Hardware

AMD to the rescue for Nvidia RTX 2000 and 3000 GPUs, as fudge for DLSS 3 games turbocharges frame rates to an eye-opening level

Owners of older Nvidia RTX graphics cards can now benefit from FSR 3 frame generation in games that support DLSS 3, thanks to a smart new mod.Your first reaction to that may be confusion around FSR support being brought in for Nvidia DLSS 3 games, and how that figures. So, the simplest way to look…

AMD to the rescue for Nvidia RTX 2000 and 3000 GPUs, as fudge for DLSS 3 games turbocharges frame rates to an eye-opening level Read More »

Vision Pro software bugs and issues won’t discourage me from buying one

The Apple Vision Pro was released just over a week ago, and I would’ve gotten mine by now if it were available in Europe. Well, I still could buy one from a scalper for a relatively low markup. The big caveat of owning a Vision Pro made for the US market is that it won’t…

Vision Pro software bugs and issues won’t discourage me from buying one Read More »

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G Review: Zen 4 APUs with RDNA3 Graphics

Disclaimer February 2nd: While the benchmark results in this review are accurate where applicable, due to a highlighted issue with the Skin Temperature-Aware Power Management (STAPM), our results reflect the matter that AMD hasn’t disabled STAPM for the desktop Ryzen 8000G APUs. Once a fix has been provided, we will re-test and provide further updates in…

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G Review: Zen 4 APUs with RDNA3 Graphics Read More »

AMD Unveils Ryzen 8000G Series Processors: Zen 4 APUs For Desktop with Ryzen AI

While it’s been touted for many months that AMD will release APUs for desktops based on Zen 4, rumors and wishes have finally come to fruition during AMD’s presentation at CES 2024 with the announcement of the Ryzen 8000G family. The latest line-up of APUs with Zen 4 cores and upgraded Radeon integrated graphics consists…

AMD Unveils Ryzen 8000G Series Processors: Zen 4 APUs For Desktop with Ryzen AI Read More »

Early pricing of RTX 4070 Super and other Nvidia GPU refreshes fills us with hope – our only worry is stock levels

Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Super graphics cards – and other incoming Super refreshes – have already been spotted priced up at US retailers ahead of their imminent launch.The RTX 4070 Super represents the majority of the products now listed at retailers such as Newegg and Best Buy in the US, which isn’t surprising, as those are…

Early pricing of RTX 4070 Super and other Nvidia GPU refreshes fills us with hope – our only worry is stock levels Read More »

SSD pricing set to ‘skyrocket’ for 2TB or bigger models, so buy now or you could regret it

SSDs going up in price has been a strong thread via the rumor mill for some time now, and we now have another suggestion that price tags could shoot up for higher capacity consumer drives.Tom’s Hardware reports that according to an industry source, 3D NAND packages that consist of four and eight NAND modules are…

SSD pricing set to ‘skyrocket’ for 2TB or bigger models, so buy now or you could regret it Read More »

Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super could be almost equal to the RTX 4080 and a seriously good GPU… but with one potential catch

Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Ti Super is the next refreshed graphics card in the firm’s trio of revamped Super editions, releasing next week, and we’ve just caught sight of some leaked benchmarks.Benchleaks is the source of many benchmark leaks (you’d never guess) on X (formerly Twitter), and has unearthed OpenCL and Vulkan scores from Geekbench 6…

Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super could be almost equal to the RTX 4080 and a seriously good GPU… but with one potential catch Read More »

Nvidia RTX 4090 scams keep popping up – and the latest one is a shameless ‘FrankenGPU’ rip-off bought on Amazon

Scammers duping PC gamers with fake RTX 4090 graphics cards isn’t anything new, but what is new is that we’ve seen a couple of these in January 2024 now, when the incidents are normally a more scattered affair – and the latest one was in the US.Tom’s Hardware reported that a hardware repair expert on…

Nvidia RTX 4090 scams keep popping up – and the latest one is a shameless ‘FrankenGPU’ rip-off bought on Amazon Read More »

AMD’s new driver finally fixes a nasty bug where some RDNA 3 GPUs guzzle too much power

AMD’s latest graphics driver release has apparently resolved a longstanding problem with RDNA 3 desktop graphics cards using way too much power at idle, and unnecessarily running up bills a bit with certain PC setups – those running high refresh rate (or resolution) monitors, or multiple displays.This is according to testing carried out by our…

AMD’s new driver finally fixes a nasty bug where some RDNA 3 GPUs guzzle too much power Read More »

LaCie Rugged Mini SSD Review: Power-Efficient Flash Storage at 20 Gbps

LaCie’s portable storage drives have enjoyed a loyal consumer base, particularly among creative professionals valuing both performance and product design / appearance. After Seagate’s acquisition, the brand has continued to cater to this segment with new products. The company has both USB 3.2 Gen 2 and Thunderbolt 3 SSDs under the LaCie brand, and is…

LaCie Rugged Mini SSD Review: Power-Efficient Flash Storage at 20 Gbps Read More »

Shopping Cart
Scroll to Top