Posted on January 30, 2019 10:39 AM by Rob Williams
At last summer’s Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, Intel teased its 28-core Xeon W processor that would cater to enthusiasts instead of the server market. With as much time as we’ve been waiting for this chip to become a reality, no one could blame you if you thought it’d never see the light of…..
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Posted on January 28, 2019 4:11 PM by Rob Williams
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote that Valve would be infusing Steam with some machine-learning. The goal is to improve the relevancy of the games you’re recommended, which is pretty important if you’re the type to browse stores to see what’s out there. Ultimately, Steam recently touted the many ways Steam…..
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Posted on January 25, 2019 11:54 AM by Rob Williams
With the release of Far Cry 5 under a year ago, Corsair introduced an ability with its iCUE software to allow a game to instantly adjust RGB lighting depending on the situation in a game. In FC5, the main menu would light up a PC in red, white, and blue, a tie-in to…..
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Posted on January 24, 2019 10:43 AM by Rob Williams
For as often as Intel talks about its RealSense camera technology, it hasn’t seemed to catch on as much as it probably should have by now. Initially, that was definitely due to cost, but over the years, costs have come down, and the tech has only gotten better. This week, the company…..
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Posted on January 24, 2019 10:08 AM by Rob Williams
At CES, AMD laid the groundwork for what’s to launch throughout 2019, which at the forefront includes the third-generation Ryzen series, dubbed the 3000-series. That will be followed by EPYC 2, and both platforms will support the latest features users crave, as well as some new ones, such as PCIe 4.0 (which…..
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Posted on January 24, 2019 9:31 AM by Rob Williams
Earlier this week, we reported on a leak which suggested NVIDIA could have a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti en route, despite how nonsensical the name seems to be, given what we’ve known of NVIDIA’s naming schemes up to this point. Nonetheless, the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark result seemed awfully convincing. Last…..
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Posted on January 22, 2019 9:00 PM by Rob Williams
The solid-state drive market isn’t quite as intense as some others, but vendors have been doing well to eke as much performance out of their drives as possible, and also continue bringing high-end performance to more palatable price-points. With its newest SSD, Samsung proves that it’s serious about keeping on top, and…..
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Posted on January 21, 2019 10:21 AM by Rob Williams
Hot on the heels of the launch of NVIDIA’s fourth Turing GeForce, RTX 2060, we’re seeing rumor of the company’s possible next GPU, and boy are things getting complicated. Before the new year, rumor hinted at the fact that a GTX 2050 would launch after the 2060. But perhaps it’d be called…..
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Posted on January 19, 2019 6:45 PM by Rob Williams
Following years of gamer outcry, NVIDIA finally released a GeForce driver earlier this week that opens up support for VESA’s Adaptive-Sync, used by every AMD FreeSync monitor. From the get-go, the company was clear that it didn’t think most FreeSync monitors fit the bill, and proved it by certifying only 12 of…..
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Posted on January 18, 2019 11:15 AM by Jamie Fletcher and Rob Williams
At last week’s CES, AMD announced that it would become the first company to support PCIe 4.0, with either its enterprise-bound EPYC or desktop-oriented Ryzen platforms. But what does PCIe 4.0 actually mean, and how would it impact you? Well, the truth is, we already have so much PCIe bandwidth available with…..
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Posted on January 18, 2019 10:00 AM by Rob Williams
Without too much fanfare, Agisoft released the latest iteration of its popular photogrammetry tool in recent weeks, effectively kicking off the next era of the company’s software. Since 2010, this software has been known as PhotoScan, but as of a couple of weeks ago, the transition to “Metashape” took place. Until last…..
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Posted on January 17, 2019 12:51 PM by Rob Williams
It’s been over seven years since we entered the PCIe 3.0 generation, so isn’t it about time for an upgrade? At CES last week, AMD announced that its next processors would be supporting PCIe 4.0, which would once again double our available bandwidth per lane. So, 2019 should be the year 4.0…..
