Posted on October 24, 2017 1:25 PM by Rob Williams
It’s almost hard to believe, but Destiny 2’s PC version has now launched. To help celebrate, we’re going to be playing the game for many hours – although how many hours exactly, I’m not quite sure. I’m getting old, after all, and some 12 GPUs need to be benchmarked with the game for a…..
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Posted on October 23, 2017 1:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
This is one of those things that’s been a long time coming, yet still can’t get here soon enough. While the IoT revolution is lauded as both a blessing and a curse, one critical aspect has had more than its fair share of news coverage, and that’s security. Arm (yes, it’s Arm…..
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Posted on October 20, 2017 2:19 PM by Rob Williams
G.SKILL’s portfolio is so chock-full with high-speed memory, it’s really hard to keep track of it all. Without fail, the company continues to shoot us press releases announcing even faster speeds, and often, the touting of new world records. Today’s release, though, isn’t exactly typical. It’s not of full-sized DDR4 that we’ve…..
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Posted on October 20, 2017 12:40 PM by Rob Williams
When I first caught the rumor that NVIDIA was planning to release a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti this fall, my naive mind once again thought it was probably false. After all, there’s barely any room in between the GTX 1070 and GTX 1080, so a 1070 Ti would be the result of…..
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Posted on October 19, 2017 12:45 PM by Rob Williams
AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper is an interesting beast for a number of reasons. The most interesting aspect to me is its value proposition. Upwards of $999 for a CPU is undeniably pricey, but despite that top-end price, Threadripper still delivers a more competitive part than Intel (something price changes could change in an…..
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Posted on October 19, 2017 11:50 AM by Rob Williams
When so many of the available top-end graphics cards on the market are all sorts of bulky, I get excited whenever a company decides to do their best to whittle down the size, offering the same performance in a smaller form-factor. While the need for this kind of thing is really quite…..
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Posted on October 17, 2017 5:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Cooling and looking cool have always been a part of the DIY PC gaming community. NZXT would like to fulfill both those obligations with its new product launches; the H-series cases for the looks, and the GRID+ V3 for the cooling. Clean lines, mesh filters, flat surfaces, and of course, tempered glass…..
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Posted on October 13, 2017 7:28 PM by Rob Williams
Something that’s been on the back of my mind ever since the console version of Destiny 2 launched has been when Bungie would begin talking about the PC version. I was surprised the other day when I received an email trying to hype it up – but it didn’t come from Bungie.…..
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Posted on October 13, 2017 6:40 PM by Jamie Fletcher
How much RGB does someone need in a PC? Corsair thinks ‘all of it’ is an appropriate answer, as it releases a new set of PC fans with 16 LEDs packed into each one. The new LL Series of fans are for those that want to look cool, but sound cool too……..
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Posted on October 12, 2017 6:50 PM by Jamie Fletcher
ModMics from Anlion Audio have gained in popularity over the years. We’ve taken a look at a couple of different versions, including the two different omni and unidirectional ModMic 4s, and the more recent ModMic 5. These microphones have mostly been targeted at gamers with a taste for high-end headphones, but now,…..
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Posted on October 11, 2017 12:50 PM by Jamie Fletcher
It amazes me the selection of cases available today. I don’t think I know of a single company that makes the venerable beige box anymore (that’s not a challenge to go find one, either). Cooler Master has refreshed its range of chassis designs, including a $50 one with a tempered glass panel.…..
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Posted on October 10, 2017 10:31 AM by Rob Williams
Prefacing the launch of the new Middle-earth: Shadow of War, which releases today, NVIDIA shot over word that the game has become the latest to support its Ansel screenshot technology. That in itself isn’t what impressed me, although it was nice to see. What impressed me was the list that followed –…..
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Posted on October 10, 2017 8:58 AM by Rob Williams
It’s a good thing that the market is chock-full of chassis of all shapes and sizes, because it means if you look hard enough, you’re going to find a chassis that’s fine-tuned just for you (and well, everyone else with the same taste). Who’s Cooler Master’s MasterBox MB600L for? I’d wager it’s…..
