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Tag Archives: gaming

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Thomas Ryan
Sep 6, 2016

AMD’s Radeon RX 460: A Review

Eight PCI-E lanes of pure pixel pushing power…

In this article we’ll be reviewing AMD’s Radeon RX 460 4GB.
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Thomas Ryan
Aug 9, 2016

ASRock’s Z170 Pro4: A Review

Copper, copper, copper…

In this article we’ll be looking at ASRock’s Z170 Pro4 motherboard which we’ve paired with Intel’s venerable i7-6700K.
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Thomas Ryan
Jul 1, 2016

Investigating Thermal Throttling and Undervolting on AMD’s RX 480

There’s a lot of mud going around; let’s clear the waters.

In this article we’ll be addressing concerns that the RX 480 is throttling in games due to the limitations of its reference cooling solution.
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Thomas Ryan
Mar 1, 2016

Investigating DirectX 12 CPU Scaling

Does core count matter in DirectX 12?

CPU core count does matter for gaming. It’s particularly important in DirectX 12 games as our testing in this article shows.
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 20, 2016

Synaptics Brings Fingerprint Sensors to Gaming Mice with IronVeil

Can gaming mice bring Fingerprint readers to PCs?

Today Synaptics is introducing a new fingerprint sensor aimed at desktop PCs.
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Thomas Ryan
Dec 22, 2015

Revisiting AMD’s Updated Frame Rate Target Control

If you don’t use Vsync and care about power consumption this is for you…

AMD introduced a feature called Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC) into its drivers with the launch of the Fury X.
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Thomas Ryan
Dec 19, 2014

MSI’s 970 Gaming AM3+ Motherboard: A Review

Quality motherboards from MSI’s Gaming series…

Today we’re looking at MSI’s 970 Gaming motherboard for AMD’s FX series of CPUs.
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Thomas Ryan
Dec 8, 2014

AMD’s Catalyst Omega Driver

The biggest driver drop of the year…

AMD is launching the Catalyst Omega driver or 14.12. Unlike normal Catalyst releases AMD is billing this Omega driver as the biggest release of the year.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 15, 2014

Analysis: Nvidia refocuses it’s Tegra program

No, not what they said in the analyst call, this is different

According to their latest quarterly analyst call, Nvidia has narrowed it’s Tegra program to just two markets.
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Thomas Ryan
Mar 18, 2014

AMD and Eidos launch the Mantle version Thief

And steal extra performance from the nether…

Eidos Montreal’s Thief is the second triple AAA game to add support for AMD’s Mantle graphics API and the first game to support AMD’s TrueAudio.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 18, 2014

ARM talks depth culling and 4K for mobile

Updated – GDC 2014: Two demos, two different implications for two different markets

ARM was showing off two graphical demos featuring Mali at GDC, one fairly tame the other technically interesting.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 5, 2014

Kingston gets in to the accessory business with HyperX cloud headphones

MWC 2014: Likely the first of many, and not a bad debut

Kingston had two new devices to show off at MWC, one evolutionary the other nothing you would expect from the firm.
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Thomas Ryan
Dec 13, 2013

Checking In On AMD’s TressFX 2.0

Maintain volume by varying thickness and detail…

With that feedback in mind AMD announced an update to its hair simulation technology, TressFX 2.0, at its developer conference in mid-November.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 11, 2013

DIY AMD Radeon R9 290X Heatsink Mod

Testing a brute force fix…

Codinghorror developed a solution for the R9 290X’s air flow problems by bravely taking a dremel to his brand new $550 graphics card.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 8, 2013

Is the Radeon R9 290X a noisy graphics card?

We take a look…

Comparisons have even been made to such GPU legends as Nvidia’s GTX 480 or the FX 5800 Ultra.
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