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Using the crazy quality settings at 1080p we find that the R9 390 is a whopping 24% faster than the GTX 970 when comparing the results from the normal test. By adding the R9 390 to the GTX 970 the average frame rate hit 51.5fps, a 65% performance boost which is quite impressive. However, R9 390 owners who add a GTX 970 to their system stand to gain just 56% additional performance, but the average frame rate will hit 60fps....

For the above results we turned the game’s resolution down to 1280x720 (720p) and reduced the quality settings to ‘high’. This allowed the GTX 980 to render up to 155fps with the Core i7-4960X. The Core i7 processor models we tested delivered between 147 and 155fps while the Core i5s were good for 141 to 144fps. The AMD FX-8350 was 26% slower than the Core i5-3470 and 30% slower than the Core i7-4770K....

Fan site Duke 4 has a solid summary of the 4chan thread where the intel originated, which has since been archived. According to the poster, nearly every chapter in the game is present in some sort and a lot of it is playable. Most of the weapons are also functional, save for the chainsaw and the freezer. All of the content from the E3 2001 trailer is included, although this isn’t the E3 2001 build....

Elon Musk is known for his controversial takes posted on Twitter, but the Tesla billionaire recently made a statement that clarifies his intentions with the social media platform he’s trying to acquire for a whopping $44 billion. This week, Musk appeared in a video alongside European Commissioner Thierry Breton where he expressed his support for things such as the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). With the DSA, European regulators will soon force tech giants to moderate the content posted on their platforms more aggressively to combat disinformation and prevent personal harm to individual users....

To continue the assembly line example, robotic arms are typically fitted with whatever is needed for that section of the line. It could be a wielder or a large pincer for gripping a door. Claws and robotic hands with fingers are great for picking up things like a box, a cup, or a car door. What they suck at is lifting soft or irregularly shaped objects such as a plant or fragile glass tube....

The overclocked Core i3-6100 delivered an impressive 17% performance boost over its former self, rendering 225.3fps, just 2fps shy of the Core i5-4430. The overclocked Core i3-6100 was able to outperform the overclocked FX-8320E in the second pass test, while it was still slower in the first pass test. Still, we are seeing around a 15% performance boost here. The last encoding test uses Video Master Works and here the overclocked Core i3-6100 took just 789 seconds, a 14% improvement over its default configuration and slightly faster than the Core i5-4430....

The Pentium J2900 averaged 63.1fps in the HandBrake encoding benchmark, 3% faster than the Celeron J1900, 9% slower than the Athlon 5350 and 34% slower than the Celeron G1820. The Pentium J2900 roughly matched the Athlon 5350 in the x264 HD Benchmark with 14fps in the first pass test. To complete the TMPGEnc Video Master Works encoding test the Pentium J2900 took 1011 seconds, 7% faster than the Celeron J1900, 4% slower than the Athlon 5350 and 47% slower than the Celeron G1820....

We figured something was wrong from the get-go so we contacted Nvidia and they suggested using the newer 344.75 drivers, which were given to us prior to being made public – initially we were using the 344.65 WHQL. The new driver was pressumably tweaked for Far Cry 4, though the release notes don’t make any performance claims. Alas, with the suggested release installed, we didn’t receive a single extra frame....

BEC attacks usually target businesses or individuals that perform legitimate transfer-of-funds requests. They involve compromising the official emails account of high-ranking executives or suppliers through social engineering, phishing, or network intrusion. Once the criminals have access, they message the company’s account department requesting a large transfer of funds. As the emails come from official sources, the requests often raise no suspicion. It’s not just fund transfers that the hackers target....

AMD has had a rollercoaster in the CPU section of the Steam survey these past few months following a lengthy run that saw constant increases. Team red’s share dipped in December, went back up in January, and has now fallen again, albeit only by -0.04%, meaning it stays above the 30% mark with a 30.92% share. But are we seeing more of Alder Lake’s influence on the chart? It was another excellent month for Ampere in the GPU section, especially the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, which we love....

Official Android app support in Windows 11 got plenty of attention during Microsoft’s reveal of the feature last year. The capability, however, was notably missing from the first official release of the OS and could only be found in Insider builds, until now. The latter is also currently in ‘Preview’ state, meaning more finishing touches can be expected before a wider rollout for the global Windows 11 user base. Moreover, those looking to sideload Android APKs can do so now after installing this update....

With 7.1 million units shipped, foldables represented just 0.5 percent of the overall smartphone market share in 2021. IDC projects foldable phone shipments could reach 27.6 million units in 2025 with a market value of $29 billion. Should that forecast come to fruition, foldables would still only account for 1.8 percent of the smartphone market in 2025. Foldable smartphones are slowly but surely gaining traction with consumers, thanks in large part to efforts by Samsung....

The significant gain in performance between Kaby Lake and Kaby Lake-R U-series parts, with a 15W TDP, is all down to two factors: double the amount of cores and threads, along with higher boost frequencies. It’s remarkable that Intel has been able to make this upgrade without harnessing a new process node or architecture, but I’m glad they have. The result is the largest year-on-year improvement to ultraportable CPU performance in quite some time....

Fractal Design says that following user reports of an increase in CPU temperatures, it has halted sales of its Lumen AIO-series watercoolers and is issuing a voluntary recall. The company writes (via Hot Hardware) that the temperature spike is caused by soldering material used in the aluminum radiator, as well as impurities introduced during manufacturing. One or both of these issues can cause a reaction with the chemical composition of the coolant, which can lead to sediment build-up that gets caught in the fins of the CPU block....

The GTX 650 Ti Boost performed exceptionally well in Tomb Raider averaging 48.7fps, which was 13% faster than the Radeon HD 7850 and 41% faster than the 7790. Here we see once again that SLI technology really helps to gain a significant boost in frame rate performance, as the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost SLI setup rendered 93.7fps. This meant that it was a whopping 47% faster than a single Radeon HD 7950 and 39% faster than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti....

I expected the Aero 15 to perform a little bit better than it did considering the size of the battery. Nevertheless, the Aero 15 performs significantly better than the ultra-slim GS63VR, and will comfortably beat most gaming laptops. It falls in the same range as a lower-tier ultraportable laptops, which isn’t a bad result considering the power inside.

Dirt 3 proved unchallenging for the Titan as it delivered a solid 93.4fps at 2560x1600, 35% faster than the GTX 680 and 26% faster than the 7970 GHz Edition, though it continued to trail behind the dual-GPU configurations by an average of 21% in the case of the HD 7950 Boost cards, 8% for the GTX 660 Ti in SLI and 3% for the HD 7870s. The Titan took only 12....

At the front of the Ultrabook is the Li-polymer (11.1V, 47.73Wh) battery which measures 210mm by 75mm and is just 10mm thick. Adjacent from the battery is a 2.5" hard drive. Our review unit came with the Toshiba MQ01ABD075, which is a 750GB, 5400-RPM, SATA II drive. Interestingly, the 2.5" hard drive is not screwed into the Ultrabook but rather it just sits in place inside a rubberized caddy which not only holds the drive but also reduces vibration and therefore noise....

Easing logistics issues and component shortages have helped manufacturers address backlogged orders, and many workers have since returned to the office. As a result, things are moving more smoothly. According to Counterpoint’s latest report, PC shipments dipped 4.3 percent year over year in Q2 2021 to reach 78.7 million units. Lenovo retained its position as the top global vendor based on shipments with 18.2 million units shipped. That’s down nearly 9....