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Posted on October 6, 2017 5:30 PM by Rob Williams
When AMD launched its Radeon RX Vega series, I decided to go about the launch a different way: by focusing on compute more than gaming. Ultimately, that turned out to be a great idea, as per my memory, that review turned out to be the most popular review we’ve ever had of…..
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Posted on October 5, 2017 6:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Seagate has released its latest tear of hard drives for the performance segment, looking at not just high-capacity, but high speed, too. The drives fall under Seagate’s IronWolf range for network storage, and Barracuda Pro for desktops, extending them to 12TB, up from 10TB. Both drives are helium filled to allow for…..
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Posted on October 5, 2017 11:27 AM by Rob Williams
Every once in a while, a NAS comes along that stops me right in my tracks (admittedly, not that hard since I’m usually sitting), and QNAP’s TS-453BT3 is definitely one of those. This NAS is in all regards top-end, and has a price tag to match. Based on a single etailer, the…..
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Posted on October 5, 2017 10:34 AM by Rob Williams
Whenever we see one product that’s scaled down from another, it’s always fun to wonder if it’d be possible to unlock extra capability, and in effect, increase the value. Overclocking could help increase the value, but that’d still pale in comparison to being able to add two additional cores to a CPU,…..
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Posted on October 4, 2017 4:42 PM by Rob Williams
The latest title in the mainline Forza series has just released, and sticking to tradition, it’s simply called Forza Motorsport 7. What makes this release really special is that it’s the first full Forza Motorsport release that’s available for the PC. While the game likely runs at 60 FPS on the Xbox One…..
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Posted on October 4, 2017 12:25 PM by Rob Williams
I am such a sucker for Bungie’s Destiny, that I can’t be happy simply playing it. I need to benchmark it, too (OK, maybe not a huge surprise if you follow the site regularly). When the PC beta rolled around, I threw 11 GPUs at it, and last year, I included the…..
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Posted on October 2, 2017 4:59 PM by Rob Williams
In the lead-up to the launch of its 8th-gen Core processors later this week, Intel has dealt with a lot of flack for the fact that its brand-new Coffee Lake processors will not be compatible with outgoing motherboards. On the surface, it’s easy to understand that ire, because after all, Coffee Lake…..
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Posted on October 2, 2017 2:47 PM by Rob Williams
Sticking to its promise of delivering bootable NVMe RAID support to every owner of an X399-equipped motherboard, AMD has today released the update necessary – much to the chagrin of Intel, I’m sure. Currently, Intel’s best implementation of RAID NVMe requires a license key, the use of specific drives, and is primarily…..
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Posted on September 25, 2017 4:20 PM by Rob Williams
A couple of months ago, Intel launched its (then) top-end 7900X, a 10-core chip that somehow deserved a new, much grander moniker: Core i9. At the time, I wrote that since last year’s top-end 10-core model, 6950X, was also an i7, it made no sense to see this year’s 10-core called anything…..
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Posted on September 25, 2017 11:30 AM by Rob Williams
Following-up on the launch of its 8th-gen Core processors for notebooks last month, Intel today reveals its desktop complement. I admit; it doesn’t even feel that long ago that the i7-2600K came out, and the i7-4770K? It still strikes me as a modern CPU. But here we are, looking at an 8th-gen…..
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Posted on September 20, 2017 12:06 PM by Rob Williams
Proving that some series are just not meant to die, Ghost Games, along with beloved publisher EA, are soon to release the twenty-third iteration of Need for Speed, dubbed Payback. The title doesn’t leave much to the imagination about what to expect from the story. Payback, due out on November 10, features…..
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Posted on September 18, 2017 4:29 PM by Rob Williams
As covered last month, NVIDIA’s Ansel screenshot technology makes its debut in a sports game through Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2018, or PES 2018 for short. So far, the game has been enjoying some good reception from fans, but hopefully those fans playing on the PC and running a GeForce graphics card decide…..
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