perform more than 5% better, though, they don’t usually cost less than half as much at the same time. Intrigued?

If there’s one thing that most people could agree on being an absolute nuisance, it’s ticket scalpers – that special few who don’t mind making a living by screwing others over by snapping up dozens of tickets with the sole purpose of selling them for super-inflated prices. It used to be that people would arm…..

At its GPU Technology Conference held this past April, NVIDIA announced its most powerful GPU ever, the Tesla P100. We were told at that time that the card would push 5.3 TFLOPs of double-precision performance and 10.6 TFLOPs of single-precision, but little did most people realize at the time (including me), those…..

A couple of months ago, my sister’s PC of five years gave up the ghost. If five years doesn’t sound too impressive for the lifespan of a PC, it should help to know that the PC was actually a hand-me-down, having been used by my mother for a handful of years prior…..