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on (#4ANJ7)
Season's greetings, good gerbils. I had a rather nasty RSI-induced event recently. My upper back has been pretty tightened up, and things came to a head a couple days ago when I felt the tip of my thumb going numb. Knowing the possible causes, I freaked out more than a little. One visit to my friendly chiropractor, and I'm now back on track for a good recovery. Keep in mind, folks, when you're dealing with anything involving muscles, tendons, and spine, don't wait too long before ringing up a professional. Anyways, here's today's selection of PC hardware deals. ...Read more...
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on (#4AJQS)
Can you really call something a leak if the company released it on purpose? AMD's just released a slide deck for its investors, and buried in those slides are a few tiny nuggets of interesting information. Let's take a quick peek into the red team's path ahead. ...Read more...
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on (#4AJQV)
A couple months ago, I teased an upcoming story about my brand new solar panel adventure. I'm happy to report that the system has now been up and running for almost a week. And dude, it's kind of blowing my mind. Unfortunately, I'm sorry to say that my full write up is at least a month out. I need more time to collect more data, and sun, before I tell my tale. I can't help but tease a little more, though...
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on (#4AJKE)
A couple months ago, I teased an upcoming story about my brand new solar panel adventure. I'm happy to report that the system has now been up and running for almost a week. And dude, it's kind of blowing my mind. Unfortunately, I'm sorry to say that my full write up is at least a month out. I need more time to collect more data, and sun, before I tell my tale. I can't help but tease a little more, though...
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on (#4AGCQ)
Cinebench: Regardless what you think about the software, you know of it. It's ubiquitous in hardware reviews across the web because, if nothing else, it's extremely easy to automate. The version of Cinebench that you're likely to find in CPU reviews to date is Cinebench R15, released in September 2013. (Yeah, more than five years ago.) It's time for a new version, and Maxon has responded with Cinebench R20. ...Read more...
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on (#4AEA1)
Devil May Cry 5 and Tom Clancy's The Division 2 are both really close to release, while Apex Legends is still burning up the player-count charts. I haven't played The Division 2 yet, but both of the others are killer games. Nvidia, never one to rest on its laurels, just released GeForce driver version 419.35 which, by no coincidence, is "Game Ready" for all three of the aforementioned titles.
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on (#4AE56)
Howdy folks. I've been catching up on the latest episodes The Grand Tour, and I'm having loads of fun. I particularly enjoyed the episode in China, which is funny by itself but also kind of mind-boggling. The country is still a bit of a mystery to most of us Westerners, and it's quite amazing to see how the massive infusions of cash are transformed into massive infrastructure. I'd definitely recommend you watch that one. In the meantime, take a gander at our selection of PC hardware deals. ...Read more...
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on (#4ADHA)
Apparently, my name is derived from the Latin word "colto" and it means "to be a tool on reality TV"
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on (#4AC00)
In recent years, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has developed this bizarre habit of releasing specification updates that are often tremendous steps forward but are obscured by confusing, misleading, or downright terrible naming. With the announcement of the USB4 (no space!) specification, the group has reached the apex of powerful features/confusing nomenclature.USB4 is a big ...Read more...
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on (#4AB86)
The eagle-eyed laptop lovers over at NotebookCheck spotted a very interesting note at Dell's website. When inspecting the specifications of the G5 15 gaming laptop, the machine's USB Type-C port is labeled as "USB-C DisplayPort / USB-C Thunderbolt" with an asterisk after. Clicking that asterisk reveals the box below. ...Read more...
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on (#4A66W)
G'afternoon, folks. My tiny terror HTPC is now alive and well, and I'll be making excellent use of it by chewing through my gigantic backlog of movies and shows. I've gone the extra mile and slapped a Core i5-8600 in it in preparation for a future graphics card upgrade, and jeez, that thing is snappy. The Core i7-6700K in my main box suddenly feels a little inadequate. I must now upgrade. I should not have done this. Anyway, check out our selection of hardware deals....Read more...
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on (#4A47M)
In an effort to give consumers a chance to see the value of variable monitor refresh rates in person, AMD developed a new demo called "Oasis." Like many benchmarks, it's set up to run a loop when you hit Play; you can toggle FreeSync on and off throughout the run so you can have a quick and clear visual representation of what FreeSync offers.We got our hands on the demo. It has a nice-looking UI, with intuitive controls. Once it loads (it takes a minute or two), you'll see a full-screen rendering of a woodsy scene that includes some old stone structures. The demo starts ...Read more...
