Posted on October 10, 2019 2:47 PM by Rob Williams
Since its launch eight years ago, Adobe’s Creative Cloud application has changed seemingly little. It’s always acted as a hub for installing the software Adobe licenses, like Photoshop and Illustrator, but over the years, it’s been iterated upon to deliver additional useful features and resources. That includes a section to brush up…..
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Posted on October 10, 2019 9:52 AM by Rob Williams
With a new update set to drop in a couple of weeks, Valve is going to be adding online support for any multiplayer game that’s tagged as local co-op, local multiplayer, or split-screen. The best part? Only one person needs to own the game, but with the caveat that the same person…..
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Posted on October 9, 2019 4:05 PM by Rob Williams
The past week has been pretty eye-opening for anyone following along with the massive amount of protesting that’s going on in Hong Kong, all supporting the fight for democracy. China has proven multiple times over that it has no patience when it comes to others not slinking around its draconian laws, and…..
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Posted on October 9, 2019 3:01 PM by Rob Williams
Following-up on the news that Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to the PC, Rockstar today has piled on even more information about what to expect. Part of that revolves around the goodies that the PC version in particular is bringing to the table, so if you’ve been waiting for juicy information,…..
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Posted on October 9, 2019 12:00 PM by Rob Williams
After lingering in the rumor mill for some time, AMD has officially launched its Ryzen 9 3900 and Ryzen 5 3500X processors. But – there’s a catch. Both of these SKUs are targeted strictly at the OEM and system integrator market, so chances are good that you’ll never find either of these…..
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Posted on October 9, 2019 9:00 AM by Jamie Fletcher
We’ve covered ModMics for a while now, and have seen the product change over time. Today marks some new arrivals into the product stack at Antlion Audio with the ModMic USB and ModMic Uni, as it attempts to simplify its product range, and at the same time fixes some of the last…..
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Posted on October 8, 2019 2:50 PM by Rob Williams
Following a bit of a wait, Noctua has finally launched its anticipated chromax.black coolers, painted in a sleek black with no RGB to be found anywhere. We first saw an iteration on these coolers at last year’s Computex, and the reason for their existence is simple: not everyone loves the beige/brown color…..
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Posted on October 8, 2019 1:05 PM by Rob Williams
Sony has announced that the next-gen PlayStation will be launching in time for Holiday 2020, and that it will officially be called PlayStation 5. While the name choice is unsurprising, it’s refreshing at the same time, since some other companies forego consistency for seemingly superfluous reasons. Microsoft is arguably guilty of it…..
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Posted on October 7, 2019 11:05 AM by Rob Williams
Last week, Intel unveiled its new Core X series of CPUs, something that should have happened today if not for certain websites taking it upon themselves to spoil each and every launch. While the Core X update is one of the biggest news items in this latest bundle, there’s also new Xeon…..
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Posted on October 7, 2019 9:00 AM by Jamie Fletcher
AMD is making available the next installment in its Radeon Navi GPU rollout with the release of the RX 5500 series. These GPUs will be first Navi GPUs to be released to the mobile market, as well as desktops. These GPUs will be released straight-to-AIB products, meaning no reference design restrictions, so companies…..
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Posted on October 4, 2019 12:25 PM by Rob Williams
It’s almost hard to believe, but it’s true: Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to the PC. For some Rockstar fans, this announcement is a little bittersweet, since the original RDR never came to PC, despite an immense outpouring of support from fans. Nonetheless, PC gamers who’ve been unable to play the…..
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Posted on October 2, 2019 8:13 PM by Rob Williams
The idea seems so simple: to let gamers play against (or with) each other regardless of the platform they’re on. Wide cross-play support has been a long time coming, but it really didn’t start to take off in a big way until a couple of years ago. In 2017, we wrote about…..
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Posted on October 2, 2019 6:24 PM by Rob Williams
We’ve already talked about Microsoft’s announcements revolving around updated Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models, but that’s far from where the company’s reveals have ended. At its New York press event, Surface creator Panos Panay said that he and the company didn’t know how to even talk about the Surface Neo and…..