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Posted on January 17, 2019 11:47 AM by Rob Williams
There are a number of things that can make me feel like time is flying by just a bit too quickly, and realizing that GOG is about to turn 10 is one of those things. I remember being so excited at the launch of the classic game-focused service, that I wrote about…..
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Posted on January 17, 2019 11:13 AM by Rob Williams
Deep-learning can be used for myriad things, and has the potential to improve products and solutions in all industries. Relevant to the Techgage audience, deep-learning has allowed NVIDIA to accelerate AI denoising in its OptiX engine, while on the gaming side, it’s begun to enable super-sampling quality at a lower performance cost,…..
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Posted on January 15, 2019 5:18 PM by Rob Williams
At last week’s CES, NVIDIA impressed many by announcing that it was going to begin supporting Adaptive-Sync monitors, complementing the G-SYNC support it’s offered since 2013. During meetings, the company was clear that many monitors sold as FreeSync fail to live up to the green team’s high standards, but whether or not…..
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Posted on January 15, 2019 4:15 PM by Rob Williams
Autodesk has today released Maya 2019, the latest iteration of its popular modeling and animation software. Included within are major improvements to performance, bolstered animation tools, and updates to Arnold renderer and Viewpoint 2.0, to name just a few things. Admittedly, the numbering scheme in Maya’s name is a little misleading, because…..
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Posted on January 15, 2019 3:32 PM by Greg King
With CES 2019 starting tomorrow, the announcements are coming in droves. One that caught our eye was Cooler Master. Introducing a range of products, from headsets to new keyboard models and mice, Cooler Master has placed a focus on wireless peripherals at this years CES. The first announcement was the MH670, a…..
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Posted on January 15, 2019 12:25 PM by Rob Williams
For some Steam fans, a quality update to the desktop client seems to be taking ages. Last year, we got our first real proof that change was coming with an update that overhauled the Steam Chat client, something that didn’t just bring a fresh coat of paint, but improved the mechanics under-the-hood.…..
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Posted on January 14, 2019 7:31 PM by Rob Williams
It’s beginning to feel like we’re entering a truly cross-play generation. For most of 2018, fans rallied against Sony for being a thorn in the side of the industry where cross-play was concerned. Games that should have offered cross-play support, didn’t, despite the fact that one of the first shining examples of…..
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Posted on January 13, 2019 9:15 PM by Rob Williams
There’s a lot about AMD’s soon-to-launch Radeon VII graphics card that’s intriguing. Announced at CES last week, this monstrous GPU bundles 3840 Stream cores along with 16GB of HBM2 memory that delivers 1TB/s of bandwidth. Based on VII’s specs, it’s easy to assume that the card is a repurposed 7nm Radeon Instinct…..
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Posted on January 10, 2019 2:16 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Audio seemed to have a great deal more focus this year at CES than in years past, with HyperX surprising us with some of its new products. While we saw the usual assortment of new peripherals, there is in fact still some interesting aural tech going on. The first thing that grabs your…..
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Posted on January 9, 2019 10:10 PM by Jamie Fletcher
On show at Corsair’s press event was an appearance by new acquisition, Elgato, maker of the numerous streaming and capture decks, as well as the more recent Stream Deck. Streaming has grown increasingly popular, with some making it their full-time job. However, there are numerous technical obstacles along the way that Elgato…..
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Posted on January 8, 2019 12:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
At CES 2019, Corsair showed off some its latest projects. Up first were three new mice to be released over the coming year, including a new wireless series that we’re going to see spread out into its own series. Slipstream took a fair bit of focus as it’s a project that Corsair…..
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Posted on January 7, 2019 6:51 PM by Rob Williams
You may not think of a car as being an “electronic”, but at the past few CESes, the automotive industry has been well represented. Even companies like Qualcomm have made a big impression on the market, and at this CES the company announced its third-generation Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit SoC – or rather,…..
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Posted on January 6, 2019 3:00 PM by Rob Williams
Leading up to CES, there were almost too many AMD leaks to even keep track of. I remember seeing mention of Ryzen 3000 series about a month ago, but the unlikeliness of a follow-up that quickly was so unbelievable that even AMD’s most ardent hopefuls weren’t naive enough to believe it was…..
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