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on (#4A44B)
We know that there were so many of you gerbils who were absolutely infatuated with the edgy gamer styling of recent cases but were put off by the lack of a 5.25" drive bay. Sharkoon comes to your rescue with the VG7-W mid-tower chassis.
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on (#4A1QD)
Folks who sift through our SSD deals every week will no doubt be familiar with the Micron 1100. That drive was primarily intended as an HDD replacement for OEMs building low-cost PCs, but it found its way into the channel as a high-value offering for folks who want a bunch of solid-state storage. The price per dollar might continue to improve considering Micron's latest offering, the 1300. ...Read more...
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on (#4A0PQ)
ECC memory support is only one of many reasons that someone building a workstation might base it on a Xeon processor. The specialized motherboards that they require include other features, such as formal support for hardware virtualization and advanced remote management features. If you've been looking for all of that in cherry flavor instead of blueberry, you might have been struggling. However, ASRock would like you to know that it has just the motherboard for you in the ASRock Rack X470D4U. ...Read more...
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on (#49Z9A)
Do you like fans, gerbils? Do you like Fractal Design? Do you like RGB LEDs? Scratch that last question; I know you love RGB LEDs. Fortunately for you, Fractal Design just launched its Prisma series of lighted case fans. There are red, green, blue, white, and addressable-RGB versions in 120-mm and 140-mm sizes. ...Read more...
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on (#49YRJ)
Good afternoon, gerbils. It seems that all the talk lately in tech is about bendy phones that fold over. The screen technology therein is quite fresh, and there are likely to be some growing pains, but it's not hard to envision a future where your phone, tablet, or even perhaps laptop are all the same device. For now, though, there are multiple competing designs, and we'll have to see what the market at large thinks is the best one. While you're mulling over that important question, here are sweet hardware deals for you. ...Read more...
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on (#49WWJ)
Last month, AMD promised that "all Radeon software updates [would] support all Ryzen Mobile laptops" by the end of the first quarter of this year. Normally we'd expect that to mean somewhere around March 31, but AMD's jumped ahead of schedule and surprised us with Radeon Software 19.2.3, which offers full support for Ryzen chips with Radeon Vega graphics on both desktop and mobile platforms.That means that you can install the new 19.2.3 driver package on mobile and desktop discrete Radeon chips going back to the Radeon HD 8000 series, as well as ...Read more...
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on (#49WAC)
If you go by sales data, most folks on using PCs are on laptops, yet there's really no standardized laptop battery testing methodology. Sure, we have our own testing style, but it differs from, say, Anandtech's, and their differs from Tom's Hardware's...and so on. Underwriter's Laboratories (UL), the group that purchased Futuremark back in 2014, just announced that PCMark 10 is getting two new benchmarks—one of which is a battery life test.UL says that the PCMark 10 battery life benchmark will be a realistic simulation of practical, day-to-day usage ...Read more...
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on (#49PMF)
After weeks of rumors and leaks, the newest member of the Turing family has arrived. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti became available today, promising performance on par with the GTX 1070. And yes, that’s "GTX" not "RTX," because although these little fellas are based on the Turing architecture, they lack some of the high-end, future-looking technologies like ray-tracing and DLSS.The RTX 1660 Ti is available from a laundry list of AIB partners, including (in alphabetical order) Asus, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galax, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY, and Zotac. Prices start at $279 and go up from there depending no features. Want ...Read more...
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on (#49PMG)
Howdy, enthusiasts everywhere. Around here (Portugal, for those unaware), it's that time of the year again. Samba rhythms occasionally echo through the air from rehearsal warehouses. Orders of plumes from faraway places make their way over here for the construction of ever-elaborate costumes. It's Carnaval season, and soon enough the town will fill up with silliness, dancing ladies, and drumming men. Before the festivities start, I've collected juicy PC hardware deals for you. ...Read more...
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on (#49P6C)
The much anticipated (we guess) GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is now available. It's a fairly straightforward product, but it brings with it a new GPU, the TU116, which is fabricated on TSMC's optimized "12nm" FinFET+ process. That whole chip is enabled in the GTX 1660 Ti, and that lends it 24 streaming multiprocessors containing 1536 shaders, 96 texture units, and 48 render output units (ROPs). The TU116 hooks up to 6GB of GDDR6 memory over a 192-bit bus, just like the GeForce RTX 2060. However, the memory on these cards runs at 12 Gbps instead of the 14 Gbps of the RTX lineup.