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Posted on October 2, 2019 4:38 PM by Rob Williams
Microsoft’s Surface series has received one heck of a shot in the arm today. The company has managed to not only launch a big collection of new products, but have every single one of them demand attention. Let’s tackle the new laptops, starting with the Surface Laptop 3: The latest Surface Laptop…..
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Posted on October 2, 2019 10:00 AM by Jamie Fletcher
In a somewhat surprise announcement from Intel, details on its next range of HEDT processors have been released. Cascade Lake-X is an update to the long-running Skylake-based architecture, and is in large part an incremental update. It has many of the security protections and mitigations implemented, higher frequencies, more memory capacity, and…..
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Posted on October 1, 2019 1:30 PM by Rob Williams
With the major love AMD showed Borderlands 3 before and after its launch, we’ve been left surprised that the company hasn’t worked out a bundle deal with the game’s publisher. After all, there are new features to take advantage of on its newest Radeon Navi cards, such as image sharpening (which has…..
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Posted on September 27, 2019 11:25 AM by Rob Williams
As we talked about yesterday in our post taking a look at strong Zen 2 performance in Adobe Lightroom, we mentioned that we’ve been augmenting our test suite for the next set of CPU launches. Lightroom is one (re)addition that’s being made, while Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is another. While we plan…..
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Posted on September 26, 2019 5:30 PM by Rob Williams
In advance of the CPU launches from AMD and Intel set to happen over the next month or two, we’ve been updating and augmenting our respective test suite. Some preexisting tests like Premiere Pro and Corona Renderer have been bolstered, while some other new tests are being added – one of those…..
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Posted on September 20, 2019 1:00 PM by Rob Williams
Zen 2 holdouts who’ve been patiently waiting for AMD to launch its 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X are going to have to exercise their patience for another two months, as the company has officially pushed the date back. If this news burns, will some ointment in the form of a third-gen Ryzen Threadripper announcement help?…..
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Posted on September 18, 2019 3:55 PM by Rob Williams
After seeing what the first-gen EPYC brought to the table, and having known what improvements AMD was going to be implementing, the wait for the second-gen release seemed to take ages. But, the launch finally took place last month, and it included much fanfare from AMD itself, and a number of its…..
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Posted on September 13, 2019 2:19 PM by Rob Williams
After a long wait, Borderlands fans can finally jump into the latest game and indulge in whatever it is Pandora (and beyond) is ready to throw their way. As expected, both AMD and NVIDIA have new graphics drivers to greet the launch, with AMD offering an extra special bonus to owners of…..
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Posted on September 12, 2019 5:02 PM by Rob Williams
The enthusiast community seems to be in wide agreement that peripheral software is rarely great, and if people had the choice, most would avoid it. Yet, we’re in an era where everything from fan speeds to RGB colors are controlled by software. Unfortunately, that software almost always needs to be active the…..
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Posted on September 12, 2019 4:21 PM by Rob Williams
At the start of the year, Valve announced that it would be making some major changes to the Steam client going forward. Whether or not this renewed vigor for improvement was spurred by the insurgence of the Epic Game Store, we’re not sure, but we’d like to think most Steam fans would…..
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Posted on September 11, 2019 2:20 PM by Rob Williams
Overclocking records are broken all of the time, so it’s rare when a new result manages to grab more than the usual amount of attention. If you’re an overclocker who’s managed to breach a long-targeted clock speed, such as 6GHz on memory, that’s an example of a result that will definitely stand…..
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Posted on September 11, 2019 11:30 AM by Rob Williams
A couple of weeks ago, AMD posted Maya 2017 performance claims to its social media accounts, with us catching it on Twitter. Both AMD and NVIDIA regularly post similar things, but this one stuck out to us more than usual, because it didn’t actually make sense to us. Here’s the performance chart:…..
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