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AMD Ryzen 4000-series Notebooks Launch To Great Response

Posted on March 30, 2020 2:40 PM by Rob Williams
Acer Aspire 5 (A515-44) Notebook

In some ways, it’s hard to believe that AMD launched its first Ryzen CPUs only three years ago. Out-of-the-gate, the first-gen series impressed, and little did we realize at the time, things were only going to be getting better. The second-gen launched with nice iterations, and then the third-gen launched last summer…..

Steam Sets 23.4M Concurrent User Record, CS: GO Responsible For 1.1M

Posted on March 29, 2020 4:15 PM by Rob Williams
Steam Concurrent Players Record (March 29, 2020)

With COVID-19 forcing so many of us to self-isolate, it was inevitable that the world’s networks would take a good beating, and start setting some new records. One service that has been enjoying some extra load is Steam, which has been setting multiple records for itself over the course of the past…..

Maxon To Host Virtual NAB Show April 20 – 23

Posted on March 24, 2020 3:41 PM by Rob Williams
Maxon Virtual NAB Show 2020

Like a countless number of shows slated for this year, the annual NAB show in Las Vegas has been canceled, leaving many participating companies wondering where to go from here. For Maxon, its next move wasn’t too complicated, since for the past decade, the company has supplemented its live NAB appearance with…..

Computex Moves Its 2020 Event From June To September

Posted on March 24, 2020 2:50 PM by Rob Williams
Computex 2020

With the effects of COVID-19 in full swing, the world feels far different today than it did just two weeks ago, and especially one month ago. As mentioned yesterday, we would have been at NVIDIA’s latest GTC this week had it gone ahead as planned. Instead of canceling, NVIDIA decided to take things…..

NVIDIA’s GTC Digital 2020 Kicks Off March 24

Posted on March 23, 2020 5:13 PM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA GTC 2020 Art

It was a little over a month ago when we were preparing our travel for NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference, and to say that a lot has transpired since would be a great understatement. Many have felt that their lives have been turned upside-down, and with self-isolation, the situation can become tedious really…..

Valve’s VR-bound Half-Life: Alyx Launches To Great Reception

Posted on March 23, 2020 4:22 PM by Rob Williams
Half-Life Alyx

It’s still a little hard to believe, but the Half-Life series has just introduced its latest release, following a thirteen-year hiatus. While every previous Half-Life has focused on delivering experiences through our monitors, Half-Life: Alyx exclusively uses VR to immerse the player in a way traditional gaming cannot. This is great for…..

AMD Puts Some Mainstream 3rd-gen Ryzen Processors On Sale, Includes Xbox Game Pass Offer

Posted on March 13, 2020 12:45 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Packaging - Left Side

AMD has reached out to let us know of some sweet deals that have hit most of the third-gen Ryzen mainstream processor lineup (Threadripper not included). On the lowest-end, a $25 savings can be found, while up top, $50 is being shaved off. That particular savings means the $499 12-core 3900X can…..

Latest Destiny 2 Season Launches, But Not Without Some Troubles

Posted on March 11, 2020 7:00 PM by Rob Williams
Destiny 2 Shadowkeep

In January, we wrote about the ever-growing distaste for the direction Destiny 2 has taken over the last year, especially with regards to releasing content that forces players to jump in because it will be arbitrarily removed from the game later. At that time, players still had a new season to look…..

Borderlands 3 Steam Pre-load Begins With 50% Off Sale

Posted on March 10, 2020 7:08 PM by Rob Williams
Borderlands 3 Thumb

Following the usual round of intense hype, Gearbox released Borderlands 3 to the Epic Game Store this past September. Since then, it’s sold well enough to become 2K Games’ fastest-selling game ever, selling 50% more than BL2 did during its 5-day launch window, and ultimately breaching $1 billion in sales. As for…..

AMD’s RDNA 2 Architecture Will Bring Variable Rate Shading And Accelerated Ray Tracing To Radeon

Posted on March 6, 2020 3:23 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Graphics Card 4

We’ve been hearing about ‘Big Navi’ for a couple of months now, and at AMD’s latest Financial Analyst Day, the company divulged plenty of solid information about what we can expect. At Navi’s launch last summer, we surmised that hardware accelerated ray tracing wouldn’t make it into RDNA until about the third…..

Blender To Soon Launch ‘LTS’ Builds, Announces Plans For Version 3.0 In Summer 2021

Posted on March 2, 2020 12:41 PM by Rob Williams
Blender 2.8 in Windows

The free and open-source Blender has been around for twenty-six years, but over the past handful, it’s begun to accelerate the amount of respect it receives, and the number of people who integrate it into their workflows. Unlike most commercial software, we’ve seen Blender continually innovate at a super-fast pace. It was…..

AMD Radeon Users Should Grab 20.2.2 Adrenalin Driver For Bevy Of Bug Fixes

Posted on March 2, 2020 11:56 AM by Rob Williams
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT - Thumbnail

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about AMD seeking feedback from those who’ve been experiencing black screen bugs on Radeon graphics cards. While the issue largely affects those using Navi-based GPUs, there have been cases of the black screen (and other related) bugs being detected on older cards as well. Thankfully,…..

Intel’s 10th-gen Core Series Hitting The Rumor Mill Hard

Posted on February 20, 2020 1:30 PM by Rob Williams
Intel Core i9-9900KS

There’s so much news of Intel’s 10th-gen Core series processors floating around, that it’d be easy to assume that they’re already available on the market. That’s not the case, but there seems to be little that’s been kept secret. Earlier this week, there were a bunch of engineering samples that went up…..

