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AOC Launches 35-inch 120Hz G-SYNC Ultrawide ‘AGON’ Gaming Monitor For $899

Posted on April 9, 2018 2:41 PM by Rob Williams
AOC AGON AG352UCG Ultrawide G-SYNC Monitor

Just over two years ago, we took at look at Acer’s X34 Predator, a 34″ G-SYNC ultrawide monitor that retailed for $1,299. That’s a bit of a big pill to swallow, but the monitor ultimately proved worth it if you could swing it. I still use the monitor for most of my…..

Severe T-Mobile Austria Website Bug Fixed After Company’s Social Team Touted ‘Amazingly Good’ Security

Posted on April 7, 2018 2:10 PM by Rob Williams
T-Mobile Austria at T-Center

It’s the weekend, so there’s no better time to hear a great story about awful security, and even worse company responses. After someone questioned T-Mobile Austria about customer passwords being stored in plaintext, a couple of company social reps revealed their complete misunderstanding of computer security, and perhaps how community relations should…..

Intel Brings 6-Core Chips To Laptops With New Core i9 CPUs

Posted on April 5, 2018 4:47 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Intel-8th-Gen-Core Mobile

Late last year, we saw the launch of Intel’s 8th generation Core series CPUs with Coffee Lake on desktop system, bringing with it Intel’s first core-count boost on a mainstream part in nearly a decade. It’s now the mobile sector’s turn for a new wave of chips, which includes all new 6-core…..

Dell & Alienware Release Slew Of New Notebooks, All-in-one Desktops

Posted on April 4, 2018 12:30 PM by Rob Williams
Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 (Early 2018)

If you’ve been on the hunt for a new notebook or all-in-one, a slew of new announcements out of Dell and Alienware hints that your wait so far hasn’t been in vain. This week, both brands are rolling out some super-sleek notebooks, and even some desktop AIOs. Oh, there’s some new monitors,…..

Adobe Switches On Native Support For AMD’s Radeon Pro SSG In Premiere Pro CC

Posted on April 3, 2018 12:01 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Adobe Premiere Pro Support For AMD Radeon Pro SSG

After two years of being talked about, showcased, developed, and in a way, finding a market, AMD’s Radeon Pro SSG will soon get its first official show of support in the media and entertainment workhorse, Adobe Premiere Pro, as part of the new Creative Cloud update that’s being rolled out. The Radeon…..

Far Cry 5 Has A Frustrating Co-op Implementation

Posted on April 2, 2018 12:05 PM by Rob Williams
Far Cry 5 - Joseph Seed's Cult

There’s a lot to love about Ubisoft’s latest FPS, Far Cry 5, but as I found out over the weekend, there’s also a lot to be annoyed over. Well, in actuality, it’s really only one thing: the lack of progression for your co-op partner. This is a design flaw that Ubisoft readily…..

Arm & NVIDIA Partner Up For IoT Deep Learning Devices

Posted on March 27, 2018 2:15 PM by Jamie Fletcher
NVDLAandARM 1522031562

Deep learning, artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, these are all terms that are quite common in the research and enterprise sectors, but you should expect to see them in more mainstream devices going forward. While autonomous vehicles are at the forefront of much of AI and deep learning’s focus, don’t be…..

NVIDIA Packs 16 Tesla V100s Into New DGX-2 To Deliver 2 PFLOPS Of Deep-learning Performance

Posted on March 27, 2018 10:25 AM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA DGX-2 cropped

For the past year, those looking to get explosive deep-learning and general GPU compute performance at their desk have seen NVIDIA’s DGX Station as an attractive choice, with 4 powerful Tesla V100s under-the-hood to deliver half a petaflop of deep-learning and artificial intelligence performance (and over 60 TFLOPs of single-precision). Enterprise customers would…..

NVIDIA Unveils New Flagship Quadro: GV100 With 32GB Of HBM2

Posted on March 27, 2018 9:40 AM by Rob Williams
Quadro GV100-3qtr-front-left-9 1521854114

It’s a given that NVIDIA will have a lot to talk about at its annual flagship GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, and this year’s event is no exception. We’re going to talk about some of the announcements separately, but to kick things off, I want to talk about the announcement…..

Chaos Group To Debut “Over 80% Faster” V-Ray GPU Rendering Architecture At GTC 2018

Posted on March 22, 2018 6:12 PM by Rob Williams
Chaos Group V-Ray GPU Render (dabarti credit)

Chaos Group’s V-Ray renderer has become a de facto option over the years, both with its ADV CPU-bound and RT GPU-bound options. Soon, that latter option is going to get a whole lot better. In fact, that’s so much the case, that a name-change is in the cards: “V-Ray GPU”. It’s not…..

Qualcomm To Release Snapdragon 845-powered VR Developer Kit In Q2

Posted on March 21, 2018 12:18 PM by Rob Williams
Qualcomm SVR845 Snapdragon Logos Mockup

Qualcomm has taken advantage of the ongoing Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to usher in its next-generation VR development kit, starring the just-released Snapdragon 845 SoC. As always, Qualcomm’s goal with its VRDKs is to provide developers with the ideal setup for producing and experiencing VR content. The better the development…..

AMD Publishes New Videos To Teach You The Ins And Outs Of Radeon Overlay & WattMan

Posted on March 21, 2018 9:43 AM by Rob Williams
AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Render

We posted just the other day about a series of videos Qualcomm produced to highlight the benefits of its Snapdragon-powered notebooks, and clearly, video is a great way to get the message across (surprised?!). To that end, AMD is very proud of its Radeon Overlay and WattMan tools, and has created two…..

