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The GeForce GTS 450 struggled when testing with Just Cause 2 with an average of just 21fps at 1680x1050. Still this was enough to match the Radeon HD 5750 while remaining behind the Radeon HD 5770. The overclocked Palit GTS 450 Sonic Platinum provided an impressive 24% performance boost, which is the biggest and most useful jump we have seen so far. This increase put the GTS 450 Sonic Platinum card on level ground with the Radeon HD 5830....

Here we see that the GeForce GTX 1070 consumed only slightly more power than the 970 and 9% less than the 1080. This meant it consumed 28% less power than the Titan X and 28% less than the R9 390X. When monitoring the power consumption playing Black Ops III we see that the GTX 1070 consumed roughly the same amount of power as the 970. This meant it consumed 16% less than the 1080 and 27% less than the Titan X....

The GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon HD 5870 delivered virtually identical performance in this game, with a slight advantage going to the GeForce. The Radeon HD 5870 was 2fps slower when comparing both average and minimum frame rates, while both cards averaged over 60fps in our test. The battle between the Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce GTX 470 was far more one-sided, as the Radeon HD 5850 delivered on average 19% more performance, while the minimum frame rates were also consistently higher....

An average of 44fps meant that the GeForce GTX 980 Ti was able to deliver playable performance at 2160p using 2xMSAA in Battlefield Hardline which is impressive. This also meant that the GTX 980 Ti was 6% slower than the Titan X, but 26% faster than the GTX 980. Moreover the GTX 980 Ti was 38% faster than the Radeon R9 290X. Despite AMD having just released an updated driver (Catalyst 15....

MSI also sent along an Armor model which is expected to come in at a lower price, somewhere around the MSRP, but we’ll believe that when we see it. That’s not a dig at MSI but rather Nvidia’s mythical suggested retail prices. On paper, the GeForce RTX 2070 claims a $500 MSRP for board partner cards such as the MSI Armor and a less attractive $600 for the Nvidia FE model....

For those of you not up to speed, when Nvidia announced their latest GeForce 40 series, they did so with three products: the flagship RTX 4090, the RTX 4080 16GB and RTX 4080 12GB. The problem was that the two RTX 4080 variants were very different and those differences were not limited to memory capacity as the naming scheme was hinting. That’s because in order to cut down the memory capacity without using lower density chips, you also need to reduce the memory bus width....

Using Atto Disk Benchmark we can take a look at each drive’s read performance when working with 512K, 1KB, 2KB, 8KB, 32KB and 128KB file sizes. The Agility EX is vastly superior to the competition when working with small files, offering double the performance in the 512K, 1KB and 2KB tests. Once we reach 8KB the advantages of the Agility EX start to diminish. Here the drive only matches the Vertex’s performance, while for larger file sizes the Agility EX falls behind by a small margin....

It’s also interesting how the 240GB Vector 150 is slower than OCZ’s own 256GB Vertex 450 in all of our custom copy tests as well as PCMark 7, despite costing more at $1.00/GB versus $0.85/GB. That gap is partly closed by the fact that the Vector 150 offers 256-AES hardware encryption and 150% more writes than the original Vector. Even if we can’t test that claim, OCZ backs it up with a solid five-year warranty....

The OnePlus Nord series has featured models like the original Nord, Nord N10 and Nord 2, so it’s only reasonable to expect good things from its latest entry. OnePlus is sharing some of the phone specifications as the announcement date approaches via a dedicated website, so we should learn more about it in the coming days. For now, we know the new Nord will feature 65W SuperVOOC fast charging, a 3....

Thermal management is going to be more important than ever as PCIe 5 devices start hitting the market. Sebastien Jean, chief technical officer at Phison, discussed the situation in recent interviews with StorageReview and MSI Insider. “As the speed continues to go up with each new generation, our challenge will continue to be to manage the heat,” Jean said. As a general rule of thumb, Jean notes that each additional GB/s of speed an SSD delivers requires about one extra watt of power....