Can’t Hit Memory XMP Speeds On AMD AM4? Try Hard Resetting The EFI

Posted on February 20, 2020 11:50 AM by Rob Williams
AMD AM4 X570 Techgage Test Rig (Thumbnail)

Since the launch of AMD’s third-gen Ryzen processors last summer, we’ve found ourselves running into a higher than the usual number of memory configuration issues on the AM4 / X570 platform. We’re not alone, as a simple Google search can reveal, and the worst of it is: we’ve found many users who’ve…..

NVIDIA Fully Reveals Cyberpunk 2077 GeForce RTX 2080 Ti – With Fewer Than 200 Made

Posted on February 17, 2020 12:45 PM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Cyberpunk 2077 Edition - Standing Up

Following-up on its teaser of a Cyberpunk 2077-infused GeForce yesterday, NVIDIA has today taken the veil off, and revealed everything there is to know about this special release. And… it does in fact pay to read about it beforehand, because if you are prepared to head to Amazon or Newegg to score…..

NVIDIA Teases Cyberpunk 2077 Limited Edition GeForce Card

Posted on February 16, 2020 1:19 PM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA Cyberpunk 2077 Teased GPU Picture

Over at Twitter, the official Cyberpunk 2077 account posed a simple question to NVIDIA, asking about the possibility of a limited edition graphics card. Clearly, some coordination went on in the background in advance, because NVIDIA replied quickly, ultimately giving us a teaser image of said limited edition card. Naturally, team green…..

Costly Parts Ensure At Least $450 USD Price Tag On Sony’s PlayStation 5

Posted on February 14, 2020 1:45 PM by Rob Williams
Sony PlayStation 5

With the launch of each new game console, companies like Microsoft and Sony need to scrutinize an incredible number of details, including the retail cost for their units. As hardware advances, each new generation brings along the fear that prices are going to increase, and at least with the PlayStation 5, that…..

Experiencing Black Screens With Radeon? AMD Wants Your Feedback

Posted on February 13, 2020 3:30 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Graphics Card 4

Over the past couple of months, we’ve noticed an increase in the number of complaints revolving around AMD’s Radeon graphics drivers. In particular, a notorious black screen bug has been plaguing some users for a while, though it’s not the only one. Even after multiple driver releases, users continue to see bugs…..

Corsair Releases Updated SCIMITAR Gaming Mouse & Huge MM500 3XL Mouse Pad

Posted on February 13, 2020 11:45 AM by Rob Williams
Corsair MM500 3XL Mousepad

For gamers who demand a lot of flexibility from their peripherals, Corsair’s SCIMITAR RGB Elite gaming mouse is worth a look. Proving that not all gaming mice are built alike, this SCIMITAR bundles in seventeen progammable buttons, twelve of which are located on the same side as the thumb rest on this…..

AMD Releases $399 Radeon Pro W5500 Workstation Graphics Card

Posted on February 11, 2020 10:25 AM by Rob Williams
AMD Radeon Pro W5500 Workstation Graphics Card

Following-up on its first Navi-based Radeon Pro release from November, of the W5700, AMD has just pulled the veil off of the second entrant: the $399 Radeon Pro W5500. Where’s the W5600? Well, considering the RX 5600 XT for gaming just released weeks ago, we can expect it to translate itself for…..

NZXT Introduces New Z-3 Series AIO Coolers, Updates Its X-3 Series

Posted on January 28, 2020 2:20 PM by Rob Williams
NZXT Kraken Z73 AIO Cooler

NZXT has today introduced five all-in-one liquid CPU coolers, three of which fall into an updated X-3 lineup, and two that belong to the brand-new Z-3 series. The X-3 release is the more modest of the two, reflecting some minor upgrades that are still appreciated. NZXT’s updated Kraken X73 and X63 AIO…..

AMD Ryzen Threadripper Availability Seems Strong, Not So Much For Intel’s Core X-series

Posted on January 28, 2020 1:30 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Third-gen Packaging and Intel Core i9-10980XE Engineering Sample (Thumbnail)

Since both Intel’s 10th-gen Core X-series and AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper processors hit the market back in November, availability has been a little hit-or-miss. We’ve been paying attention to some etailers these past few weeks, though, and it seems like AMD has been doing well with availability, with both of the new Threadrippers…..

Time-limited Content Can Make Playing Destiny 2 Feel Like Work

Posted on January 28, 2020 12:00 PM by Rob Williams
Destiny 2 Shadowkeep - Moon Surface

Following a hiatus of about two years, I returned to Destiny 2 about a month ago. Before that hiatus, I found myself bored beyond belief in a game I expected to unreasonably love. I put many hundreds of hours into the original Destiny, and while I churned through a year worth of…..

Report Suggests Red Dead Redemption 2 More Than Doubled Sales Once It Launched On Steam

Posted on January 24, 2020 2:55 PM by Rob Williams
Red Dead Redemption 2 - Shootout

Ever since Epic launched its game store, the company’s worked hard to make sure people flock to it with the help of free games, and exclusives. On the exclusives front, Borderlands 3 is one of the most major examples of a game that have helped many discover EGS, and will continue to…..

Corsair Adds AMD CPUs and GPUs To Its VENGEANCE PC Line

Posted on January 24, 2020 2:11 PM by Rob Williams
Corsair VENGEANCE 6182 - Side View

When we caught up with Corsair at CES a few weeks ago, we inquired whether or not AMD CPUs would be making an appearance in its PCs anytime soon. On display were not just the ONE PC and Origin PC’s own, but also Corsair’s VENGEANCE rigs. Unlike the ONE PC, which is…..

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