NVIDIA’s Ansel & ShadowPlay Highlights Find Their Way Into Handful Of New Games

Posted on March 21, 2018 9:28 AM by Rob Williams
ShadowPlay Highlights in Star Wars Battlefront II

It’s that time of year again – when a game developers conference directly precedes NVIDIA’s own technology conference. There’s never a question about a supposed battle between both GDC and GTC (well, aside from telling someone “GTC” and they thought you said “GDC”), as both events complement each other very well. That’s…..

Qualcomm Highlights Key Snapdragon-powered Notebook Benefits With New Videos

Posted on March 20, 2018 5:31 PM by Rob Williams
Qualcomm Snapdragon Powering Windows 10 Notebook Feature

As the first Snapdragon-powered “always on” notebooks begin to ship to customers, Qualcomm has decided to tackle some confusion that’s permeated through the market about Arm-based platforms, versus x86 ones. This isn’t about software compatibility (since these Snapdragon notebooks can run x86 applications just fine), but rather other benefits you may not…..

Latest CTS-Labs Interview Bolsters Belief Of Targeted Attack On AMD

Posted on March 16, 2018 12:28 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Ryzen 1800X and GIGABYTE AB350-GAMING 3

As we wait for something to become of the ousting of 13 vulnerabilities related to AMD’s Zen-based processors, a new in-depth interview helps bolster our belief that something isn’t quite right with CTS-Labs. The company couldn’t even be bothered to establish an address before taking on a microprocessor giant with insinuations of…..

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Released – Faster CPU & Better Wi-Fi

Posted on March 15, 2018 6:50 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Top View

The venerable Raspberry Pi 3 just got an update with the Model B+ (instead of just a Model B). It keeps the same $35 price as all previous generation Model Bs, but now with a faster CPU, better wireless capabilities, and some other new features ready to be exploited, such as PoE.…..

Google And LG Team Up To Develop 5500×3000 AMOLED VR Display

Posted on March 15, 2018 4:07 PM by Rob Williams
HTC Vive Pro HMD

When HTC announced its Vive Pro at CES a couple of months ago, VR fans had reason to be excited. It’s clear that current solutions are great, but they leave a lot to be desired, and the same could even be argued about the Vive Pro – it’s a big leap, but…..

AMD Security Insinuations Likely A Targeted Hit On Company’s Stock

Posted on March 14, 2018 10:52 AM by Rob Williams
Dell EMC PowerEdge R7425 AMD EPYC Server - Under the Hood

Remember the time when security vulnerabilities were taken seriously? When those vulnerabilities weren’t given cute names and their own branding with logos? When companies were given more than 24 hours to react to accusations? Yesterday, a company unknown to anyone, CTS-Labs, came out of nowhere with a vulnerability website, AMDFlaws.com, and an…..

US Presidential Order Prevents Broadcom From Acquiring Qualcomm

Posted on March 13, 2018 12:57 PM by Rob Williams
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 SoC

Following a frustrating few months of Qualcomm battling Broadcom in its attempt at a hostile takeover, none other than the President of the United States decided to step in like a playground hero and break things up. Officially, Broadcom’s pursuit of Qualcomm is over, seemingly entirely to do with concerns of national…..

ASUS Doles Out The Features With Its ProArt PA32UC 4K HDR Professional Monitor

Posted on March 11, 2018 2:57 PM by Rob Williams
ASUS ProArt PA32UC Professional Monitor

If you’re in the market for a new professional monitor, then you’ve got some great timing. ASUS’ new ProArt PA32UC caters to professionals from top to bottom, and that includes with the price. This 4K monitor will set you back $1,999, but for those who take their image quality seriously, the best…..

Getting Rid Of Intel’s “ITBM Driver Not Available” Error In Windows 10

Posted on March 11, 2018 2:30 PM by Rob Williams
Intel ITBM Driver Issue - Disable Service Dialog

Update May 2018: We can confirm that this trick works both with Windows 10 RS3 (build 16299) and RS4 (April Update, build 17134). I run a handful of Intel PCs in the lab, but only one gives me a nagging problem that’s driven me nuts for months. On an Intel X299-based platform, every…..

Microsoft Announces Upcoming Support For AMD’s FreeSync On Xbox One & Xbox One X

Posted on March 11, 2018 1:20 PM by Rob Williams
Samsung CHG70 4K FreeSync Display

With both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 equipped with AMD graphics, it’s long been assumed that FreeSync support wouldn’t be an impossibility. After all, these consoles are more PC-like than ever, something Microsoft in particular has proven with its Xbox platform being integrated with Windows. Well, support is now official for…..

Valve Goes Back To Its Roots, Decides To Begin Making Games Again

Posted on March 10, 2018 3:09 PM by Rob Williams
Half-Life 2

This isn’t the freshest news, but it’s important enough to revive. Earlier this week, it was discovered that Valve has not just one game in the works, but multiple. The problem? We only know about the first, and nothing about the rest. So, before you get your hopes up for an Episode…..

HP’s ENVY x2 Snapdragon Notebook Available For Pre-order, Has Already Sold Out Once

Posted on March 10, 2018 1:09 PM by Rob Williams
HP Envy x2

It feels like we’ve been talking about Qualcomm’s Snapdragon-enabled “all day” notebooks for quite some time, so I’m finding it hard to get through my head that the first products are finally almost out the door. That includes HP’s ENVY x2, which sells for $999, and is expected to ship by March…..

Oculus Revives Rift Headsets With Patch, Offers $15 Store Credit To Say “Sorry”

Posted on March 8, 2018 5:56 PM by Rob Williams
Oculus Rift

Gaming has sure come a long way. It used to be that electricity was the biggest requirement for gaming, but nowadays, we have internet requirements to contend with, and of course sporadic updates that can ruin what was supposed to be your prime game time. And let’s not forget our peripherals that…..

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