Virtually all media is now accessible digitally over the Internet, lessening our reliance on physical discs to the point that most new computer cases no longer accommodate 5.25-inch external drives. Discs aren’t gone entirely, however, and Pioneer’s latest offering caters to the last remaining holdouts. The new Pioneer BDR-213JBK is a versatile optical drive that’s compatible with a range of Blu-ray, DVD and CD formats and appears to have a nice brushed finish (at least on the tray)....

Sultim “sultim_t” Tsyrendashiev is back, adding real-time path tracing to id Software’s 1996 classic Quake. The mod’s initial reveal was a surprise addition to a trailer announcing a delay on the Half-Life 1 path tracing project in January. The new Quake mod is available on Tsyrendashiev’s GitHub and works with the original 1996 release and 2021 remaster. Tsyrendashiev based his project on vkQuake –a Vulkan conversion of QuakeSpasm. Users installing the Steam edition of Quake can quickly apply the mod by downloading and unzipping its archive and then running the vkQuake executable, which should automatically detect the Steam folder....

According to data provided by blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, ransomware revenues for 2022 have shrunk from $765.6 million to at least $456.8 million, or a -40.3% drop year-over-year. The volume of attacks is as impressive as ever, but the number of victims that refuse to pay the ransom has grown as well. Working with Coveware, Chainalysis has seen a sharp reduction in the number of ransomware victims willing to pay: they were 76% in 2019 but just 41% in 2022....

For those buying new our best choice in this price range is the Ryzen 5 2600X. It’s currently a mere $20 more than the non-X model and comes with a better cooler and more aggressive clock speeds out of the box. In this scenario we feel the small price premium is worth it. However, quite a few of you were wondering if the Ryzen 7 1700 was worth buying over the 2600X....

Samsung has also baked in its new Dual Vertical Transfer Gate (D-VTG) technology, which adds a second voltage transfer gate within each pixel to boost its full-well capacity by more than 33 percent. According to Sammy, this can reduce overexposure and enhance color reproduction in brightly light environments. The HP2 can also lean on all of its 200-million pixels as focusing aides for faster and more accurate auto-focusing, even in dimly lit scenes....

GtG response time is rated at 5ms, and both afford handy features like picture-in-picture and picture-by-picture. Buyers will also receive a height-adjustable stand with tilt, swivel and pivot adjustments. They are also Vesa wall mountable should you want to save some room on your desk. The monitor, a CES 2022 Innovation Award Honoree in the Computer Peripherals & Accessories category, features a variety of ports including a DisplayPort, an HDMI connection, a USB-C port, an Ethernet port, a headphone jack and a USB 3....

It believes disruptive solutions in patterning, architecture and materials will be instrumental in shrinking the process even further, with one example of forward-looking tech being High-K material that is already in development. Samsung has been iterating its V-NAND tech for a decade and has progressed through several generations. The juice is no doubt worth the squeeze as Samsung has realized 10 times the layer count and 15 times the bit growth through eight generations....

The Verge reports that law enforcement in Austin and San Antonio issued warnings over the holiday period after discovering a number of QR-code stickers appearing on parking meters. Click2houston posted a screenshot of the now-offline ‘Quick Pay Parking’ site that the codes lead to. While many people would likely recognize the suspicious site address and its very basic design as red flags, it’s likely that the scammer tricked at least a few people into handing over their details....

The 91-page complaint filed in US district court on Friday claims the social media companies are responsible for worsening the mental health of the children that they target. The tech giants are also blamed for rising rates of anxiety, depression, disordered eating, cyberbullying, self-harm, and suicide ideation. It’s led to schools hiring additional mental health professionals, developing lesson plans about the effects of social media, and providing additional training to teachers....

The tray supports Extended ATX motherboards and comes with four standoffs installed. There is an oversize cut-out in the tray which allows rear access to the motherboard for installation of large aftermarket CPU coolers. Additionally, you will find a number of holes in the tray for cable management. Silverstone allows to remove virtually every component within the FT04. This means the primary 3.5" hard drive cage can be removed, this requires undoing three screws....