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on (#49KVD)
If you've shopped for SSDs recently, you're probably aware of the Adata Ultimate SU800. It's a capable SATA SSD that's been available lately for killer prices. Adata must reckon folks will be happy to find even lower SSD prices, though, because now the company is releasing an SSD to slot directly underneath the SU800. Appropriately, it's called the Ultimate SU750. ...Read more...
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on (#49HJQ)
I probably don't have to tell you that Intel is preparing to launch a series of discrete graphics products next year. You are probably also aware that Intel launched a Twitter account for its fledgling graphics division late last year. Today, that account tweeted an invitation for users to #JoinTheOdyssey:...Read more...
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on (#49HD9)
Like many in the PC hardware enthusiast community, I dig Noctua coolers. I liked my NH-C14 so much that I used it in four separate builds, and I only replaced it because I simply didn't need that much cooling anymore. However, if you were buying an AMD Ryzen system and wanted to use a Noctua cooler, you'd have to either buy one of the models specifically marked for socket AM4 (eg, the NH-D15 SE-AM4) or contact Noctua for a free upgrade kit. The company announced today that this is no longer the case: AM4 mounting kits are now included with all Noctua CPU coolers.
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on (#49F5P)
A fair day to thee, good gerbils. If you're looking for an interesting article to read, may I suggest Colton Westrate's "The death of Windows Phone and the five stages of mobile grief"? It's a rather amusing read about one idiot man's quixotic quest to hold onto a dead phone operating system or a silly reasonable facsimile thereof. Go ahead and give it a scan. In the meantime, check out our selection of contemporary hardware deals. ...Read more...
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on (#49EWF)
I'm not a betting man, but even so, I'd probably wager that a healthy portion of gerbils have had their hands on a Logitech MX518 mouse at some point. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a few of you are clutching a long-serving MX518 as you read this. If you have fond memories of your MX518, or if you ran your rodent ragged and need a capable replacement, rejoice: Logitech is reviving it. ...Read more...
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on (#49F5R)
I took the liberty of adding the critical words "chip," "ice," and "cream" to today's theme. You're welcome.
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on (#497D6)
Greetings, good gerbils. I'm in the process of speccing out a home theater PC so that I can make more frequent use of the big-ass TV I have in the living room. I occasionally plug my laptop into it, but it's often a pain in the neck to connect the cables and deal with oddities like automatic video brightness compensation and whatnot. It's high time to fix this issue, and I'm always happy to order new hardware for a good cause. Speaking of exactly that task, here's today's selection of deals. ...Read more...
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on (#49740)
Have you ever seen a case and thought, "I like that layout, but I hate that front panel." Sure you have. We all have. Thermaltake is looking to step around those complaints with its new Commander C series of mid-tower ATX cases that come in six different variations. The Thermaltake Commander C31, C32, C33, C34, C35, and C36 are all exactly the same case, aside from the front panels. ...Read more...
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on (#494N2)
Another day, another driver release. This one's a big one, though: Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.2.2 is the first driver to officially support the Radeon VII graphics card. It also adds support for some new games, including some we talked about yesterday: Far Cry New Dawn, Metro Exodus, Civilization VI's Gathering Storm add-on, and Crackdown 3. Did you know Crackdown 3 actually existed? Me neither, but it comes out tomorrow along with Far Cry New Dawn and Metro Exodus. ...Read more...
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on (#494GG)
I thought I'd take a day off from sensical Shortbread shots.
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on (#492PT)
I don't have to tell this to an audience of gerbils, but rumors of PC gaming's death have been greatly exaggerated for a long time now. Sure, there's awesome console-exclusive titles that we don't get to play, but a lot of those will find their way to the PC eventually. Even disregarding those, though, we've got plenty to keep us occupied in the coming months.
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on (#49286)
Microsoft released Windows 10 build 17763.316 yesterday, and the HoloLens was front and center. It's mentioned in the note atop the release notes page, and Microsoft makes it seem a little urgent that current HoloLens devices get the update forthwith. In a recursive Windows Update update, this Windows update is pushing an update to the Windows Update Client so that Windows Update is more reliable when it henceforth updates Windows on HoloLens.It's not coincidental that the debut of the HoloLens 2 appears to be right around the corner. It's hard to believe it's been more than four years since the first HoloLens demos were shown, and it seems like every year there's an expectation that the second generation of the immersive headset is nigh. The fourth time's the charm, though; it's widely believed that Microsoft is ...Read more...
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on (#4922C)
Barely more than a week after the last Geforce driver release, we're back with another one. GeForce driver version 418.91 is "Game Ready" for Metro Exodus, and it also includes game-specific support for Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) on Battlefield V. It's timely, given that just yesterday I was bemoaning the lack of games that make use of the GeForce RTX cards' special sauce in this very space.
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on (#490CM)
Epic Games, which makes Fortnite, also makes the Unreal Engine that powers it. (Remember when Unreal was more than an engine?) Epic just released the the first preview build of Unreal Engine 4.22, and among a great number of other changes and updates, the new build includes preliminary support for Microsoft's DirectX Ray-tracing (DXR) extensions to the DirectX 12 API.
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on (#48ZNX)
Howdy, folks. The internet at large is probably running out of ink discussing the merits of the Radeon VII to death. We've recently taken a good, hard look at it, and one outstanding question is how it fares when gaming at 2560x1440, a notch down from the 4K resolution with HDR that we originally tested it with. We've just answered that question, and you can take a good look at the results. When you're done, be sure to take a look at today's selection of deals. We've got a few smokin' hot ones. ...Read more...
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on (#48ZNZ)
AMD releases Radeon Pro drivers on a quarterly schedule, and being that we're a month into 2019, the time for the next release was nigh. Indeed, the company just dropped Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q1. This driver brings the usual batch of performance upgrades and additional certifications, as well as a few new features for the red team's blue cards. ...Read more...
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on (#48R52)
I'm always of two minds about everything-but-the-kitchen-sink sorts of peripherals. On one hand, I can't stand fussy tools, and I'm not particularly swayed by bright, colorful lights. Give me an input device that delivers comfort, high quality, and long-lasting durability, and I'm a happy camper. On the other hand, it's fun to see what a company can find to cram into a format that's decades old, and what users find to do with those features. And so it is with the Cooler Master MM830 mouse. ...Read more...
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on (#48NXY)
Update, 2/7/19, 3:37pm CT: Added AMD's statement about graphics card availability below.Have you read our review of AMD's latest and greatest ? While we may not have showered the card with lavish praise, the Radeon VII is still the fastest single-GPU Radeon card that has ever existed. It's also the fastest 7-nm GPU to date. (Hah.) AMD said the card would be available at ...Read more...
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on (#48NSN)
Greetings, folks. I'm going to keep it short and sweet today. AMD's finally released a high-end graphics card since the Vega 64, and we've taken a good, hard look at it. Is it good enough to rock Nvidia's high-end dominance? Our data tells all. After you've read the review, be sure to check out the selection of spicy deals below. ...Read more...
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on (#48JWM)
Another day, another graphics driver update. This one is the AMD Radeon Software (this is such a long name) Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.2.1 (finally), and it's set to provide support for a trio of titles. Apex Legends is the latest battle royale game to grace gamers, but judging by the extremely high engagement after just a couple of days, you probably already knew that. In its first eight hours, the game reached 1 million players, according to Respawn's social media posts. Odds are that quite a few gerbils are among them. The cross-platform game is available on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, so this update is obviously for the PC folks who happen to also be rocking out with an AMD graphics card. ...Read more...
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on (#48H04)
Greetings, folks! I've started doing a little home improvement—well, paying for it, anyway. The first project was getting a new kitchen exhaust fan and under-cupboard lighting shining on the countertop. Both implementations are a swimming success, but there's a major catch: the better lights now quite handily illustrate how some of the appliances and assorted bits of kit need a good scrub. Alas, house work is never really done, is it? Never mind that anyhow, here are some sweet, juicy PC hardware deals. ...Read more...
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on (#48GVM)
Greetings, folks! I've started doing a little home improvement—well, paying for it, anyway. The first project was getting a new kitchen exhaust fan and under-cupboard lighting shining on the countertop. Both implementations are a swimming success, but there's a major catch: the better lights now quite handily illustrate how some of the appliances and assorted bits of kit need a good scrub. Alas, house work is never really done, is it? Never mind that anyhow, here are some sweet, juicy PC hardware deals. ...Read more...
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